Rabbit zonker strip, salmon fly step by step.

 First place tube in vice, here i am using a 1" inch copper tube.

 Now we catch in the tying thread, here i am using Danville 140 denier white.

 Now i have tied in the rib, oval medium gold.

 Here you can see, i have mixed up some bucktail. in orange and yellow to use as as the tail ,

 Now i have cleaned up the unwanted bucktail, and tied in some gold Krystal flash.

 Now i have tied in gold holographic tinsel, for the body.

Now above i have run the tinsel, down the body to the tail. and back up to the head of the tube, and wound on the oval tinsel rib.

 Now its time for the wing, these days we have a great range of colours to use.

 Now we tie in the wing, tie in the zonker strip. with the flow of the rabbit hair,

 Now i have trimmed the zonker strip, to the length i want.

 Now i tie in the first hackle, i have used a whiting hen cape dyed yellow over white.

 Above, i have wound on the first hackle.

 Now it's time to tie in the head hackle, this time it is dyed hot orange.

 Here you can see the head hackle wound on,

 Now i have tied in some Jungle cock cheeks, but i have used Prosport plastic JC.

 Above i have tied off the thread, and as you can see. i have change from white to orange 70 denier size,

 And above, i have put in a lining tube. and varnished the head of fly, this is my take on the cascade.

 And above, i have tied this fly in orange.

 And above, my take on the Junction shrimp.

And above, all three colours together. please give these a go the patterns have lots of movement,

Salmon snake fly, step by step.

 This is a fly i use a lot, when the river is running with a bit of water. i am not one for using a spinning rod, just love to fly fish. and by using a large fly fish will pick it up better than a small one, the fly is tied on plastic coated wire used for craft work. like bead work, and you can tie very large flies but being very light to cast with a fly rod.   

 Above, You can see i have doubled over the wire to the length of the fly i want. and then melted the plastic coating together, it is a very strong weld and i have done pull tests on it. to over 60lb without it pulling apart, so as you can see its a very strong fly.

 Above, you can see the mount ready to take the body covering, i will use mylar tubing.

 Above is the mylar i will be using, you can get it in hobby craft shops. 

 Now i thread the mylar on a threading tool, the tool is used a lot in carp fishing. for threading bait on hook,

 Now i have threading the mylar on the mount,

 After threading on mylar, i will tie it on over the hook shank.

 Above is the flash i am using for the tail of fly,

 Now tie in the flash,

 Now fold back, the forward part of flash.

 Now i will coat the thread, with Deercreek UV resin.

 Close up of the tail.

 Now i mount the snake fly, i mount in my snake fly vise.

 Now i tie in the first hackle, i am using a Whiting yellow saddle.

 Here i have wound on the hackle,

 Hackle is trimmed,

 Now i get ready to tie in the first wing,

 The color is golden yellow,

 Above the first wing is tied in,

 Now i am going to tie in some hot yellow flash.

 Above, the flash is tied in.

 Now i tie in the next part of the wing, using hot orange.

 Now i tie in the wing topping, black.

 Now i need more flash,

 The flash i have used to top off, is rainbow.

 Now its time to tie in the front hackle, again i have used a Whiting saddle in hot orange.

 Now i tie in some jungle cock, i have used on this tie soft plastic ones.

 Above the fly in vise, all i need to do now is coat the head.

And above, the finished snake fly. i use these a lot on the river Towy and catch a lot of fish on them, plus my mates have done very well on the as well.

Cascade, step by step.

 This is another fly, that i always have in my fly box. like the Ally shrimp it just seams to catch on every river it go's on, here i am tying the fly on a size 6 double which i get off Deercreek fishing tackle.

 Now catch in the tying thread, i am using Danville 6/0 70 denier black.

 Now i tie in the butt,oval tinsel size medium,

 Now as you can see, i have wound on the butt and just taken a few turns of thread to hold in place.

 Here i have taken the tinsel, back down the shank between the hooks. the reason for this is to wrap the rib,

 Here i have bucktail mixed for the tail of fly, orange and yellow.

 I like the tail to be about two, to two and a half times the length of hook shank.

 Above you can see, that i have trimmed the unwanted material. and tied in some orange krystal flash,

 Now i have tied in some silver holographic tinsel,for the rear part of the body.

 And then you can see, i have used the black tying thread. for the forward part of body, and now you can see i have brought  the oval tinsel back in to play. by winding on a rib over the both parts of the body,

 Now i tie in the wing, of black squirrel tail.

 Above now you can see, that i have tied in some fine pearl flash over the squirrel wing.

 Now i tie in the first hackle, here i am using a yellow hen saddle feather. as i think it gives the fly more movement, as the hen feather is a lot softer. plus i have tied it in by the tip of the feather,

 Above, you can see the feather wound on and trimmed.

 Now we tie in the front hackle, again i have used a hen saddle feather. this time in orange and again tied in at the tip of feather,

 Above, i have wound on the front hackle, which now needs to be trimmed.

And above is the finished fly, as i have said don't go with out this one. i have them in my boxes from size 4 down to size 15, for all water conditions, give it a try it is a easy fly to tie.