Wednesday, 6 February 2013

New fly boxes in.

 Have had some new fly boxes in this week, made in a few woods.the three above made in Walnut just great looking boxes and colour,
 Frame walnut,
 Walnut again, these are £45.00 GBP each.
 The ones above, have a Beech frame. and covered in a rare Brazilian burr called Rio rose wood, lovely deep wood colours.
 Close up of the Rio rose wood box, these are 40.00 GBP each.
 The one above, is made with beech frame and lemon wood burr.
 The lemon wood box open, 30.00 GBP each




Above showing the corner of the boxes, with a contrasting wood lock. if you would like a box or two, just email me me your needs. sizes are 9" X 5" X 11/2", And have four rare earth magnets to keep boxes closed. 

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

A few from this week, 29.1.2013

 Above are a few zonker patterns, that i have been using for salmon last season. tied on 1" and 1/2" inch copper tubes, as we were having lots of water all last season. i was looking for a style of fly that would get down fast and be bright. these are thr patterns i came up with,
 Above, my take on the cascade, using a rabbit zonker wing. and on these i used protube plastic jungle cock cheeks, 1" copper tube
 And above, my take on the Junction shrimp. using the rabbit zonker wing, 1" copper tube.
 And above, 1/2" copper Junction shrimp,
 Above, a new look on the Elver fly, tied on a 1" copper tube. and blue dyed jungle cock elver,
 And above, my wire snake elver pattern. tied on a 23/4" snake mount,
 Above, the full set of elvers, which will be swimming the Tyne this coming season.
 Above, the Ice Maiden . tied on a 11/2" ally tube.
 A size 9 Ice Maiden,
 The set of Double Ice Maidens. on the way to Scotland as well,
 Set of Kinnermony killers, which are on there way to fish the spey.
 1" copper Kinnermony killer,
 Above, size 3 waddingtons, tied for a local angler. for the river Towy,
 Squirrel blue and silver,
 Black and orange,
 Black and red, the ever faithfull.
 And the one and only, black waddy.
Plus a set of my glow in the dark black snakes,  with the glow in the dark bead set above the hook. i have not posted all my ties, as i have done a lot of repeats of patterns.

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Some of this weeks flies.

 This week have been tying a lot, most of the ties are sewin patterns. and they are off to fish the rivers of north Wales, above some of my snake patterns. the ones on the left tied on wire mounts, and the ones on the right tied on 30lb mono braid.


 The three snake ties above, are 2" long.


 And the three mono snakes ties, are 11/2" long. the hair on them are Marble fox from Sue at Foxytails,
 Above, a set of Tyne toucans gone off to Scotland, ready for the start of season in Scotland. all ties are on size 6 Deercreek doubles,
 Orange Toucan,
 Red Toucan,
 Olive Toucan,
 Above a set of Waddingtons, and these are off to the Boarders to fish the rivers Tyne & Wear.
 Squirrel blue and silver,
 Black bear and orange silver fox,
 Wing and throat, black bear.
 And again, Black bear and red silver fox.
 Above, a set of the Medicine fly, these are for north Wales.
 Close up of the Medicine fly, all tied on a size 6 Deercreek single.
 Black and silver,
 The set of black and silver, again for north Wales.
 Teal blue and silver, Tied on Deercreek size 6 double.
The set of teal blue and silver.
Above the Dark Mackerel, again tied on the Deercreek size 6 single.
Above the set of three Dark Mackerel, for north Wales.
Above, the Kinermony Killer, tied on a copper tube. gone to Scotland to fish the river Spey,
The set of KMK tubes.
Secret weapon, tied with a burnt orange marble fox wing, my take on the medinice.
Squirrel blue and silver secret weapon, size 4 kamasan B175 and a size 12 treble.
Black and silver, secret weapon.
All the secret weapons, all ties on main hook B175 size 4 and size 12 treble.
.Above some of the flies, in a group shot. seasons coming close now and lots of orders coming in.