A Mayfly imitation

This is a little  mayfly that I have been tying to imitate the black Mayflies that hatch on our rivers. They are tied on a Dohiku dry fly hook, have a body made from Hends body Quill in black with a  yellow rib. Both flies as below has a wing of Snowshoe rabbit fur, but the bottom one has some additional black hackle around the wing and the wing is a bit thinner. Both also have some CDC dubbing around the thorax.

 A more detailed pic of the second fly.

An extended body version

Tubeology

Received my stock of Tubeology kits today. Got me in the mood to tie a fly despite the muggy weather. This is the first one of the vice. I will do a full review on these kits soon, just need to play around with it a bit.

Still here!!!

Things have been awfully quite here on the blog lately. With high temperatures and low rivers I haven't been doing any fishing at all. Even the nights have been freakishly warm so I haven't tied much either.

This is just a post to let you all know (or the 2 of you that emailed me and actually check in from time to time) that I am still here. For your dedication I have added three poorly Photoshopped photo's from my last trip in December 2010.

Hopefully I will be able to share something meaningful with you soon.