Hahaha 😆 that would have been smart. Those are the buzzers that go into my box from my vice 👍 Very useful fish catcher. I've actually saved most of these flies as a collection. Thinking of selling of them on ebay or something when I get around to it
Awesome fly 🪰 Areo wing has been around a while, I think tiemco had it. I think it's similar to a light weight insulation in outerwear called hollowfill. Hollow fibers. I'm glad I sub'd a while back! ❤ you tie beautiful AND buggy flys! 😊
Thanks you 😊 yeah lots of options for the wing. Aero wing, ep trigger point, predator fibres, as long as its wispy and hydrophobic. A few brands do something similar now days. Matching colours can be tricky though
@@garrickeckardflytying Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks for the "memory reboot" There's so many similar products out it's hard to keep track. Thanks again Garrick 👍
Omg THANK YOU! I'm a beginner and I'm awful at wrapping pheasant tail. Hopefully I'll have better luck after seeing this method. Only thing id do different it use a bead or add legs. Or both
Hello Sir, Thank you for going to the trouble of showing us your Pheasant Tail tie. You can never have too much information and new ideas, colours, styles usually spring to mind. Thank you.
Looks great! When wrapping the copper wire with a bobbin holder, I've been having problems with the wire twisting, which weakens it and causes it to break.. really frustrating! Have you encountered this problem and do you know how best to avoid it? Thanks!
Thank you 😊 unfortunately the twisting will be the same as what happens with thread. Each wrap around the hook imparts twist to the wire. You can counter it a bit by spinning the bobbin holder anti-clockwise if you tie right-handed (opposite applies if you tie left-handed). Same premise as thread management, but wire does unfortunately break pretty easily. Another thing is using a ceramic bobbin holder (I don't though). That helps prevent the wire burring and weakening as much as it perhaps can with steel bobbin holders. I did another video of my variant of Sawyer's PTN using thread but still trying to stay true to the original. Should be in the playlist section. Hope that helps 👍
I absolutely love your videos Garrick, I’ve just started a beginners course at my local club in Staffordshire. Just wondering if you’ve ever been to the International fly show that is normally on every February in Stafford. Keep up the great work my friend Ron
Thank you, glad you like them and you find them helpful. I went to the 2022 BFFI to meet up with some mates and have a walk around. Hopefully, I'm getting down to the next but not on tyers row. Perhaps the one after if I get the invite
They're both in the same family of game birds. French / Red-legged is a slightly larger bird, and the feather used here is a more striking flank feather than what you'd find on a grey partridge 👍
@garrickeckardflytying thanks Garrick. In my youth they were all Grey Partridges and Red Legs were interlopers. I have a grey partridge skin and feel guilty for not using it enough.
Not a problem at all. I think red-legged are now more prominent than the indigenous grey partridge. Nothing wrong with subbing grey for the head hackle, especially dyed golden olive for these style of mayfly patterns. Gosling with dyed golden olive flanks from a grey partridge is a lovely variant.
Excellent, I have a wad of unused purple flashabou and other salmon fly materials that should do nicely for these. Purple retains visibility in deep and low light conditions and seems to work in every colour of water, which is probably why it’s so good. Cheers from Finland!
Hi mate, blend of seals fur (medium and golden olive, apple green and brown mixed with a lot of UV). Medium olive marabou, fine kingfisher blue tinsel, peacock tyers mate for the ribbing, medium olive partridge and 5mm olive foam 👍
The original and still the best. I just works in all sizes right down to #22. It also works using dyed pheasant tail fibres, single or a mix of colours ie natural with olive, or orange and claret. Even use pheasant tail fibres from different species of pheasant. Just enjoy the journey have some fun with it.
Yup, a true classic Mr Sawyer provided us with. Another little tweak I like is to add a small amount of hare's mask as a thorax to it. Wax the wire and dub directly to the wire. A little bit of leggy movement to it
In all honesty, I don't count them anymore. I use the width of the thorax to gauge the width of the wings. If you're splitting the wings, that's usually because the thread tension is in a wrapping motion. To avoid that, you'll need to use a pinch and loop. This allows you to apply tension upwards and not in a wrapping motion. I'll be covering this in a tutorial soon if it's helps. If you're really stuck and struggling, let me know. I'll put something together for you. Perhaps DM me on Facebook and I'll give you hand with it. Thanks GRE 👍
I like that you used hare's ear for the tail. But why use pheasant tail for the wing case when you're putting a traditional tail? Go full traditional and case it with some turkey
Good question. Down to personal preference in all honesty. I like the micro fibres on pheasant tail. They're cheaper, and I have them readily available in abundance. I tend to save my turkey tails for other patterns. Don't see the turkey as important enough trigger to warrant it. In fairness, my mainstay working GRHE doesn't even have the wing pads. Thanks GRE
Thanks Chris. It's a pattern that I came up with last year. I'll redo the full video soon. It was the product of fishing different venues in the North of England. I wanted something that incorporated trigger points from different things which were around when fishing and sampling the small still waters and reservoirs I was on. I did fair load of sampling and fishing over a few months and that was the pattern I worked on to get it how I wanted. Hope it works for you as it has me 👍
The pheasant tail nymph is one of my most successful flies in my arsenal. I agree with you there. Your method of tying however is bad. Fly tying is an art and some people are just not artistically inclined. The wrapping on the thorax before you secured the wingcase? What was that?
Correct Eddie. This old pattern however was tied like this. The gnat as I mentioned in the full length video is a general term used to describe small members of the diptera order which as you mention are flat wing unlike the Ephemeroptera order of uprights. An old school pattern, not one of mine. Weaver's and Goddard's version are I think closer to the real thing which I'll tie later in the series 👍
