Jiggy Flies

A double purpose fly...nice baitfish pattern for flats fishing, but also a good small tunoid fly. Tied with tungsten beads, size 4 hooks.

Feathertail Sand Eel and Sightcast Minnow

Feathertail Sand Eel (L): colored tubing, thin saddle feathers and UV resin.
Sightcast Minnow (R): worm hook, bucktail and faux bucktail, bleached peacock

Baitfish Variety

Baitfish comparison...  Hooks sizes 2/0 and 3/0, narrow vs wider profiles.

Sardinella aurita

Round sardinella (Sardinella aurita), another important Med baitfish for small tunas...

Sardina pilchardus

Tying few more for Med... European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), tied somewhat more elongated than the naturals. Small tuna attractor, 6" on 3/0 hook. Versions on the second photo are slightly smaller.

Colored Tubing Baitfish

Few craft fur candies tied with Hends colored tubing, L to R: pale yellow, olive, pink, sand.

Suspended Squid and Heart-Foam Slider

Inspired by my old heart-foam squids...just smaller. Crease slider below is tied on 3/0 Varivas hook.

Crease Flies

Olive and pink crease flies... Tied with thicker foam on 3/0 Gamakatsu SP11 perfect bend hooks.

More Magnum Candy

Magnum silversides, and also good imitation of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus.) These imitate full grown specimens, tied on size 2/0 hooks.

Magnum Silversides and Fish Headz

Circle vs J-Hooks

Variety

Broken Back Hollow Deceiver

Simple Flies for March V

Another mackerel...the time is coming!

Group Photo

Simple Flies for March III

Hollow Bunker Fleye

Simple Flies for March II

Hollow Fleye 2

Simple Flies for March

Hollow Fleye

Simple Flies for February IV

Big Head Deceiver...High contrast for murky water.

Simple Flies for February III

Mixed-medium Megaceiver

Missing Link Caddis (ginger)