Tying a Bomber Salmon Dry Fly with Davie McPhail 

I've watched alot of other videos about spinning deer hair and your video helped me more than most of them

You were certainly right about one thing. These flies make a mess when you are tying them. I do love spinning deer hair. I have many more places to get good deer hair in Maine, USA. We have a hunt every year. I get my buck tails fresh off the deer, but it is of course cleaned and dry. I want to learn to dye them next. Feathers are difficult enough to get the right color sometimes. I am learning every day though. Thanks for sharing Davie. God Bless and all the best to you and your family. Sean

I always enjoy watching your fly tying videos Davie.

Every time I watch on of your videos I want to get out all my gear and start again. Truth is I am hopeless at it!

Thank you sir for a great tutorial! Your videos has always been a great inspiration, since I caught my first Atlantic salmon!

I keep the mess for dubbing,i have landed many salmon and sea trout in north wales with this fly.thank you mr mcphail.

I love this pattern. I've found it particularly favourable to cutthroat in British Columbia in the early summer when cast to create large surface drag on the river. Rainbows seem to love it too. Never caught a salmon on it.

I wanted to know to make these the right way for a while now... thank you for much.

Pleasure to watch and inspiring.

Another winner, thanks Davie

Bomber tying instructions. Love it!

If you can get carribou fur you will find your bombers to float like a cork. Best floating fur i have ever used. Cheers and love your videos.

ok thank you davie and felicitations for your work

Another excellent video!

Nice. Since, as you say, you don't tie many of these, you can make a nice cheap hair packer by taking an old plastic ball point pen ... front part, if it's one of those screw together types ... and enlarging the hole where the refill comes out a little. A box cutter or X-Acto knife will do that job nicely.

You are a consummate pro! another great tie!

Very nice work.

I have tied hundreds of these style "bugs" over the years and agree with "Blue Charm" to trim the bottom flat. I usually do not add a front wing. Mine are tied as "buck bugs" as we call them in Newfoundland. Three of the most popular "bugs" are the Green Machine" which has a bright green body with a brown hackle and another is the "Bee" alternating bands of black and yellow with a black or brown hackle. The other one is the "Orange bug" very light color body with orange hackle...I usually use caribou hair. Caribou is more buoyant and softer than deer hair. I also use moose which is stiffer than deer and perhaps a little less buoyant. None of the bugs have a wing. A tube, like a pen with the refill removed of sufficient size to slide over the hook shank makes an excellent "free" hair packer to tighten up the body. Be careful not to push to hard or you will push the body right over the tail and down the curve of the shank. If one was.making a " bomber" one would add the wing after most of the body had been packed with the pen or similar tube having left sufficient space before the eye, a drop of crazy glue can help secure the wing when tied this way.

Yep they maybe a pain to tie and yep there is a mess afterward but its worth it for that 20 lb Atlantic Salmon that you just landed!

The blue shirt DAVIE MCPHAIL , I like your video very. Thank you!

Thank you, Mr McPhail. I had a slight problem with your accent, so I turned on the subtitles. You should try it yourself. They are a scream!😂

a lot less messy if you tie a few at a time just go outside and trim them...that's what I do anyways.

Dandy bug there, well done.

Another "home run" Davie. I'll tie a few and see how they fish this summer when I fish Lake Ontario and the rivers that run into it. Best regards.

Yes they are a big job to tie but they work and in some very unexpected places. I just spent a week on the Guadalupe river in central Texas. The only thing that was working was squishy worms fished from a boat. I tried it fished under a thingamabob and it’s bloody terrible it cast so I went to a Newfoundland bomber and cleaned up. I had been told that dry flys don’t work on that river but nobody told the trout

"Вкусненькая" личинка (куколка)!

The story I heard was A guy was fishing for salmon and getting no results with any of the flys He was using .He took one last haul on the cigar he was smoking and pitched the butt into the pool in front of him he watched as it drifted down stream and a large salmon took it down . A this fly was the result . The cigar butt fly .

Cheers

I bet this will work on our Landlocked Salmon. Will have to tie me a few to try in the spring.

incredible how you can scissor trim deer hair so well

Hi Davy, just as a matter of interest, how would you feel about rating your flies for effectiveness and when to use them!

I am in the Chinese, I love the most is your video

This is the right way to tie this fly but I would use a foam for the body.

I so appreciate all your videos! They are so helpful - and reassuring. "Take your time" is my new mantra. Are you really using calf tail as you state, or calf body hair for your bombers? The calf tails we get here (in New Brunswick, Canada) look like tails and aren't flattened like yours. Thanks again!

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nice fly but do they work here in irish and scottish rivers

Davie with Partridge discontinuing the CS42 bomber hook what do you recommend for a replacement/equivalent? Thank you in advance for your help. - Jim

looks like a real pain in the rear😂maybe I should tie a bunch and get better at deer hair

It's funny that I was fishing this fly " the wrong way" but still catching á good number of grilse. I was "skate-ing/riffle hitch-ing it" but an American angler told me it was supposed to be fished like a dryfly for trout. I still use "my way" more.

Hi Davie! This fly is very beautiful and I really liked it. You also heard about the effectiveness of this fly here in South America, where did it go?

Hows it going davie, do you fish this pattern in scotland

Mr. McPhail - try using a regular dinner fork to push your deer hair together for a tighter body. No special tools need be purchased.

Une des plus productives mouches ici au Quebec, (Canada).

Hello Davie, could you answer me a question please? Do you think this particular patern can be use to catch carp and be effective? In Spain we use a similar patern bug withoug the fur and sometimes without the feather, and it's really useful with carps.

Davie thanks for this video. I tied one last night using your methods. My question is how do you measure the hackle? Does this matter? The one I tied it seems like the hackle is too long. Take care!

Nice bomber mr Mcphail. If you ever tie some more, try the split wing version for a more bug like look.

Can you let us know what type of super glue and varnish you use? I just started spinning deer hair - love it.. Thanks for the video.

Dear Davie, great video; Is that calf tail or calf body fur?

Hi Davie I generally use calf for my wings, but yours are more " slim " to my mind! What kind of fur do you used for Wing and tail ? Thanks ( sorry bad comprehension in english, more clear when i read ;)

wonder if this works on brown trout as well. we don't have a lot of atlantics where I am. but we have loads of brown trout, coho, chinook and steelhead.

Hi Jerome Marion, I mostly use the body fur which I prefer but you need to look through the packets to get the length you like as this is what I do... I've attached a link to some I found on the internet so that you can see what it's like... All the very best Davie www.flytying.ru/item1848.htm

You not only use Fly-Steamer Hooks. I use also Butthook´s it is cheaper.

All deer hair is hollow!

What's that hackle

bonjour davie. de quelle type de mouche s'agit-il, es ce une mouche de pierre ou autre chose merci.

What kind of hackle is that

Where do u buy your materials