Golden olive bumble

[jonnied17-2008]

with all these lovely looking bumbles on the forum of late that were making me druel uncontrolably, I had to have a go myself. So here goes, my first golden olive bumble. all comments welcome, good or bad

I used a special blend of seals fur and red ice dub for the body, I think its got a nice glow to it. Tell me what you think.



had a mess around with the lighting on this shot, the hackle really glows;

[sweenytodd]

Mate you can tie but you really need to start taking daylight shots to do your flies justice and maybe put a camera on your christmas list

[jonnied17-2008]

thanks mate I would love to get a decent camera just aint got the money at the mo, but I will deffo upgrade when I get the chance! most of me tying is done late evening/past midnight will give it a go in the day tomorrow

[squeeks]

Yay, let's all tie bumbles

cracking fly mate!

[t1978d]

Did you use partidge for the head hackle? It's hards to see the colors but it looks very neat.

[jonnied17-2008]

sorry about the pic it was a light olive partridge hackle, from cookshill, the hackle was a metz grade 2 saddle in irish golden olive from ruthvenflyfisher (gerry), a wee pearl tinsel tag, nat. G.P. topping for the tail and gold oval for the rib.

[Steve_C]

Originally Posted by jonnied17-2008

thanks mate I would love to get a decent camera just aint got the money at the mo, but I will deffo upgrade when I get the chance! most of me tying is done late evening/past midnight will give it a go in the day tomorrow

Try a "daylight" bulb in ya desk lamp, I use them and find they are great for tying with and the odd piccie, I too tend to tie more late evenings and having swapped from standard to daylight bulbs is definately much better - a little too much better really as now I can see the mistakes in my creations!

good lookin' fly by the way!

Steve

[jonnied17-2008]

thanks for that steve, do you only use a desk lamp to light yer flies for pics? for this shot I had two main room lights focused over the area and a wee lamp with a shade on held near the fly,

[jonnied17-2008]

any other comments gents? any more camera tips would be great!

[jonnied17-2008]

tried danny's and steves tips, this is what I have come out with;



any better?

a JC claret bumble to go with too;