Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I signed my first contract to tie 40 dozen flies for a shop!!!!

Today I faxed my first contract to tie 40 dozen flies for a shop. I really needed this due to low funds and on disability.  I was really happy because now I can take what I love and send them to someone that can catch some fish on my creations. Here are the samples I sent last monday to show the shop what I can do.




















This fly might look weird but it is called a emunator. It is a leech pattern I came up with last fall. It is a marabou tail, olive body, and the back end of and emu feather. It made a real buggy leech that they liked.






















Here is a cool pattern I came up with 2 weeks ago. I called it the double threat. It has two hooks and a double bead made all out of marabou. It is legal to fish just cause the 2 hooks are not considered one. If that makes sense. The hooks are attached with mono and has amazing movement in the water. It is hard to see the 2 hooks but the last pic shows the movement it would have and how flexible it is
These are not all the flies I am tying. I am doing some dries and some local favorites as well

13 comments:

  1. Congratulations Dustin! What a great feeling that must be. I once had a shop pay me not to tie flies for them.

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  2. Really nice flies Dustin. Congrats on the contract. I like your Charlie Boy Hoppers as well. I tie a simplified version of it for use on the spring creeks here in VA in the summer. The browns love em.

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  3. Nice job Dustin, well deserved!!!!

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  4. Congrats Dustin
    I feel this is only the beginning for your fly tying. Great quality flies.

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  5. I love tying so much that I only hope that if everything takes off it doesn't just become a job. Granted commercial tying does not net a lot of money but it helps since I can't work. Thanks everyone for the props!

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  6. Congratulations on your contract! I'm new to your blog(came way of your comment on mine, thank you kind sir) but I will go ahead and say those flies in this post are definitely shop worthy. I'm glad you are able to take your hobby and talent and covert it into some jingle!
    -stephanie

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  7. Congratulations on the contract.

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  8. Congrats. That sure is a lot of flies to tie. Your flies are superb and any fly shop will be lucky to get them.

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