Woven Tenkara Flies

July 4 Flies

Freestyle flies for July 4

Okefenokee Swamp Sally

Recipe

Hook - Partridge #2 Dry Fly

Thread - Uni-thread 8/0 (Red)
Body - Wapsi Chennile (Red and Yellow)

Head and Wings - Rooster Hackle (Yellow)

This is a traditional fly used in the Okefenokee Swamp in South Georgia
to catch Fliers, Warmouth, Bass, and sometimes Jackfish (Chain Pickeral) 
and Mudfish (Bowfin).

Irish Wet Flies

Recipe

Hook - Size 8 Wet Fly

Thread - Veevus 16/0 (Brown)

Tail - Ring Necked Pheasant Tail (Natural)
Rib - Wapsi UTC Size - Brassie (Silver)
Hackle - Rooster (Various Colors)

Body - Angora Goat (Various Colors)
Throat - Hen Hackle (Various Colors)
Collar - Chuckar (Various Colors)

Mini Scott Wet Fly (Freestyle)

Wet flies using similar materials as a fully dressed Jock Scott

(my own design)

Recipe
Hook - Size 6
Thread - UNI-thread 8/0 (Light Cahill)
Tag - Extra Fine Oval Tinsel
Tail - Golden Pheasant Crest
Body - Japanese Silk Floss (Yellow and Black)
Rib - Fine Oval Tinsel (Silver)
Veiling - Dyed CDC (Yellow)
Throat - Hen Hackle (Grizzly)
Wing - Goose Shoulder (Blue, Red, and Yellow, Turkey Tail
and Kori Bustard - married together
Sides - Jungle Cock Nails
Head - Sharpie (Black) and Loon Hard Head Cement

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Classic Trout Wet Flies

Classic Trout Wet Fly (my own designs)

Recipe

Hook - #8 wet fly

Thread - Uni-thread 8/0 (Black)
Tail - Goose Shoulder (Yellow and Orange)

Body - Uni-Floss  (Orange)
Rib - Oval Tinsel - Small (Silver)
Throat - Keough Hen Hackle (Blue)
Wing - Goose Shoulder and Kori Bustard (Yellow, Orange, and Red)
Sides - Jungle Cock Nail 

Black and White Wet Fly

Recipe

Hook - #14 Wet Fly

Thread - Uni-thread 8/0 (Black)

Tail - Golden Pheasant Tippet

Body - Danville Floss (Black)

Rib - Small Tinsel (Silver)

Throat - Hen Saddle (Black)

Wing - Duck Quill (White)

Soft Hackle Fly

Soft Hackle Fly. #12 hook. No name. Just made 

it up in a few minutes.

Recipe
Hook - Umpqua #12 Nymph
Thread - Uni-Thread 6/0 (White / Sharpied Brown)
Tail - Whiting Coq de Leon Hen Saddle (Natural)
Rib - Brassie UTC Wire (Red)
Body - Touch Dubbing (Adams Gray)
Throax - Wapsi SLF Squirrel Blend (Rusty Brown / Blood Red)
Hackle - Whiting Coq de Leon Hen Saddle (Natural)

Cruncher

Cruncher. #10 hook.

Tenkara Fly (with and without a vise)

Takayama Sakasa Kebari. #14 hooks. One tied with a vise

and one tied without a vise. Pattern is from the

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