A family who loves to fly fish and to tie flies. We offer several different videos of alternative fly tying materials as well as fly tying tips, tricks and patterns. We also post fishing videos or something from our homestead randomly. Please follow us along on our adventures both in the fly tying room and outdoors.
I have been making spider bodies out of wine corks. I length or width depending on the size I want and use a Dremel tool to form it. They float and look just like a spider on top of the water. My hook is curved up for less snags and a more surprised fish. I put the cork on from both sides.
Well I made up 6 of these last night, and tommorow I am going to make more. Had a brand new card of hair bands, some cheap harbor freight heat shrink and one red stir stick. Great tool and well explained.
Give bone ash a try. High in phosphor. Maybe optical whiteners for laundry. Might be higher concentrate than regular laundry detergent. Dish washer detergent use to have high phosphorous content, until it was realized it's pretty bad for the environment, especially bodied of water. Would be nice to get a form of it you could mix with a clear paint or clear adhesive so it doesn't shed into the lake or pond.
That looks awesome! Adding fur yarn to the list! Would be cool to skip the fur tail and use some pink rubber or even a light color thin leather strip for extra realism. Binge watching through your tying vid's. Love the diy supplies and making a list of stuff so I can give it a go when I can. Thanks!
I looked through your videos & didn't see it. Have you discussed scud back material? Like the thin strips of plastic. I bought some today and am really wondering where I can find large quantities for cheap.
I've got an old dog mat kicking around that has those same 'nubs' but twice the size of the mop ones. It's dark blue, but I'd swear I've seen white, pink, lite beige, etc.
It would be helpful if you included showing examples of how you use chamois on flies like the crawfish. You mentioned using chamois for the legs but not the claws. Do you also make claws? I think it would really work well for the purpose.
I have a bait needle for putting boilies on a hair rig that works great for legs. Its shorter than your long one, a bit smaller, with a smaller head for the latch. In a foam or deer hair body you can even take a single strand of black bucktail, pull it through and trim to the length you like. The .410 bore brush is a good idea, although I do use a lot of velcro. Both have their place. Keep em coming brother!
My daughter gave me all of her uv fingernail polish and a UV light you stick your hand under to set the UV polish, she wasn't using them anymore. So I now have UV resin of assorted colors with some having glitter etc... I usually use them for hot spots on my flys but I know they would have many other uses.
this is why I love doing this channel. I learn something everyday. I will be trying to make my own tomorrow. Thanks for watching, but thank you more for another tip.
I’m glad you talked about sealing the threads on glue containers. It’s really important for health. Not only does it save glue and money, it also prevents evaporation of sometimes toxic fumes into your house.I use some old, not-so tacky dubbing wax instead Chapstick, but it does the same thing. I expect beeswax would work equally well. Dave’s Flexament has been my primary cement for 40 years for in-progress stages and for fly heads where appearance or bulk aren’t needed. Like you, I prefer it well thinned. I buy 3 bottles of thinner for 1 bottle of cement, because the mix evaporates a tiny bit each time you use the glue. To avoid having to pour the thinner from the thinner bottle to the working glue bottle, I keep the thinner in a small bottle with an eye dropper. That avoids large spills (horrible & smelly), and allows precise addition of thinner.
Oh yes brother, keep posting and preaching these tips. Heat up the botkin to make the hole, and take your wife's crocheting hook to pull the legs through it. I'm using a .410 brass cleaning brush as my dubbing brush too. And I love the shirt with Sasquatch with his rock and roll fingers high. Yes, I'm that old. Rock on brother.
Another great, money saving video. I have kept gun cleaning brushes on my bench forever, both brass and nylon robbed from my cleaning kits before they could be used for those "redneck" purposes, LOL. Made handles from 1/2" dowels, and they even look good with a lin-speed gunstock finish on them. Making your own tools is all part of the fun, as well as saving $$$. I make many of my own luthiery tools also, not only to save money buying from stwmac, but to have custom equipment that is designed for purpose and often works better than store bought. Will look for the hair clips next time I go to town, my fingers are less than efficient now that I am officially old. ;-) Sort of crippled up after too many "encounters" back in the day. Like you, I am retired LE. Thank you for your service to your community. Be well. And catch the big ones!
it definitely is stronger than the bead method. I wish I was the one who come up with the idea. Someone showed me a very similar method, I just tweeked it a bit.
Great idea! If tippet n bobbins spools are same you could mass produce the parts and cut down on prep time. Then make them as you get additional new items. Enjoy your channel. God Bless.
For bobbins I quickly found that half a hair band was long enough. BRands, stir stick, and heat shrink were precut ready to assemble. After they were glued I walked away to let the glue set. Finished with a bit of heat and installed bobbins in them. Real winner for mylar and tinsel.
I saw some really fat yarn like that at a hobby store. I was thinking it would be good just tied right to the hook eye on a football head jig. Might look good bottom bouncing. I was thinking something stinky like garlic oil or Anise oil or Herring oil. Put a little in a zip top bag with some yarn worms and massage it around to lightly coat them.
I have some fishing buddies who get these off of me instead of rubber worms. They say it holds scents better and provides way more action in the water. When they get wet they get heavy so they are easy to cast with traditional tackle then.
Really cool DIY! I don't tie or fly fish, but I like this type of out of the box lure/bait making that's cheap and easy. But something I really like about this is no plastic. The irony of guys using soft plastics, filling lakes and rivers with garbage that's killing fish and wasting them, is aggravating. I'm no hippie, but millions of pounds of lost plastics polluting the waters is nuts. And they are forever. Bio plastics only break down into smaller pieces that are even worse. So something like this that is durable and way less likely to break-off is much better and MUCH cheaper!
I never thought of the breakdown of materials benefit of these compared to plastics. They provide so much more action compared to plastic baits, being safer for the waters is just a plus. Thank you for watching and for your feedback.
thank you, sometimes I feel like I dont explain in good enough detail. Glad to see this one hopefully hit the mark. Thanks for watching and for the words of encouragement.
The newest wing material that I have heard of was when a guy did a demonstration making a cicada, and he used charcoal grey landscaping fabric for the wings. A regular roll would last a lifetime.
that is awesome, you made me go cut a section off of a roll I have and am going to try some tomorrow. Thank you so much for sharing that tip. That is my favorite part of doing this channel is sharing ideas back and forth. I have learned so much from the people watching my videos. Thanks for watching, and even a bigger thank you for sharing ideas.
@@Ivegotbugsflyfishing You're welcome. Any time I see something new, I'll try to let you know. The upcoming videos on my channel will be tying videos, maybe some of them will have something you haven't seen before. I doubt it, but maybe.
Thanks for the video man. If, in a pinch, you need bees wax, I've found that a tube of Burt's Bees lip balm, found at any drug store or grocery store check out line, works great. It's not as good as a chunk of bees wax, but if'n you are in a pinch, lip balm works.
its awesome that you say that, that is what my daughters kit has. She got a tube when she was little and that is what she has always used. Great minds think alike. Thanks for watching the videos.
Yes! Thank you for sharing this. After seeing the first video, i immediately looked for the egg yarn because it's hard to find around here right now. I will check out that Hobby Lobby multicolored bundle.
