My Fly Tying room and a few flies.

 Above is my tying desk, and as you can see, my studio that i use to take the photos of my flies. with the blue back ground set in the tying desk,

 Above, are the cabinet's were i keep most of the materials. aswell as in the tying desk draws,

 A view of my tying books, and some new fly boxes. i had made for myself, will post some photos of them at a later date.

 And another shot of the cabinet tops, all the units are made of Oak. i am very lucky that my mate is a very good cabinet maker,

 We have had some low water, but did have a lift the other day. not much of one so tied up some wee cascades for myself on size 15s partridge salars,

 Also been tying again, for an angler in north Wales. tied up these Jambo wake lures, i also love using these lures. great fun fishing these lure on the top, and seeing the Sewin coming in to take these. also the salmon love them,These are tied with Deerhair body and black bear tail and silver/red flash.

 The six that he wanted, tied on a size 4 Kamasan B175. and a size 12 treble stinger in the rear,

 Plus he wanted a dozen, of my Ghost shrimp. this fly fishes well on dusk, and the fish take them very hard. 

 The full set of Ghosts,

 Plus still in big demand, the Toucan. i have now tied over a 1450 of these flies,

Well still tying, the only thing i am having repeat orders. and tying same patterns all the time, but i am trying to top up my own boxes.my new boxes that my mate John, who made my units in my tying room.  to get out after the sewin. we had a lift of water on the river Towy and i will be out for sure tomorrow day and into the dark, there are a few fish there. so let hope they are up for a few of my flies,  

Wee Cascade's.

Here are a few cascade's i tied up this week, for an angler up in Aberdeen Scotland. he wanted 36 flies in sets of 12, all tied on Partridge salar doubles. in sizes 15s / 13s and 11s.

 The three sizes, on the head of my vise,

 Above size 15,

 And size 13,

 Plus size 11,

 The full set of thirty six cascade doubles,

   Close up of the group, well the season has started. hope to get out over the weekend, if the weather holds up.

Shrimps alive,

 Yesterday afternoon and this morning, i had to tie up some shrimp patterns of mine and some old ones. to go to north Wales, the badger shrimps are patterns i tied up some years back. and have worked well on a lot of waters, above is my ghost shrimp when in the water being worked it looks amazing. and the fish love it to have had Sewin / Salmon and Bass on this one.

 Above is the Ginger shrimp, works well on clearing water or peaty water.

 The red shrimp, take fish early and late in the season.

 Group shot of the Ghost shrimp,

 Group shot Ginger shrimp,

 Group shot the Red shrimp,

 Standard Ally shrimp, with Black& Red body,

 And above, one i use a lot with orange holographic body. does change this one in the water,

 Ally's of both colours above,

 And of cause the Tyne Toucan, this fly is still in big demand. i have now tied over 1300 of these in the last four weeks,

And above, the full set of Toucan's, ready for a fly to north Wales. with the rest of the flies,

Blue Charm's and guess what.

 Set of Blue charms, ready to go to Tyne & Wear for a swim. Made a mistake on size in the photo, the 7 should be 9.

 Size 7 Blue charm,

 Size 13 Blue Charm,

 Size 11 Blue Charm,

 Here is a new one, Orange tube Toucan. since i started tying the orange toucan, they have gone very well.

 Black Toucan, size 9,

 Orange Toucan size 9,

Hi, Been tying today, had a bit of a change of flies. tying some blue charms and guess what, yes Toucans again but will say over the last month. i have been tying them ever day now,

Single's

Been trying to tie up a few flies for myself, ready for the season which starts 1st April. can't wait to get on the river after those sewin, plus the bass are starting to show. my mate had a lovely fish of 11lb 12oz about 10days ago, when they are in numbers will be after them on a fly. 

Above, the sunburst Toucan.

 Black toucan,

 Orange toucan,

 Red Toucan,

 Group shot,

And the Cascade, all these flies tied on DEER-CREEK single hooks. size 6,

The Toucan are still being asked for by the ton, coming up to near 1000 flies tied now. 

But have started catching up on my tubes and snake flies, will post them soon along with my new fly boxes i have had made. 

Welsh Fly Fair show, Saturday 3rd March.

The weekend, Saturday 3rd of March, was the Welsh fly fair show. a great day was had by all from what i could see. lots of smiling faces, and guys meeting up and having a good chat catching up over a drink . And also topping up on there fly tying materials.

 Well known angler and writer Moc Morgan.

 Gareth Lewis, very well known tier, of micro flies.

 Dewi William, Well known for his Irish Mayfly patterns.

 Peter Jones, another fine sewin angler who fishes the river Ti.

 Well what can i say about this chap, top sewin / salmon angler.  the one and only John Graham the jambo man.

 Malcolm Edwards, another fine small fly tier.

 David Wolsoncroff-Dodds, Well known for his pike flies.

 Emyr Breeze, fine tier of competition flies and fisher.

 And yours truly, Dai Jones,

 Cooks Hill, A fine supplier of fly tying materials.

Looking down the Hall, towards, John Williams celtic fly craft. who run the show.