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…
But more will follow…
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Like the others ..., simply the best.
Greetings
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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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