What have you tied today?

[Lochan_load]

Cheers     rounding off with this, I've seen it listed as a grey ghost bumble but it's just a Kate variant,  I think the grey mallard improves the original  :worried
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[Tyro]

Hopefully Atkins Badger after reading manual for camera and FAQ for forum!

[rannoch raider]

Every one a belter ! You've got the tying mojo back then Andy !  Never heard of the Atkins Badger but you've done a nice job of it Len.

[Tyro]

Rannoch Raider
The Atkin's Badger although not mentioned in my copy of The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Salmon and Steelhead Flies is in a great wee book I came across recently called A Practical Guide to Tying Salmon and Sea Trout Flies which is available via the Solihull Flydressers website. The book even comes with a DVD copy of all the flies and a number of You Tube videos showing various techniques. Most of the videos are by Davy McPhail but also a very good tyer known as Oneflyman. Highly recommended for about £13.
All I have to do now is catch a salmon!

Len

[Lochan_load]

Love the badger, wee bit different.
I had my mojo back but my wife's pals are coming for the bells so all my tying stuffs away til next year   :lol:

[rannoch raider]

We've had a toddling grand daughter over since Christmas until new year so I'm barred from 'messing the place up with hooks and feathers' until normality returns  :roll:

[Wildfisher]

An orange shrimp. it has 2 rear paddles, the other is round the other side.  :lol:

A dead easy and quick tie, I'll knock up a few less garish ones for Espana.   :

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[Wildfisher]

Incidentally, I made the eyes, 2 minutes using these glass beads I got on Ebay for pennies, nylon and UV resin. A mix of glass beads and rods with all kinds of possibilities. It's extraordinary the range of  cheap "fly tying" materials these sewing suppliers have.   :

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[Lochan_load]

I saw the 'proper' glass bead eyes last time I was in GAC, ridiculous price!

[Wildfisher]

That pack of 500 mixed cost 0.99 with a further 0.90 P&P     :