Glass beads and bent hooks

I was going through some of my tying stuff tonight and I found two packs of Killer Caddis glass beads that I never used before, in brown and black. I decided to mess around with them.

I purchased these bent shaft stonefly hooks that I finally got around to using. They are made by Saber and the website is www.suredrift.com if you feel like checking them out, although I don't see these hooks on the site right now. Here's what they look like:



I decided to incorporate the glass beads into the stonefly. I came up with a pretty interesting pattern. I really like how the bend in the hook gives the fly a nice curve. It's also my first time ever tying a fly with swiss straw so I know it's not perfect, but I'm sure I'll get better with practice and come up with a nice pattern after a few more tries at this.

Bent stonefly nymph hook size 12
.015 lead wire (thorax is weighted)
Black goose biots
Uni-thread black 8/0
Swiss straw
Black superfine dubbing
Killer Caddis glass beads (brown and black)




I've also been on a pheasant tail kick so I tried some tiny PTs with the glass beads. I did a nymph version with a wood duck tail, and a soft hackle version.

Size 16 short nymph hook
Ringneck pheasant tail fibers
UTC ultrawire small, gold
Mallard died wood duck (nymph tail)
Killer Caddis glass bead
Hungarian partridge (soft hackle)





That's about it for today but before I go, I need to hit you with this:

Feedback requested - DubTV Episode 2

I sat down tonight to start off another episode of DubTV and realized that I have no idea what to do a video of. I'm open to suggestions. I'm willing to do a video of any pattern I've posted on here so far, or something else you can think of (besides the Sex Dungeon. I hate that thing now).
I've had a few people ask how I get my egg patterns so small, but I feel like there's already 200 other videos that will show you that.

What would you like to see?

Well, since I don't have a video relating to tying or fishing, here's a video of my son singing about cows.




Also, anti-shoutout to snow! Another 2-4 inches tonight, followed by a cold front where it is going to stay below 25 degrees all weekend means that fishing on Sunday with any gear I bought at Somerset is going to be worthless.

Some sunday morning comedy

This was posted on the PA Fly Fish homepage and I thought it was hysterical. Enjoy your day.

You know you fish too much when...

You're in Dunkin Donuts at 6am picking up coffee before an ungodly awful Sunday shift at work and you reach in to your jacket pocket for some spare change and get stabbed by a size 8 Slumpbuster.

Ouch.

Speaking of Slumpbusters, here's Trout Predator's tutorial on tying them. I really like this pattern and he makes it look easy. Although I have yet to find squirrel tale cut in strips. I've been using Zonker strips.