Welcome to the RU-vid home for my library of videos. I hope you find entertainment and a little instruction here. And thank you very much for the kind thoughts so many people have offered regarding the many fly tying videos I've produced with Chris Daughters for the Caddis Fly Shop channel and the Oregon Fly Fishing Blog. My goal is to re-shoot as many fly tying videos as I can and post the long versions here on my own channel, specially for the folks who want the Director's cut - complete with errors and tons of rambling speculation. JN
11:15 eastern time nice job 5 years old but I have a pattern you may want to give a tye and try. Maybe your fish are fussy. But ours like my patterns well .😮
Pretty awesome being able to watch these after just getting into spey last November when I started working at the Ashland fly shop I'm definitely absorbing a lot of valuable knowledge, Im working hard to create a fly thats recognized among many steelheaders as a productive fly one day...
Jay thank you,your videos are informative & entertaining,some would say you ramble to much,but I don't,like you I also ramble on,you & I are very close in age & agree,have realized & excepted that with age comes limitations or limits,tying a size 20 midge then tying it on my leader not going to happen,keep it up my friend,tight lines & bent rods 🤙
them size 6 hooks tend to punch a little too deep on the small fish. if they've bled they're probably dead. I came to this conclusion awhile back and so I use smaller hook sizes and styles for the wily SRC, my favorite fish.
Hello Steve, my apologies for being absent for so long. I totally agree with your comment about hook size, noting that some size 6 hooks are possibly ok like the Daiichi 1530 short heavy size 6. I grew up fishing #6 eagle claw 1197-b #6 hooks always always always. there were so many fish and we killed our share and more. Great on the barbie in august and September. Now I realize we need hooks that are smaller in a dimension that does not kill or severely injure the fish we so revere and will release gently. Do you feel ok with the #6 TMC 3761? That seems way smaller than the TMC 700 (extinct now), 7999, and others. Anway I am with you and think different makers and models will address our concerns that are real. Thank you so much and I hope people work and think on this and see how their testing helps. Jay
@@jaywnicholas I do fish the #6 3761 for cutthroat and half pounders. it's a smaller 6 as it were. i was trying out some articulated ties that used a smaller hook on an extended body for the half pounders and some sea runs too. and yeah when we were kids we used a bullhead fillet on a 6 or even a 4 mustad hook for cutthroats and we always took them home. it's good to see so many people using fly gear on the rivers here on the south coast. I got a friend of mine into fly fishing and set him up with a vice and some materials and tools and he's really took to it. on my local rivers the sea run resource is really in good shape from the milder winters we've had the last few years so that's encouraging anyway. thanks for the reply and all of the great videos Jay.
you always want to cast a few times before wading out in the middle of it all. i've been guilty of this many times. leave my line out and reel in with my rod hanging over my shoulder as I'm walking in to switch rods and get slammed by a green back torpedo lol.
And there has Never been a 7' 7" Weight Fly Rod !! I'm no Spring Chicken myself, but I'm afraid you're getting the Length of the Fly Rod Confused with the Line Weight rating :-0)> !!
I had similar issues tying composite loops. Taking a brush to the loop before wrapping it and really beating it up helps thin it out and make the loops consistent.
Not sure if you're doing it for a trip out that day, but I'm trying more and more to have everything done the day before. I get up at 3:30 to leave the house at 4:30, and having more prep to do then tends to stress me out. Sounds like you're relaxed, though, so that's good. I think you've done the only organizing-a-fly-box-at-3:45am video in the history of humankind. Thanks.
That was Hickman being funny. Sarcastic. If everyone fished 6-pound leaders, most of the steelhead would be lost. Jeff does not use 6-pound leaders. Sorry for the bad joke.
Poetry in motion, plain and simple. Like most people like to watch reruns, I can sit and watch a person who knows what the hell they’re doing Spey cast for hours on end. A simplistic solution for the question of how to introduce the merchandise at distance, pain free.
