this ain't no beauty...

just got a new issue of the hook.tv e-zine.. and there's a new saltwater fly called "the electric dread" being discussed in forum.. way labor intensive, very expensive to make... and ugly as sin..

am wondering how they might work for salmon out here....

http://www.hook.tv/Flyfishing/Forum/index.php?topic=336.msg1958#msg1958

Looks like a double ended version of a shrimp fly I tie for steelhead.

I wonder how they'd do daisy chained for rockfish?

Dang it!  Now I'm going to have to break out the vise and twist up a couple of these.

oh dude! great new pic...

yeah but will yours cost $70./dozen like they are charging??

oh dude! great new pic...

Yeah, that's how I feel waiting to see how kykfshr did on the Cowlitz today....

yeah but will yours cost $70./dozen like they are charging??

It doesn't take me 45min to tie one but they are labor intensive.  For you, 69.99/dozen.   

Nah, just remind me next time we meet up and I'll bring you a couple to try out.

sweet!!. thanx for the offer...sorry but it may be a very long time before we'll see each other again.. i'll take a rain check etc etc....

gosh, it was nasty down by the cowlitz today.. hope he made it back safe and sound...

Looks like a double ended version of a shrimp fly I tie for steelhead.

I wonder how they'd do daisy chained for rockfish?

Dang it!  Now I'm going to have to break out the vise and twist up a couple of these.

hey spot, you ever chase this experiment down?? would love to see the end result..

Awesome looking pattern. Rockfish, greenling, cabezon, surf perch, steelhead, salmon... would all bite that!

However, my time is worth too much to me to want to spend 45 minutes tying any fly. I like to keep 'em simple. I'll bet that a simpler-to-tie version of that fly would produce similar results when fishing.
No fly which will be fished and eventually lost should ever take more than 15-20 minutes (after set-up time, once you get tying and tie up a few during one tying session) at worst, or its getting too complex. For me, anyway. If you have to dig out your materials and set up only to tie one fly, that might take 45 minutes.
I like flies that you can mass-produce at a rate around half-dozen to over a dozen per hour. I can't sit at the vice for more than an hour or two. I don't enjoy tying that much! I like to fish my own flies, though. Just my opinion.