Really nice video. Truly enjoy the thoroughness and the thought that goes into each selection. Have you ever considered a “tie your own pack/kit”? Include all materials in a pack to tie 2 dozen flies or some set quantity. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
I have a video for each of the flies I showed in my box. You can find the playlist to all of those videos here. ru-vid.com/group/PLuLwf7ym7i7ZKJSrh7WP-pftvhmwIytMK
Do you really need only 4 weights for euro nymphs: ~0.2, ~0.4, ~0.8 and ~1 gramm? Is it enough to cover all water conditions/depth if those weights will be combined with different profiles?
Those are good starting points and combining those weights of flies are often good for most situations. But I've tied flies up to 1.5 grams for big and heavy water. That's the good thing about tying your own flies... you can create anything you want based on how it fished or how it felt. Adapting is the key for great fishermen.
Got a good sense of what is in your nymph fly box! Looking forward to tying up a bunch. Say there’s a hatch happening - do you have fly boxes with basic imitations for dry fly action- or do you stick with sub surface? What do you carry for drys?
Hey James.. If fish are rising, I definitely love to throw dry flies. Nothing quite like fishing for rising trout! :) But, that almost never happens on the streams I fish most of the time. If I'm visiting a stream that tends to have rising fish, I'll bring another rod for it. My dry fly box is pretty ratty looking. Most of the dry flies I have are beat up and old at this point and I don't really tie dry flies on my own. the river I grew up on was a dry fly river with rising fish almost any time of day so I really learned to love dry fly fishing... but I never caught big fish that way. Nymphing has found me so many bigger fish than I ever found while dry fly fishing.
...new to euro type fishing...so if you already have a pretty full fly box but are concerned you didn't tie them heavy enough your only option is to tie more flies or add weight...my question is what part of the line would you add the weight to ???...above the flies... between the a two fly setup...or would you do a drop shot weight at the end of your tippet...getting tangled is a a problem using weight but that's what you have to deal with if you're not getting down...tia...your videos are great by the way...
I’ve never used additional weight on my line because of how I tie my flies. When I steelhead and salmon fish I’m limited to one fly and will tie a dropper tag above my fly and put the weight on that. I would also think that drop shot be be a good way to do it!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with the flies you have confidence when fishing your streams and rivers. I have tied several of your stone fly pattern using the sexy legs. I caught several fish on them last year and I am looking forward to use them this spring.
The goal is to help people use flies that will work for them. The prices are a little higher than elsewhere but... 1. I encourage people to tie them on their own and provide video tutorials of how I tie these flies so people can do it themselves. My videos are very detailed on how I tie them and how\when I fish them. And I provide links to the materials I use so they can get the right stuff (not sold by me). 2. I provide a lot of detail about each fly that I do sell so that people will know exactly what they get. 3. They are tied mostly by me with some tied by other people I really trust so the quality is controlled and the flies will last. It takes a lot of my time to tie them and it isn't worth doing at low price points. We are not selling flies in bulk from overseas like many others. 4. The flies sell out and I can't keep them in stock so the market is there for whatever I can tie.
@@WhiteDogTrailCompany Find squirmy wormy material that doesn't have the durability of a actual worm and i'll start tying them again, till then eggs stonefly jigs and the san juan worm are my go to flies.
