Saturday 9 April 2011

Fly tying sessions

Had another long tying session today trying to get the hang of tying with turkey biots. I cant thanks gareth Lewis enough for his article here, http://www.ffisw.com/?p=7557, which really helped me get to grips with tying them in properly for the desired effect.

Anyway here are my efforts, not in the same league as his but I am relatively happy with them, any criticisms or suggestions? How many of you tie with turkey biots and what sort of flies do you use them for?

Olive paradun, probably the messiest fly i tied today but it floats really well in the glass of water test and i like the effect on the abdomen so thought i would share.
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Tying the biot in the other way round results in the heavily segmented body seen in this CDC dun, not sure which i prefer?!
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really liked the effect it created on the bodies above so decided to whack it on a buzzer. Was happy with the effect, the biots seemed to glow in the bright sunlight.
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Cheers for reading
Dan
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4 comments:

  1. e.m.b.9 April 2011 at 16:21

    I really like the look of your Olive paradun...and I don't think fish mind "messy"...cheers!

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  2. Dustin's Fly Box11 April 2011 at 00:20

    I really like the last one. Great job!

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  3. Nicholas Steedman11 April 2011 at 10:55

    Cracking flies Dan, where did you purchase your Biots from out of interest? Nick

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  4. Dan Price12 April 2011 at 13:15

    Cheers for the comments peeps, the biots came from the Orvis store (Burford if any of you are over in Oxfordshire lol) in BWO colour. Gotta stop going into those shops, they seem to magically drain my bank account!

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