My fly tying videos range from beginner to advanced flies and focus on steelhead, trout, and bass... just about anything. There are also gear and technique videos in the mix. I try to focus on quality video along with quality content.
Do you find this pattern works best certain times of the season (early fall, winter or spring) or is it more any all year round pattern, and you fish it when water conditions permit?
With a large fly like this, I don’t find it effective in low and clear with stale fish. I’ll fish it any time of the year, just maybe an adjustment on color. I tie a pink/orange for mid winter to grab attention
Huh? PA has had its own hatchery program for decades. Also, commercial hatcheries selling fish to other states has no impacts on crashing fish stocks in the PNW.
This loop knot was the first one I came across when I was looking for one. What I found with the Perfection Loop is that 1.) it's awkward to tie and very difficult to get the loop the size you want. They usually end up too big. 2.) there are much simpler loop knots out there. I've ditched the Perfection Loop. For good.
With a bit of practice these are very easy to tie and control the size. the only “easier” loop to tie would be the double surgeon loop, but that loop doesn’t orientate itself straight off the mainline.
Thank you! I was stringing pit balls in strands and needed a knotted loop at either end. Fishing line is slippery, but this knot is the best! I remembered it my thinking of a butterfly: wing, wing, body, pull through!
Nice tutorial, thank you. The only thing I noticed while tying these knots that I need bigger loop in the final knot, because no matter how I try to make it smaller, somehow the loop still ends up quite big for my purposes. Can it be done smaller?
traditional English spider/soft-hackle wet fly patterns dating back 100 years were dressed far more heavily based on the actual examples I have seen...nicely done nonetheless and it is wise to tie this pattern and others with both a heavier hackle as well as a sparser hackle in different sizes in order to give the trout a choice...
Any creek flowing into Lake Erie will have fish. The PFBC website has a great Google map overlay that shows all the public easements and public parking
You could have casted single spey. No need for the poke and spray. The lift was already nice, if you didn't dip at the end of the lift, it would be ready to cast for single spey. Nice fish.
Nice video but please do not tell me how easy it is. I have been following your perfection loop video and after two hours cannot get it to work. This has led to a lot of frustration. Arbor knots, surgeons loops etc are no problem. But this one I cannot get. I appreciate the video just do not tell me how easy it is.
Here is another video with a thicker rope rather than fishing line… might be easier to see Perfection Loop Instructions | How to tie a Fishing Knot ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-idhu1CJ6nDg.html
