A few more bumbles

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Here's another couple of bumbles, inspired again by the Modern Traditional articles;

Rooksy Bumble (I don't have any blue grizzle hen so use Guinea fowl instead)


Rooksy Bumble
Hook: B175 #10
Tail: GP topping
Rib: Fine gold wire
Body: Golden olive seals fur
Body Hackles: Golden olive and orange
Head Hackle 1: Mallard shoulder
Head Hackle 2: Guinea fowl

and a Sooty olive, that I 'hotted' up a bit in both dubbing and hackle, maybe a little too much.

Sooty Bumble
Hook: B175 #10
Tag: Gold tinsel
Rib: As tag
Body: Sooty olive with a pinch of hot olive
Body Hackles: Sooty olive & Hot olive
Head Hackle: Grizzle Hen


Comments greatfully received as usual.
Cheers - Steve

[irishflies]

Steve,
Really like these patterns,very neatly tied.Would certainly give them a swim.
Whats the ingredients.

[savage take]

quality my good man quality.

[sage fan]

That ****** won,t sink, nice flies all the same. Have you got any other colour partridge to try on the front, might look even better.

[irishflies]

Another way to get blue jay sub is to dye grizzle saddle hackles 'kingfisher blue',turns out real nice though.

[maharg]

The Rooksy Bumble is astonishing!!!!!!!!
Top drawer

[A. Fluker]

Super ties - well done.

Question

What macro/lighting lens do you use?

[Old Jock]

Amazing looking flies . I particularaly like that blue grizzle hackle . Great stuff

[silversedge]

Quality again Steve

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Thanks for all the comments lads,

Loopy, my lighting setup is a combination of these two threads;

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying-forum/61660-one-photography-dabbler-nerds.html
http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying-forum/54300-cameras-2.html (scroll down a bit)
The cameras nothing special, I got it off the forum classifieds for about £60. I'm certainly no expert, everything I know about photography has been learned from Scratch and a website called flyartstudio.
All the best - Steve