Oh yeah. I've been tying flies for about three years now and last night was the first time I tied it. I've done a few Royal Coachmans but this was the first regular one. Winged wet flies are still challenging! Thanks again for watching James. :-)
Beautiful fly. The Peacock Hurl rope is cool. Appreciate learning that technique. As well as the tip for tying on the main wing. With that tilt and tie. Great video. Great fly. Thank you Matt.
Love your videos. I am learning a lot and appreciate that you don't edit all of the imperfections out. As a new tyer, it helps to see how you correct something that doesn't turn out perfectly the first time which is the case for me most of the time.
Hey, thanks Jeff! I'm about as good at editing as I am at tying. :-) I'll keep this in mind going forward but I really appreciate the comments (and encouragement). Cheers, Matt
Thanks Dave! It really was an easy one. But the next one is even easier... the video I made tonight (for Wednesday) is a Griffith's Gnat. It's only got two components and literally takes about two minutes to tie. Thanks for watching. -Matt
Thanks Stephen, and absolutely! I've only tied a parachute Adams a few times (the post can be tricky on the smaller ones). But I'll see if I can make a video of one. I've already got a few of this week's flies done so it might be next week before I can get one smooth enough to post though. :-)
Hey Matt. Just watching some of the older videos and I have a question. In the video you have a small white patch from the duck quills you cut off. My question is this, if you don’t have room to bury them could you color them with a sharpie?
JD- absolutely! I use a Sharpie on plenty of flies. Mostly foam bodied terrestrials like hoppers, ants or beetles but you could use it on any material that would take it. Probably wouldn't work for some materials like synthetics, but most feathers could be colored with a marker, and certainly threads can be. Some tiers will use mostly white thread and then when finishing the head, color the last couple inches of thread whatever color they want the head to be. Shorter answer-- do anything you want! Just have fun tying. :-)
Stephen- I'm going to do a parachute adams soon. I just received my last materials order with some post material. All I had previously was calf tail and I tried a few with that but they didn't come out too nice. I'm going to try making the posts out of a synthetic and we'll see how that goes...
