Northwest Fishing Reports

Here's a few flies I've tied recently. Seems I always end up with too much materisl

Those look good! Too much material? Don’t see it. If you think your feathers hang too far off the backed the hook, try using some type of measurement device when laying down the marabou. For palmered feathers you don’t have much choice though outside of picking material out at the store.
Good job.

Thanks! I guess I envision what it'll look like with 1 feather, it never works out and to me looks like I've put 3 feathers in there. But I've only been tying for 3 months.

I have learned to limit how many different materials I pull out. If ive got stuff laying around ill manage to find a place to tie it in lol

What size are those? 8 or 10? Pretty good really for only 3 mo in. Takes a bit to figure out the nuances of the material and thread. Remember, the fish typical care less how they look than we do. Some of my flies and jigs are ugly, but they still catch fish.

#4 SL11's and #4 U302's I don't really like the U302's so I'm trying to use them up

these were tied on a #6 got a little carried away with thread and had to go over the bead.

Not bad! You'll get used to how much materials to use with experience. I sucked pretty bad when i first started tying. You're doing pretty good for only 3 months in.