Great little video. I made my first fly yesterday. I copied Kelly's Silk Kitty and had a blast doing it. Your video filled in a few gaps in the techniques that maybe he cruises through too fast or takes for granted. Thank you sir. 🤘🏼
I missed a 20+ brown today on a green weenie my cousin made with a loop tail. I had no chance of landing it. I'm new and have no idea I'm doing wrong. If I was using my spinning reel, I would have no problems. I have a 9 foot 5 weight with 4x leader. It's such a huge learning curve and often get frustrated.
You definitely can use it year around, but it is most commonly used in mountain streams in the fall/spring. If you use it in winter, treat the dry fly mainly as an indicator. However, there are occasions (warm sunny days) where trout will still go for the dry, so it is nice to have an "indicator" with a hook in it. Cheers!
"You're allowed to over-wrap your material." No Sir, bud! I'm calling the Fly Tying Police right now! 🙂 Super pattern! Thanks for sharing! Oh, maybe put a tiny little square of foam back in the shank part to make it stand on its head? You'd have to fool with it to figure out how much.
Definitely can be done. I believe the the Gully Worm does that very thing. I’ve also used marabou or curly fly tails to make it more of a curly tail swimming worm.
Those types of flies is all I make. Dopest ones to use on every type of specie especially trout anyways question for u bro. Need your help. I usually make those on 1/16ballheads. But wanna make the. On size 6 or 8 hooks or sickle hooks. But have no clue what tungsten head to use that'll be identical to that size 1/16th. You think u can help me with that brotha an what hook you think I should use for that one too. You think that hook your using now for this video?? Thanks much an dope video
@Jill Cox thanks! I ordered the Peak rotary. I figure I’d rather spend money once and think I’ll be happy with that one. Really wanted to buy the Regal but dang! Pricey! Thanks again, I’m sure I won’t be disappointed.
Hello, How many flies-artificial baits in average can you tie?, two, three etc. Is it legal and used throughout the UK?, thank you and Best regards, TM, ;-)
*I bought these and used them at the river where I get snags often they have done a **enjoyable.fishing** recommend great job of not breaking along with some strong line I purchased as well. They are super durable and easy to use.*
Great video, loved the tip on cutting a square out of the polar fiber. I will definitely be putting that to use! Henry is such a cool guy I was lucky enough to talk to/listen to him talk about striper fishing at a fly fishing expo a few years back. All his knowledge on freshwater stripers has helped me land many on my local waters. I kind of understand people on re-naming a variation, BUT if everything was just called a variation then searching for specific flies like this would be a mess. This fly may look close to one, but it performs completely different than a standard clouser.
ten years ago (and probably more) Bob Clouser was showing how to tie synthetic variations of his own pattern, and Bobby Jr too at the BPS in Harrisburg. Whatever. All the "cool kids" of the youtube age gotta put their own name on shit. I guess it takes being a fly tyer for more than four decades or so to get tired of someone changing one material or the thread color or something on a time tested pattern and calling it their own.
I did not name the fly. If you listen to the video you will hear me say this is a Henry Cowen pattern. Henry is a legendary striper guide on Lake Lanier same generation as Bob Clouser, Lefty, and Flip. If you read Cowen's book, "Fly Fishing for Freshwater Striped Bass" you will find his explanation of the pattern, and why he uses it. As well, you can find this exact pattern termed, "Somethin Else" in the Umpqua fly catalog and sold in fly shops all over under that name. It's one of Cowen's many signature series flies that Umpqua sells... Anyways, thanks for watching the video!
Bob Clouser didn't put a pink tutu on his...maybe. I'll tie one using the same steps and technique from my husky's fur and I shall name it the "Alaskan Trout Killer."
@@alcapilit196 I get it for sure. If there were copyright laws in fly tying this fly would be sued. It's a polar fibre clouser minnow with a (your terms) pink tutu haha I like that. I like the fly regardless of the name anyone wants to call it. On another note, I do like to have some kind of name for the fly that is a short. For example, the Half N' Half. If I needed a Half N' Half and asked my buddy for one and he said - I only have Clouser Minnow Feather Butts in my box... That would be a little strange. Of course, that was the original creator that came up with the name (to my knowledge). So, he would have permission to name his own fly variance something else if he wants to. As well, it's Half Clouser/Half Deceiver so the Half N' Half name makes complete sense. I always assumed the "Something Else" was a nod to that thought process. It's a Clouser Minnow, but not EXACTLY it's - something else - BUT I could be way off. I've never asked Henry why the name change was initiated. I'll ask him. At the end of the day, maybe I should call this fly the Craft Fur Pink Tutu Clouser Minnow from now on.
@@taletellersflyshop1071 Haha. That would have elicited a host of less-triggered response from us, bro. And THAT name would have stuck, too. Good video quality, btw. I'm thinking of uploading a tying video one of these days myself. But I want to do a tying demo/successful employment vs trophy fish-type of video. My trophy fish? PNG black bass over here in the Philippines.
