Egan's Thread Frenchie - EURO NYMPH - Fly Tying Tutorial 

What other thread options can you tie with the sculpin olive wire?

Wayne S. watch modern nymphing video for his Euro rod. plus he fishes an ESN. he will outfish most everyone with a walking cane if he had to .

Brown works well, makes it look like a pheasent the tail, sort of...

Yeah man that would work, you can do whatever you want buy some stuff and experiment and figure what the fish near you like!

Tie it in gold. But hit the gold with a marker in the color you want.

What color purple/ brand of thread thread may I ask? Sounds like a great idea...

when sinking is the goal, tungsten outperforms lead. so the bead does the job. lets the body stay slimmer. i agree the big beads look goofy, but these flies do catch fish

nope, fish won't eat it

Brooktrout Angler yes, gold bead.

Steve Potischman wet your fingers when you start dubbing. And keep it thin with no more than an inch in length. You should see the thread through the noodle. Practice on some hook and beads before you tie the whole fly. Put your dubbing on and pull more off. When you think it’s good, pull even more off. Less is more.

Like Steve said but really really really squeeze the stuff and put lots of pressure on it until you’ve got a right noodle. Try to make it about as thick as the twice or 3 times the thread thickness. Roll it only in one direction. Use very little and make it long rolls. Keep it very wet. Crazy good fly. Used it yesterday in a lowland Utah reservoir. Fished it shallows into darker water. 15’ leader to 7x. Tigers and rainbows won’t leave it alone. The red dart doesn’t seem to catch tigers but it’s a rainbow killer as well. I have some old Gary LaFontaine dubbing and I use it for under bodies on this style fly. They all work great.

How long do you think we have been fishing this fly? Also, who invented the Frenchie?

@@FlyFishFood By invented the frenchie I assume you mean use modern materials (ice dubbing thorax etc) on a pheasant tail. A very natural development that many decent/curious fly tyers would try. I would say a lot of people took those new materials and used them as a PT variation. I’ve been tying a bunch of wingcaseless pheasant tails with ice dubbing (or any dubbing for that matter) for about 8-10 years. Who was the first to ‘claim and name’. As far as I’m aware it was you (Lance Egan). Who really deserves credit though? I’d give credit to these modernized mayfly patterns to Frank Sawyer as they really are just natural variations/developments with modern materials. I actually have an original pheasant tail (along with his other patterns such as the grey goose and killer bug) tied by Frank sitting pride of place in my living room and it’s simplicity is amazing. I even see people re creating and claiming the Czech teams ‘thread fly’ as there own cause they gone and put a cdc collar instead of partridge on it. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate your contribution to fly fishing and I don’t think you’ve intentionally ripped anything off. But so often I’m just seeing people make variations of other flies and abracadabra we have a new invention. Personaly I think it’s very hard to come up with anything truly original in fly tying these days. The closest I’ve done is my Glo Bomb which you will see on my channel and it’s a bloody disgusting junk fly egg pattern for migratory trout. Just because I wanted a weighted egg pattern I could use to good effect on a euro setup. Though it’s really a development on the glo bug so I’m very hesitant to claim it as my own 100%. I guess my argument is a bit down the old philosophical line of “If you replace all the parts of an old watch, is it still the same watch. If not then at what point does it become a different watch”.

Stephen Bennett you are correct. We assume you’ll finish the fly with your favorite head cement. I mostly use Loon water based bead cement. store.flyfishfood.com/Loon-Water-Based-Head-Cement-System-p/lnhdcem.htm

I'm glad I read this. I'm new to tying and had no idea I was supposed to use head cement. Time to go back on what I've already tied haha.