Some pics

Hi all ,well I have finally sent my bio for the Irish flyfair ,complete with some pics ,they were taken by a good friend of mine Gayle marsh ,as you can see she is a superb photographer ,I could never get my pics to look like these,,have been busy tying orders and have actually started filling my own boxes for a change and have been fishing a few times so things looking up a bit.
I was also asked a little while back if i would make some of the acylic dubbing needles which are quite funky in colour and will soon be available from Toby at funky flytying.will post some for you to see in the next week or so .here are pics of the flies

Bumbee #2 blind eye

Steelhead fly 3/0

 Mayfly patterns #10 and a tippet grub on a 2/0 blind eye

some tying tools

Hi all ,had some time today after a bit of tying so i decided to make a dubbing needle as a spare as I seem to be down to one . But ended up making a few more. 2 acrylic ones and 3 out of wood smaller one is panga panga and the other 2 are wenge.I may make some more at a later date.so will post the pics on here

Looks like I will be going over to galway in November to tie at  the Irish flyfair . Looks  like a great line up of tyers there. Here is a link to the website www.irishflyfair.co.uk
Best regards Jon 

A return to tying

hi everybody, after a longer than planned break from tying due to other interests and a hand injury [whilst using my wood turning lathe owch!!!].i have returned with a rekindled interest for tying ,which when i think about it i never really lost just maybe needed a break,but thats for me to ponder about and not bore you with ,last weekend at the britsh fly fair i had a fabulous time tying on the tying clinic,i hope that the people that visited my table where happy with the advice i gave and was helpful to them,one gentleman called back on sunday to say thanks for the advice about how to get dubbing onto the thread and stay on,he had gone home saturday night and practiced and it worked, so that gave me alot of satisfaction to know that i had got the information and technique across, i wonder sometimes if i am explaining techniques in a way that the person can understand and is happy with,i dont mean this in a big headed way but we all started somewhere and tend to forget how hard some techniques are to master especially for a beginner ,there seems to be lots of info to take in and master when we start tying ,so my advice is join a local club or if you know an experieced tyer pick their brains!.dont get disheartened we've all been there,practice practice and then somemore.

i was approached by a company to tie a set of 34 steelhead flies [framed] for a fishing lodge in british columbia ,hopefully it will come to fruition ,i'm quite looking forward to doing it ,i'll keep you posted and will post some pics as i go throught the flies and the finished item.

bye for now john