55 on the fly

I'm sitting at my fly tying desk this morning with my leg up.  Today is the first day I have moved around a bit after my knee surgery and I'm starting to feel better.  My knee is healing up nicely, Michelle had the bandage off yesterday and it looks good.  She put fresh bandages on and I'm good for another couple of days. Anyway, I had to get off the couch and tie a few flies today.  So, I'm tying up some GSS Emergers. How about you?  Tying anything lately? Simple and fun to tie the GSS Emerger, tied and photographed by Doug Korn... ready to fish... Gold Wire Head GSS Emerger

Jim Misiura ties a series of flies he calls his "Garbage Bag Series".  These are a group of flies featuring wings made of various plastic bags.  The bags are those of which I get my groceries in and other big box store purchases.  I saw his videos and was intrigued and decided to give them a try.  In the end, as you can see below, I think the wings worked very well.  Easy to do and I have grey, tan, white and green bags to try... I like 'em! See Jim's "how to" video's on YouTube here:  Garbage Bag Flies by Jim Misiura I tied three variations of Sulphurs using tan garbage bags as wings on size #16 scud hooks. PT tail, dubbed body and thorax and garbage bag wings - no hackle. Same tie as the first fly only with a PT body as well as the tail. Here I added a light ginger hackle...