Whaat?

It's currently 16 degrees here in Texas, and last night's low was 8. I can't believe how cold it is! Every water body in the area is frozen in some parts and it's just too cold to fish. The high today is 17 and we've been out of school for 3 days due to the icy roads and rolling blackouts all over the state. All I've been able to do it tie flies, a LOT of flies. i've been tying all kinds of stuff

Moreau flies- great for sandbass and crappie.

Guadalupanas

 Plan B's 

Jonathan's amazing drum fly

Scud

14 size 12 GRBH Hares ears

Kinky muddler

I'm going to be tying all day today cause i've got nothing else to do. I'll throw up a few more pics later.

Cold front hits

It is currently 26 degrees in Coppell and dropping quickly. I hate cold! somehow the heater in the tying got turned off so I walked in to everything frozen in there. I had to fire up the heater and suck it up for a few hours and get ready for Texoma Tie In. Materials are packed, now all I need to do is get the vise and tools packed and i'm ready to roll!

I did get a few flies in before I packed up the shed, so here they are.

My favorite deer hair fly- the PB's Muddler

size 12(I think???) Mustad Kahle hook. Awesome fly!

Chrome Charlie's Plopsicle

Sparse version of Terry Wilson's Bass Bully

And also I had to do some sketches of random stuff for Art this week. What did you expect?

Now if I could only catch a carp...

A few flies

It's been really cold around here for the past week so I've been tying a lot. Right now the current temp is 28 and tonight's low is 24. The wind and ice is making everything a mess so it's really hard to fish, so I'm just staying home and tying. This weekend I'm going to Lake Hawkins for the TFF 2nd annual Fly Fishing Idiots Pickerel trip. Last year it rained and I blanked on fish. I think rained like an inch while we were there last time so I hope it doesn't rain but overcast weather will bring the fish up so it might be a good thing for it to rain. Well, here's a few that i've tied this week.

Deer hair bass bug. I couldn't find any razorblades so I freehanded this with scissors and coated the front with nail polish to harden up the popping face.

Bunny Gurgler, kind of a fun tie.

Sickle hook Double Bunny

This is a new one, kind of a modified hairy fodder. This one works! I already got 2 bass on it a few days ago.

Roughfisher Carp Assasins.

New carp box is filling up quickly! 

I also got a new bass box last week.

this is it on Sunday

And this is today. It's filling up quickly!

Circle Hook Clousers

Shannon gave me a small pack of hooks when we fished on Friday, and in there were 2 size 4 Mustad 60 degree circle jig hooks.. They are hard to find, and of course i've never seen them before. They are cool and I have wanted to get into the circle hook craze more in fly fishing as I have done with conventional stuff. Here's a few clousers tied on the circle jig hooks

That circle hook is sharp! I ordered 3 sizes of them plus a bunch of new jig hooks this weekend. After this weekend I should be set for a while!

A few new blends

I went crazy at JoAnn's fabric store today. I saw the wool/arcrylic blend that JP of Roughfisher.com found last week and I needed to stock up anyway. 23 bucks gets you this

Then I spent a long time just messing around with dubbing. Rabbit fur and these mixed gets you these tasty blends. Carp, here I come!

Just messing around with a coffee grinder. I hope to actually get some flies tied tomorrow.