Very nice Tim! These Trout Spey streamers are dynamite for smallmouth bass in the local rivers! I tie a crayfish version (a bit shorter with lead eyes and pinchers) that has become my go-to pattern.
Thank you very much for your video -)> You have great taste for expensivive tools and material : I myself love those Partridge hooks. Afer all if they still are hand-made. Except because of having done field testing and writing about them, all of mine were free in 1990s. In the 70s their Wilson Dry Fly hooks needed testing before tying, Because they hadn't mastered Tempering? They would turn into a dressed "shank" !! But this is a thing of a past !
Nice fly. Personally speaking, i like the way Jerry French attaches the tail to the swing hook using the braid with R L R loops around the hook then feeding the tail piece through the big loop. Then pulling tight the hook and tail. -The hook rides up or down...like yours...it’s replaceable. Nice tie!
Love these flies. Polar chenille is great but just a little bit of rusty brown ice dub and some red/black barred Senyo's predator wrap in a composite loop gives a great gill flash.
Could you please explain why excess weight would be bad? I get that this would be for swinging and ideally your sink tip would get the fly in the zone, but wouldn’t the extra action cause from the weight also be good?
Part 2: PLEASE DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER, TO FIGHT THE BIG MONEY PEOPLE, WHO STARTED THE AMAZON FIRE FOR FARMING! IT WILL LEAD TO THE LOSS OF OUR PLANET!!!!!! We know VERY LITTLE ABOUT WHAT WE THING WE KNOW ALL ABOUT MANY THINGS, Such as Hatchery fish don'y grow to tropy sizes, and DO NOT FIGHT LIKE WILD OR NATIVE STEELHEAD!! WRONG