When it comes to anything about fishing, I do it to have fun.
When I tie my flies, I do it to have fun. I don't tie patterns, I tie to please my eye and to fool a fish... if my tie doesn't catch a fish, I still had fun trying.
When I go fishing, I go to have fun, species means little to me. The size of the fish is not all that important, it is about the tug, any tug, light or heavy, but most of all... it's about having fun!!!
I do talk about smallies a lot, but that's only because I can find them very nearby and if nothing ends up on my line, it was still a great day having fun on the water.
None of what I do is a competition or me posturing to show off any superiority; it is again... about having fun and I like to share it.
As a new(er) fly tyer, I really appreciate these videos! Yes, some stuff needs to be bought from fly shops, and I'm all for supporting them. However, certain things show up in the mail and I'm looking at this tiny bag of stuff I probably could have gone to a bigger store, bought miles of and been set for life! haha
Hello sir! I was looking for the Lamay? material you tied with in this video and I can't seem to find it. Please can you send me the direct link to it? I also love love love your brush making table. I think it's genius! Please add a link to that so I can either buy it now or save up for it. I am a 61 year old male born with spina bifida and I use a wheelchair and I am a fixed income(SSI) and Medi-cal. I'm also new to tying as I've been doing it for about a year. I am hoping to learn more and develop a high level of tying skill so I can also sell flies etc on sites like Etsy. By the way here's an idea. Have you ever considered designing an extending brush making table that can be extended or retracted as needed? Please respond with the two links and your feedback reguarding designing an extending brush table. Maybe together we can toss ideas back and forth and come up with a design for a functioning extendable/retractable brush table? I bet we could come up with it. Thank you sir for sharing your fly tying knowledge and experience and your money and time saving hacks. Also what does the pulsating light do as far as curing resin???
Hi, I totally understand, I'm 69 and have been on SSI for 7 years. SSI is a joke but more of an insult. Here is the link for the brush table: thefrugalflyrodder.etsy.com/listing/1658674586
@TheFrugalFlyRodder Thank you very much sir but what about that shiny white "malay" material fiber that you used to make the fly in that video, I need some. Thanks and tight lines!
BTW, thank you for sharing what you do! It is awe inspiring!! I am a new member of MVFF and have seen you at a few monthly meetings over this winter months, and saw your presentation fishing off of a paddle board for bass in Paint Creek at the BUFF fly fishing show.
@@TheFrugalFlyRodder I would love that! I have not yet mastered the TinkerCad application. I would love to be able to do my own designs, so look forward to that!
@@TheFrugalFlyRodder I would look forward to that. It is humbling to admit I just did not get the Tinker Cad or any Cad logic! I was amazingly trained and practiced architecture in the 1970's and 1980's! I can certainly draw it but the logic of the CAD programs!!
I think it's awesome! I have a bunch of stainless tubes with ceramic inserts if you need them!! They are for fly tying. I have my own brand of bobbins, so I have hundreds of them.
Thanks for sharing Mike! I think your onto something; I'm gonna start hucking my fly & line out like a lasso and when I hook up turn around and beat feat away from the river! 🤣 Sounds like a new exciting way to fly fish! I'm a later in life convert to fly fishing but mostly because of the eroding values in the general fishing culture, that seem to still be solid and the bastion of fly fishing, no matter the species. Conservation, Sportsmanship, Ethics. Those sort of things. Modern fishing with all it's tech just seems so backwards. My first fly rod was the $30 Martin setup in Wal-Mart and I had a hoot catching bass and panfish on it with poppers from the beginning.
We can see things in the video just fine, and most all of us have common sense, we get it!! Every youtuber goes on and on about whether we can see something or not!! The only time we can not see something is when people move out of the camera frame...now we can not see!! Just an observation!😂😂😂😂 as always, great information!! Thank you!
I hope to have them listed on my Etsy store soon. You will find a link on my website TheFrugalFlyRodder.com. I do have another brush table that's been very popular, you can find that through the link as well.
Nice looking fly. When designing the fly shape, how did you intend the fly’s action when retrieving it? The slope above the hook eye makes me think diver, but the upward slope under the hook eye seems like it would plane upward. Or do they offset each other, and it travels straight without diving?
Hello sir! My name is John. Ive been watching you and learning from you for quite some time and I love your videos. Can i ask where you bought your pulsating uv light? Thanks!
great looking fly Mike. it was tied in a hook using thread and and fly tying tools onto a hook so its a fly for sure. the guys and gals who are all traditionalist only using fur and feathers don't understand that the only reason our grandfathers didn't use the materials we have today is because they didn't have them availible to them. if they did they for sure would have used them. there is a time and place for furs and feathers but foams and synthetics often hold up better. if you tie it on a hook using thread its a fly no dought about it. again great fly Mike. fish on and tight lines.
I have discovered that a small pair of haemostats may be the best hackle pliers you will ever use! Once that hackle is gripped and locked it has a n excellent grip!
Fishtail yarn from Temu, cheap, reasonable lengths available, easy enough to dissemble. Even 4 or 5 threads on a smaller dark body fly scattered across the body, and tied at the tail. Good video! I love sourcing my materials on the cheap.
I've watched a few of your videos in past, but recently have reconnected, your ideas your approach, NO loud music or annoying baggage, just pure honest substance for probies and us old school guys, THANK YOU will be searching your archives and staying in touch, STEVE SW MISSOURI OZARKS
Thanks! Great method. I was tying some squirmies last weekend and will try this method. I appreciate you sharing all of these different ideas. I learn something every time you post a video.
You are quite the innovative guy. I just started tying squirmy worms so this was good timing. Thanks. I am older and my eyesight isnt as good as it use to be so I got some larger worms off Amazon and was looking for ways to tie them.
@@TheFrugalFlyRodder The description of the UV resin says it dries in minutes with a 36 watt light. Have you tried curing with the small battery powered UV lights? If so how well did it cure. Thanks.
@elonever.2.071 I have used more than a few different lights, all of them battery powered. That includes USB charged lights with rechargeable batteries; rechargeables can only be recharged so many times before they will no longer hold a charge or won't charge enough to provide the original power. I've found, that a corded light works best. The problem with a corded light is the "cord" can be annoying as it gets in the way.
