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Friends Flies Journal
A collection of flies gifted and traded over the years with fly tying friends and acquaintances from around the world.
Friends Flies
Bass Bugs by George W. Harmeling
These spun deer hair bass bugs are examples of "art" in spinning deer hair. George ties some of the best looking action packed bass bugs available. Really big bass agree that these bugs are awesome. The last two bugs have swivel tail units attached by a loop to the back of the hook shank. These swim very well in the water.
Trout Flies designed and tied by John P. Newbury
John is one of the finest fly designers around today. His art background and extensive fishing experiences give him a most interesting outlook on fly design. These patterns are of all synthetic construction eliminating the need for expensive or hard to find materials. But best of all they catch fish! The first fly is the Stinger Stone and the second is a dry stonefly using an extended body and the third is an USD dun.
The two flies of well known patterns below were tied by John for publication in the Flies for Steelhead by Dick Stewart & Farrow Allen (1992). The first is the Air B.C. and may be found on page 2 and the second is the Moose Turd is found on page 6 of that book. Over the years moisture has gotten into the container these flies were stored in and the Air BC hook has some rust on it. That is my fault and not the way John originally tied this lovely fly.
John also ties some of the most beautiful Spey flies for casting to steelhead. These are all fishing flies but for most of us we can only dream of tying Spey flies to John's high standard. John is also an exceptional dyer of materials and some of the wings on these Spey flies use feathers he has dyed.
Here are a pair of interesting ties by John. One is a prawn and the other a classic PNW steelhead style fly.
George Grant
One of George Grant's woven hackle creepers tied by George himself. This is the Black and Tan Creeper.
The Dettes
These are a selection of flies tied by the Dette family when all three were tying commerically out of their shop in the Catskills in the early 1990's.
