most expensive fly pattern?

[grouser]

Most common fly patterns are relatively inexpensive to tie.
Do any of you tie a certain pattern with exotic materials that makes the fly an expensive tie? Just curious.

[FlySmyth]

I tied my wife up once. Man when she woke up and caught me THAT got expensive.

[MWSpearo]

Did you use 8/0 or 6/0 thread?

[Rod Hog]

Somehow I believe you dude

[nightfish]

No experience with either here, but I think the $$$ award would have to go to either full-dress salmon patterns or to the big bluewater flies that use a whole chicken to dig up marlin. I do know that Rainy sells a huge tube fly "teaser", as long as your forearm, that retails for $35.

[cfonnes]

I do know that Rainy sells a huge tube fly "teaser", as long as your forearm, that retails for $35.

Damn and I thought a mouse pattern was expensive.

[fish-hunter]

LMAO! Your merciless! :)

Fish-Hunter

[Strike II]

Mike (fanatic) still haunts us from beyond!


How did the move go?

Shoot me an e-mail!

[Señorfish]

Strike-

Did you get my Wind river e-mail?

[ScottT]

C'mon, we all know what the most expensive fly is.

It's the one on the other side of the river, broke off in an overhanging tree just out of reach, that's been absolutely slaying the fish when nothing else would bring a single rise, you're 25 mile S.E. of nowhere, it was your last one - an"experimental" pattern from two years ago, and you can't really remember how you tied the %$#& thing, let alone what size or color it was.

Scott

[Jason]

I've seen some pretty nice deer hair bass bugs for around $5 each. The Classic Atlantic Salmon flies can get pricey with all the different materials that are used and the nicer hooks.

ScottT, LOL. Isn't that the truth. I lost a lot of flies this year for some reason. ;-) Too many risky casts and lighter tippets.

Flysmyth, have you tried out those S&M bobbins? Junge told me that he loves his. He bought 4 of them and just can't believe how good the thread tension is.

[Flytier]

As per Kelson's The Salmon Fly:

Chatterer

Body: Numerous (approx. one gross, or 144) Blue Chatterer feathers, packed tightly together

Methinks not many of this pattern have been tied, world wide, across decades ;-)

Cheers,
Hans W

[grouser]

Welcome Flytier! 144 feathers in 1 fly? Sounds like quite a fly.
Is the Blue Chatterer a bird from Europe?

[grouser]

www.gamefishing.co.uk/chatterer.htm

[highcountry]

Check out this link. http://www.rareandunusual.com/tcs.html. There are some pretty unique flies in here.

[highcountry]

but the website address is rareandunusual.com check it out