I'm not the greatest when it comes to spun deer hair and more ends.up on the table than the hook but I've just knocked these up





More practice needed but hopefully they should raise a few hits come spring

look a lot better than my efforts!
Do you find these colours outfish others?
As with everything I realise there are many components but I struggle with bright colours on all the waters I fish..although the pike on the same waters will take brightly coloured lures ( spinners etc)

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Eagles may soar high....but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!

I can normally raise a few fish, I've got standard deer hair mice in brown if not

You can buy a little tool that pushes the deer hair up to get a tighter look?

However, yours will catch plenty of fish, but the heads will soon fill with water and may sink, and fall apart in the pike teeth quicker. All you need is to get the deer hair a little tighter and the flies will be perfect.

Well done on a first attempt.

Not flies I have ever tied but they look delicious to me.

they will catch plenty ive seen bad shaped lures catch better than perfect ones great stuff keep tying and ill keep an eye out for them


phil

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stop buying bottled water we have,nt got enuff to fish in now so stop it get the water companies to do there job and clean the water every where!!!!

Hi Mart.

Not bad heads those. Practice, practice, and more practice. That's the way to improve. To give you a start, try and get hold of a book : Bass Bug Basics by John M. Likakis (ISBN 0-88150-613-3). This book gives you "Simple Techniques for tying Deer Hair Flies" and is full of very good advice.

Frithy

They were first attempts, I don't have a brassie hair packer so used a pen lid instead.

A second attempt



I posted this in the fly tying section but it was an experiment and a bit more practice.



A few more froggy patterns next and a few with weed guards

Hi mart
Looking good, old lipstick tubes make good hair stackers
Just don't let the missus catch ya

Chris