At The Bench

[WaterSkeeter]

Been stocking up for summer, with my 1 week on 1 week off schedual im planning on doing allot of travelling to my fvorite and new spots to fish, hopefully meet some of you.

heres some simple but effective patterns iv been tying up.

and D6Dan, some of these patterns I have tied for you to, will be on there way soon. the rest are a surprise lol

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1593.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1591.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1583.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1575.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1556.jpg

[WaterSkeeter]

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1554.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1553.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1548.jpg

[Spy]

Nice Buggers I like the color coding Im sure they will al catch fish nice job.:-D

[WaterSkeeter]

Nice Buggers I like the color coding Im sure they will al catch fish nice job.:-D

oh I KNOW they all catch fish, im restocking my box, I lose more to other fly fishers then I do to fish LOL

[Laurence_Erickson]

very nice looking bugs ,water skeeter. :) The black and red ,is the bead orange on that one??

[WaterSkeeter]

very nice looking bugs ,water skeeter. :) The black and red ,is the bead orange on that one??

thank you, the beads are "hot red" but always look orange in pictures.

[Spy]

oh I KNOW they all catch fish, im restocking my box, I lose more to other fly fishers then I do to fish LOL

Ill bet you loose allot thy look great.:-D

[WaterSkeeter]

heres a few more, if anyone would like the recipe to any of them give me a shout.

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1605.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1602.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1599.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1595.jpg

[WaterSkeeter]

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1611.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1606.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1610.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1603.jpg

[Wood butcher]

Nice flies!!

[Ruger4]

Skeeter , awesome flys , wow , truly an art

[frenchbar]

Those look awesome skeeter!

[Chuck]

Seems to me, fishing the dry fly (which I prefer) has become a thing of the past. Due to the recent (imo) transition to more sub-surface fly fishing with patterns such as these, the poor fish are getting a real s kicking year round. Old buggers with fiberglass rods, like me, just can't keep up anymore. Ha ha! Can't keep the hands warm anymore either.

[WaterSkeeter]

Seems to me, fishing the dry fly (which I prefer) has become a thing of the past. Due to the recent (imo) transition to more sub-surface fly fishing with patterns such as these, the poor fish are getting a real s kicking year round. Old buggers with fiberglass rods, like me, just can't keep up anymore. Ha ha! Can't keep the hands warm anymore either.


Heck no, dry flyfishing is the best, I love it, ill post some dryflys later on.

[d6dan]

Nice looking flies Waterskeeter..You have talent :-D.

[BillyBull]

Those are great looking bugs... are you mix and matching weighted options in all of them or generally using the same weighted recipe and working the retrieve and drags.

[WaterSkeeter]

Those are great looking bugs... are you mix and matching weighted options in all of them or generally using the same weighted recipe and working the retrieve and drags.

Some dragons I posted are bulked up with deer hair so they don't actually sink right to the bottom, or sink very very slow. Other then that I just work the retrieve rate and action depending on the depth and what I'm imitating

[srupp]

exellent flies WELL DONE...

STEVEN

[Cdn-Redneck]

I need to start tying again. I haven't tied for about 15 years. The new materials look so much more life like now.

[WaterSkeeter]

I need to start tying again. I haven't tied for about 15 years. The new materials look so much more life like now.


There is alot out there now but I try and keep it as traditional as I can. You can buy plastic heads, premade realistic bug legs etc etc Im not for that kind of stuff. I make my own out of wire or rubber or other materials. You can only go so far before it becomes something that a gear fisher would use.

[WaterSkeeter]

These patterns here, I kid you not, were deadly Last year. They caught me bulls, rainbows, brook, grayling, whitefish, anything and everything in lakes, creeks and rivers. I was having a hard time on one lake last summer as it was +30 out and the fish were not moving. Threw on the green one and started nailing them. They are a couple of my go-to patterns.

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1623.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af77/WaterSkeeter87/DSCF1614.jpg

[darrin6109]

great job!