Established in 1928, Dette Trout Flies is the oldest family run fly shop in the world, now in our 95th year. Our mission has always been, and always will be, to supply the fly fishing community with the finest products and service. Every fly we sell is either tied in house or by a handful of select domestic tiers.
In Spring 2018 to commemorate 90 years in business we have opened a larger location in Livingston Manor with the goal to provide a welcoming space to display our ever growing selection of flies, fly tying materials, and fly fishing gear. Our inventory is solely comprised only of products that meet our demand for high quality standards. The Roscoe store is closed.
I’m fairly new to Fly Tying and just found your video. I’m definitely going to look at all your other videos but do have a question about this one. I noticed that you wiped to superglue off of your bodkin with your fingers (as I’ve seen in a few other videos as well). My question is when you do that, doesn’t that interfere with some of your other fly tying materials like glueing feathers or leaving a rough film on your fingers that may fray floss or thread using dubbing loops ?
Average fly tying with the bloody noise ( music ? ? ) it is best to delete this completely , when you go fishing how many rocks and plastic bags do you throw in the water ?
ive tied this fly for people but ive also tied the danica for people in ireland and the U.K. wonder why they use black hackle tip insted of grizzly some of there patterens have a red butt and dyed black pheasent tai fibbers for the tail
An alternative to kingfisher can be substituted and should be as it seems wrong that we would encourage the use of such birds for our pleasure. They are protected under various conservation designations in Europe and the UK. I'm sure any amount of alternatives would be readily available from far more common species.
Nice job on this Atherton Nymph! What I would really like to see is a video on how to clean fingernails! That would benefit the Vast majority of Fly Tyers on utube!!
Nicely tied. Atherton was a bit ahead of the curve with his fly design. Unfortunately he didn’t do himself a service by naming his flies numerically I believe. I bet that fishes very well.
20+ yrs ago i visited George's shop several times a year and have a few of his original ties left. They produced well on the Battenkill both as a searching pattern and emerger pattern skated across the surface.
Thank you for sharing your fly tying videos with us. I enjoy them & am learning new techniques & pattern or renewing some that need refreshing. When I learned to tie elk & deer hair wings, I was taught to leave the butts long & interweave the thread through sections of hair before whip finishing & clipping the butts to form the head. This was supposed to reliably bind the hair wing to the hook, & I never questioned it. However, I think your method of pre-clipping the hair makes the fly look better & saves some steps. You clip the butts before tying in the wing. I wish I could test this method of tying in the wing on the water but back issues prevent me from fishing any longer. However, I tie for a local Healing Waters chapter & want be be sure I am donating flies that will hold together. Do you think pre-clipping the hair before tie-in makes a wing as durable as my old method with the thread interwoven in the hair?
