What's in Your Vise?

[Steve F]

It seems that time is upon us again.  Standing on the precipice of fall, what is everyone looking forward to most?  Show us what you're tying to get ready.  

In the calm before the storm, I find myself doing my best to over-prepare for a few trips this fall.  Here's a couple I've been working on to chase a few of our anadromous friends up north.  Lately I've had a bit of an infatuation with the classic steelhead/salmon wet and spey flies.  Materials can be tough to come by, but I can't wait to give em a shot. 

[Charlie Church]

Striper, speckled trout, red drum, steelhead....gettttting pumped. Hopefully it will be a good fall/winter season

Good looking flies as always Steve. 

[TurbineBlade]

Buckstail streamers (mostly of the Mickey Finn variety, but also Beth's favorite color combination), #18 soft hackles (smaller than I typically tie and fish, but necessary sometimes), and my preferred style of SJWs for cold and warm water.  

Beautiful flies BTW!  I'm not skilled enough at the vise to crank out beauties like that ;).  

Gene

[Steve F]

Thanks Gene, it would seem you have an eye for a few classics as well.  I've seen your soft hackles in a post a while back and they were fantastic.  I've tied a few but never really got the hang of the technique for fishing them.   Something I'm hoping to remedy in the near future.  

[Rob Snowhite]

I'm about to sit down and crank through a pile of steelhead buggers in chartreuse, purple, and fuschia. Got a week long trip planned for the Salmon River in New York in November. These are going to be unweighted for the swing.