Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Tandem time

The last pattern was so much fun to tie, that I decided to make a tandem version. It takes some time to tie them, but I’m very satisfied with the result.



























They are all about 24 cm long, tied on Mustad salt water hooks. A 6/0 for the head, and a 5/0 for the trailer.




























Here I used to much black in the head, but I like the result nevertheless.





































Same here, I shouldn’t have mixed black with the yellow.That’s another lesson learnd.






































And the last one.

But more will follow…
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8 comments:

  1. David Romanillos25 January 2012 at 17:48

    Like the others ..., simply the best.
    Greetings

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  2. Piketeaser26 January 2012 at 16:25

    The black/purple is.....not just nice,it´s stunning.A killer.
    So is also the black/white.
    What feathers do you use?Haven´t seen anything like that.

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  3. the lonsome piker26 January 2012 at 19:13

    David, thanks!

    Hello Djuza, thanks!
    It depends on what colour you mean. The white feathers are American Rooster Saddles from Whiting,
    the orange/grizzly ones are Dyed Grizzly Saddles from Hareline Dubbin,
    but all of the others are Magnum #2 Saddles from Metz.

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  4. Rich28 January 2012 at 22:37

    Love the tandem flies, they are a work of art, It would be a shame to fish with them...:o)

    Are those eyes the roach eyes I sent you?

    Cheers...>Rich

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  5. Xavier C.29 January 2012 at 13:47

    Hello Stefaan
    Ils sont juste trop beaux !!!
    Je n'arrive toujours pas à ton résultat sur la tête !!!! il y a un truc .... je cherche toujours !!
    Bravo encore à toi
    Xavier

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  6. the lonsome piker29 January 2012 at 17:34

    Hello Rich, it’s good to hear from you again and thanks for the nice words. And no, they’re not your eyes. These are simple silver epoxy eyes, which I coloured with regular permanent markers or Prismacolor markers. This works very well, the colours never come off.

    Salut Xavier, merci bien ! les têtes ici ne sont pas comme ‘the lonesome tom’, ça c’était 4x4 touffes de ploypropylene, ici c’est 6x6 touffes. Alors le truc : prend votre temp.

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  7. Rich29 January 2012 at 20:31

    That is a brilliant idea with the marker pens. The only ones I have are pro markers which are alchol based so they might react with the varnish....

    Cheers.....Rich

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  8. the lonsome piker1 February 2012 at 22:36

    Rich, I wouldn’t worry to much about the combination of varnish and alcohol based markers. First of all, I colour these eyes before I glue them in. If you put varnish on them afterwards, then you’ll have a problem. But markers on your varnish is no problem at all. For example, I usually tie my flies with white thread, so the place where you tie off (at the hook eye), the thread is visible and usually has a different colour than the rest of your fly. So I always colour that bit with a marker, after I’ve put some varnish on, and I’ve never had a problem with it (the varnish has to be dry of course).

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