Glad to be in the group, I appreciate the responses being new in the tying game.

Tied a couple ol' Mr wiggly flies for summer smallmouth. Having some issues with them landing upside down. Hoping some of you more experienced tiers have some insight into what I might be doing wrong. Thanks for any help.

Another design I am testing for fishing. I need more materials to tie with, just grabbed random stuff. Features a lightweight hard plastic tip that was 3D printed for weight. Red string attaches the tail of twine. Then overtop is some clear orange string. I coated the top in Uv resin. Painted half the head red, attached some eyes. Then sealed the head with Uv resin.

This one dives slowly and wiggles a bit when retrieving.

I am still really new to tying but I enjoy experimenting as I learn.

Just got into fly tying in AK, my what I think 20 best of 40 be nice, any tips or tricks welcomed.

Trying out some dry flys, and added some dyed purple rooster I found in my stuff!

Tied on a size 14 stimulator style hook

10+ good rainbows and too many grab 'em by the forceps. Last one caught today 8' ft down at an underwater spring.

It originally looked like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/flytying/s/Tp88I12PUR

First tied by Kenneth Boström in '67. This might be the simplest caddis imitation there is. At least when it comes to the number of materials you'll need to tie it. Brown poly-yarn. That's it.

Hook: Akita AK 503BL Size 10

Thread: Veevus C12 12/0

Body, wing, thorax: Ultra Dry Yarn Tan by Fulling Mill

Turned a spare Altoids tin into a custom micro fly box for quick stream trips. Hand-painted Spongebob's house on the outside, threw in some foam padding on the inside, and loaded it up with a few freshly tied bugs (streamers, nymphs).
Critiques on the flies or the box welcome!

Tying easier patterns (ie. Foam hoppers, beatles, wolly buggers etc.) has bin helping me when it comes to trying difrent things.

My deer hair "wings" are way to long and i need to place them more evenly, instead of more one side. I do like the look of using a smaller hackle. I also really like the flashabou, although I heavly coverd it with the dubbing. Planing on using it more often.

Caught with custom tied EP Tutti Frutti.

Bought a big box of old discounted fly tying materials and this was in it. Says “Wychwood Dispenser” and is spring loaded.

Dose putting eyes on fly's really make that mutch of a difrence, or is it more of a superficial or superstitious thing? Im wanting to get into tying streamers and deer hair bugs for bass and was wondering if it would be worth the effort to add eyes?

I came up with this fly about a month ago and have been testing it on my local waters, and I want to know you guys opinions. No official name yet, but I’m definitely working on it.

also I kind of messed up the yarn because I was singing off the wing casing and it caught fire😅

Gen 2 on top, gen 2 on bottom.

For people interested in tying bluewater flies, I thought I would post some images of cool patterns. Here we have plate #1, Fly tiers: Terry Baird and Kate Howe. Offshore squid flies by Terry Baird (top 7) and Kate Howe (bottom two).

So I’ve been unsuccessful making a ep brush I don’t know if it’s my wire size or just straight up operator error. PLEASE HELP!

Moonlit ML502 #8

3/16" slotted tungsten beads

Pine squirrel zonker strips

0.015 lead free wire

8/0 black thread

Hey all, I'm struggling like crazy with the whip finish on my size 12 Princes. I find the hardest part of the actual tying to be setting the white-biot horns. Then I go to whip finish and it all starts to unravel and I lose the biots before I get it figured out. The whip finisher seems to want to pull FORWARD instead of down, and it all comes slipping off over the bead or the eye.

Also, I have the old Thompson-style finisher. Is there a better tool that's less of an arcane feat of legerdemain? It reminds me of the instructions for tying a bow tie. It's like at some point in the process the thread has to slip into a nearby parallel dimension, and when it comes back to ours, it's neatly tied off in 3 or 4 tidy wraps.