Swimming Crane Fly Larva 

Sweet fly! Saw this video before last spring and tied a few. I fished them below one of our local trout parks and SLAMMED smallies with it!!!

I'm not into fishing but the production quality of these videos are amazing. Great work!

clipping the belly combined with the mono framing is exactly what I've been trying to figure out; I just didn't realize it till this video. I've been stuck on tying an appropriate, jig style slumpbuster for a while, but I think this is what I was actually trying to tie. Though the slump buster jig is great on transition (riffle => pool/glide) sections, I will be trying this with some of the natural zonker I've got laying around. I've been drifting as an anchor fly and then jigging and swinging across to great avail. Thanks always for the super great vids!!!

Just SOOOOOOO F' ing GREAT... tyvm!!🍻

great tip with adding the mono loop to avoid tail fouling which can happen often and is rather frustrating. I'll be sure to use that on more of my flies, thanks.

Wow! This is gonna be awesome for smallmouth bass! Thanks!!!

I am loving your videos tham, you so much

I'm going to tie some in red - I think they would work for the perch here in the UK.

This fly is absolutely deadly. I have tried both jig style hooks as well as standard hooks and it is clear that the jig style is critical to the success of the fly. There is a night and day difference between the two hook styles and the resulting number of fish caught.

That shot of the fly being stripped looked similar to a crawdad swimming through the water.

Hello, I have a couple of requests since you simply make the best fly tying tutorials out there and I haven't found any good tutorials on these two flies. Bead Head Czech Nymph Pheasant Tail Flashback Nymph

Cracking fly. Re DA Bellairs comment good call, please post if it works in red, Perch I have found to be elusive on the fly.

Are you treating it like a streamer? Or more like a nymph? I know you said you dead drift it, "swing" it, and swim it.