Hi Don,
many thanks, inspires me to move from dry flies to nymphs... <G>
2 points:
1. With the rope dubbed nymph: How do they sink? I feel (from
experience), that the rope dub catches air, and this prevents the fly to
sink, good for dry, tricky for nymphs.
2. Do you know skip morris interbreed of a hear's ear and a pheasant
tails nymph? Would be a good add on to your list
Rene
On 04/30/2011 06:49 PM, Don Ordes wrote:
Here's today's tying article- simple-to-do hare's mask tying. Long
time since we've had any traffic on the VFB other than weather and
swaps. Here goes:
The photo below shows 7 options for hare's mask flies. They are all
rope-dubbed, using no loops or wax, on 2# test clear & smoke mono
tying thread. This is how I tie them- your methods may vary. You may
try this at home- no adult supervision required.
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/Dubbing:/(@ right) finger-blended, spikey hare's mask dubbing, with
chopped (1/4") fine gold flashabou dubbing to give it the gold sparkle
underwater, replacing the rib.
Hare's mask cheek for tails and wings or soft hackles.
Fly #1. Dubbing roped-dubbed on as a brush with guard hair tips as
hackles.
Fly #2. Body rope-dubbed with cree saddle hackle roped in with the
dubbing, not palmered after. This does not allow the fish teeth to cut
the hackle = durable. Note that the hackles are dispersed throughout
the dubbing.
Fly #3. Tailed heavy-body hair?s ear with soft wing- photo doesn?t
show segments as much as there are. Typical for all. Also, don't
over-do the gold. Look at them underwater to see if you have the right
proportion for the sparkle you want.
Fly #4. Larger segmented hare's ear with squirrel wing.
Fly #5. Smaller slim-bodied hare's ear, more classic wet-style, with
gold bead and squirrel wing.
Fly #6. Smaller classic winged hare's ear nymph with turkey round tail
and wing-casing, using wing-casing tips folded back for legs.
Segmented abdomen shows up well in the water.
Fly #7. Classic soft-hackle hare's ear, but using a pearl underbody
and gap-wrapping a very fine rope of hare's mask tips so that the
pearl shines through. Partridge soft hackles.
Photo below shows some un-finished hare's mask rope-dubbed bodies with
a large proportion of the spikey hairs blended in, with most of the
under-hairs removed. I cut a lot of short, spikey hair from the ears
and blended that in with the mask dubbing from between the eyes. They
have segmentation, but it's very hard to see with the camera. Any of
these flies can be followed up with gold ribbing wire in the crease of
the segment, but I don't find a difference in the effectiveness if I
have the gold flash blended in.
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Nothing I do is a rule, recipe, or goal- it's just the way I do them,
and I'm always experimenting to make flies simpler and faster to tie
and more appealing to the fish. Tying these on a wire core would make
the flies heavier and even more durable.
Since this is about hare's ear, I've left it at that. One way to get
even spikier hare's ear nymphs is to blend squirrel-mask hairs with
your dubbing- about 50/50 does it up dandy.
DonO
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