post your flies

[Joel Eadie]

not sure how successful this thread will be as i dont know how many fly fishos there are out there but thought it would be a good idea to share patterns that you tye/have bought

ive still got much to learn and am lacking much of the gear eg clamp so sorry some are a bit dodgy.

admitadly i am yet to catch my first salt water fish on flies, its so hard to give the fly rod a go when plastics work so well (i have had success on toga). but when i do these are the puppies that will go out first.

my favorite clouser

[Joel Eadie]

random clousers and a zonker strip fly

[Joel Eadie]

a resin head with feather tail (resin=glue gun glue)

popper

bought poper

[Joel Eadie]

i bought this one but its an awesome surface fly

[Joel Eadie]

show us yours

and feel free to tell me where i failed

[mick fillet]

hey there cool

I reckon some of the smaller ones would work great used as the hooks on a bait jig aswell.

[tomca]

this one is deadly on the GT's in the Coomera

[tomca]

The shrimp pattern at the top has worked well in fresh and salt for obvious reasons.

Second one has caught plenty of pike and a few bream as well.

Third one is a flattie magnet and has caught a couple of solid bass out of Marron and Boondooma dams

The last one hasn't had a swim yet, but I am confident it will tick snapper off my fly caught list very soon

[tomca]

My fly collection....so far. I haven't tied any for a while, nor would I be as hard core as some of the guys I have fished with. They will pull over and pillage feathers and fur off random road kill to add to their fly tying stock :X

[jeff f]

hey tomca a friend of mine got fined for having parts(wing of a tawny frogmouth) of a protected species that he took from road kill for fly tying.

apparently you cant even take parts of roadkill if it is a protected species

so he was treated as if he had killed it

[ellicat]

So take a seat on the couch and tell us more about this "friend" jeff ... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[nadders]

cheers for the nightmares brian, whats the story jeff lol

[Angus]

nadders wrote:

cheers for the nightmares brian, whats the story jeff lol

Hahahaha. I remember this well.

AFO charter off the goldie. We were onto a good patch of dollies but jeff caught that bird.

Dont be fooled by the mean face, youll note the hands on the nect are actually being very gentle (Jeff ya big softy). It took him a good bit of patience to unravel the line from the bird.

Angus

[jeff f]

bloody mutton bird

yeah the stupid thing tied itself up good and propper

it happily flew away after 10 minutes of removing 50lbs braid and 60lbs leader from around it and taking the hook out of it's throat