Nice fly shaky, I suggest when you are proudly displaying the fly you leave it in the vice. When you hold it, it shakes too much and we don't see the fine details.
Hi: Fantastic filming. After watching a few times, i see the "tail" gills are vertically aligned. Fascinating, as i have been endeavoring to tie a pattern that encompasses their various features, it is a lot of fun, crappies, bluegills, trout, perch all seem to like my evolving pattern--thank you very much for the detailed biology!! Randy c
Very nicely done. Being fairly new to fly tying, I really appreciated your detailed explanation during the tying process. I looked throughout your videos and could not find any videos showing how to knot the ends of your boots. Do you use the same technique that’s used for knotting pheasant tail fibers ?
cannot find that substitute anymore, but Berroco Ultra Alpaca 62503 Farro looks pretty close I think. You can also look at 62502 Wild Rice and 62505 Millet. I personally use 6214 Steel Cut Oats. When I feel like it, most of the time i'm just going to use hairs ears, cut and blended myself. If I dont want to go through that, I just get the dreads on a spool.
why the hell are you manufacturing an eye on that hook shank? DIDN'T THEY COME WITH AN EYE IN 1989? I've been tying for 55+ years and I've never hears of this. a HEARS EAR will catch more fish than this object.👎
"Until the late nineteenth century, the vast majority of hooks were "blind" (i.e. they lacked an eye.) It is a curious fact that the first illustration of an eyed hook was in 1660, in Les Ruses Innocentes, by Fortin. The first English illustration of an eyed hook was in Hawker's 1760 edition of The Complete Angler, which has a plate showing a fly dressed on an eyed hook. It took one hundred and fifty years for the new invention to catch on, despite the many problems that hooks tied to gut or horsehair presented." Sure Kenneth, some Guys are on a slow side and very conservative. Have a Nice Day.
there is a shine side to the turkey fibres I would do the opposite of you and tie the shine side down ,so when you pulpit forward the nicer side is showing. the pheasant feathers are found under every larger feather (kind of an underwing)
Hey sir, just one question, how to rear them for studying?, Like there is no lakes near me so I recreating lake in my home so that they come and lay egg there. Anything about height at which they lay eggs as my terrace is a little bit high and how shallow the water must be and all.
Thank you for showing how you tie this streamer. I had ties a few of these years ago and never used them until a trip "steelheading" when the water was high and muddy. I fished the fly where a concrete bridge wall tapered away from the current and steelhead eagerly grabbed the fly as it tumbled with the current within a few inches (mm) the wall. The fly saved an otherwise unproductive day of angling for me, and I've enjoyed tying and fishing it ever since.
Bret this is a really nice video. And what's really is special is that you were able to find anduse your father's unique DC powers dubbing tool . Enjoy those moments and memories.
Excellent tie. Fishing the Henry’s Fork next week. This should work perfectly. I liked that piece of plastic that held back the CDC when you were tying off and cementing the head. Please explain that procedure. Thanks
Oh, I'm a bit jealous about Henry’s Fork. :) Enjoy m8! Well, it's just a small piece of small "Drinking straw" cut on the side, so You can put it on the thread.
