Tying the Casual Dress with Kelly Galloup 

I just borrowed Polly’s book, “Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs”, from my local fly shop. The owner actually drove all the way from Canada to Pennsylvania to fish and tie with Polly in the 60’s! It's crazy to see everything come full circle in terms of me stumbling upon his shop, having him introduce me to Polly’s book/patterns and then within a week I see your videos to seal the deal and accelerate my growth that much more! Learning the history of these patterns will always be cherished by me. Thank you, Kelly, for tying and posting this video for us! it's safe to say that others and myself included will forever be better fly tyers as well as fishermen because of you! Take care and tight lines!

I haven’t looked at Joe Brooks’ “Trout” in years - thanks for reminding me what a great book it is! It was actually the book that introduced me to fly fishing and one that I read cover-to-cover several times when I first bought it. Brooks was my early FF hero! 😁🎣

Just combined the Staynerv Duck Fly with the Carey Special …think I have a winner here! If you are not familiar with the Stayner Duck fly pattern, I found it online…many say they choose it if they could only have one pattern! The casual dress is definitely a classic trout catcher! Really like your version! Thanks!

Cool looking fly! Gonna give that one a try.

Brooks is a legend, and "Trout" is as well. I agree, Whitlock's dubbings are awesome. Thanks for another great video Kelly and Jeremy.

This version is quite reminiscent of a Gartside Sparrow--another classic, all around wet fly.

Beautiful tie Kelly. I remember tying these back in the day along with Cal Birds Birds Nest which was similarly tied. Conventional wisdom then said they were imitating caddis, but I didn’t catch squat on either of them at the time. Years (maybe decades) later, I actually learned how to fish them and found them remarkable and use them today, particularly when fishing heavy, deep water (lower Sac, SF, MO) but they also work like crazy on trout Spey, if you dig that sort of thing.

Thanks for your beautiful tie of this classic pattern. Since I'm guessing some viewers may not know of it, I'll offer this bit of attribution and history: the Casual Dress was originated by legendary Oregon tyer E.H. "Polly" Rosborough and featured in his classic 1969 book "Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs". The tyer of the amazing flies in the plates you featured from Joe Brooks' "Trout Fishing" was Bob "Granny" Granstrom, who was a protégé of Mr. Rosborough. Mr. Granstrom was a young tyer well known in the Klamath Falls, OR area when he met Polly Rosborough in the early 1960s, and Polly became something of a mentor to him. Mr. Granstrom became an expert tyer of the original Rosborough patterns, as the book plates demonstrate. By the way, for those who want to try their hand at the original dressing, a good version can be found in Randall Kaufmann's book "Tying Nymphs". Thanks again for another great video.

Thanks from down-under in NZ. Love the colour combinations and looks ideal for some of my larger deep pools. Wish we had squirrels in NZ but there are plenty of Opposums so will substitute the materials and see how it goes. Kindest regards.

Great tie. I was thinking “hmmm, a potential Steelhead fly” when you said the magic “S” word and seriously caught my attention. I know what will be in my vice tonight. Many thanks.

Kelly decided to wear his leather pants to the office today

That sure looks like it will come to life in the water.

Kelly, this really takes me back to the late 60's one of the first flies I tied and caught fish on. I learned the pattern from Polly Rosborough's book. Over the years I've caught many trout on this in the mountain streams of Pennsylvania. I still use it today from time to time, even added a bead head to them. Enjoying your videos, this one really brought back a lot of good times for me !

We often forget those older patterns, thinking we need to use the latest ones. Thanks again for that amazing video, with the traditional story part! That the cherry on top!

The addition of the hackle makes it seem quite similar to the Gartside Sparrow. Always felt these two patterns were very close solutions to the same problem. Must say I like your amalgamation of the two patterns weather done on purpose or not.

Great version of a classic Kelly. Between you and Davie McPhail there is just a ton of great material to continually improve my tying. Thanks as always.

Seeing you tie one of Joe's flies using my tool was a special treat! Thanks so much, I need to find my copy of that book!

Great video, Kelly. Got the Brooks book this week! And then I tied this fly. Sexy, over-dressed fly for this "euro trash" nympher 😂 but I think it will be a good trout spey fly this season. 🌟

Kelly I like that one and I'm going to use it my kinda fly .Old school like me I fish streamers they're fish getters thanks for this one

One of my best go to Great Lakes steelhead flies with a bead head on it also !

this looks like a great shallow water carp fly

What’s the name of the book

Thanks for sharing!

Where do you get full pine squirrels pelts

Polly Rosborough used to come into the Caddisfly Angling Shop in Eugene, Oregon and conduct fly tying classes. He tied flies the way he always did...between his thumb and index fingertips and "a long piece'a string". He never had a vise or the tools we all use (most hadn't been invented yet and he couldn't afford the others. Still, he handled the hook, materials and thread as deftly and as proficiently as anyone else

I would call that a Gartside Sparrow more than a Rosborough Casual Dress. Both very similar to each other.

Great looking fly....I bet this is super effective. I can see all kinds of variants for this basic design. TY MH

Kelly Do you have a pattern for the western brown drake? I fish silver creek and I am looking for a pattern to use as a dry fly. Dick

Can't say I've ever heard of this fly before, but then I'm not much of a trout fisherman. All in all a pretty neat fly. Keep the good stuff coming Kelly I do enjoy your videos especially the explanations of why you do things, and no you don't talk too much you impart knowledge. Thanks.

Sharp dressed. Great lookin' pattern, killer tying techniques.

I love historical patterns and love seeing you dress them up. It's not historical but would love to see you church up one of my favorites...the guides choice.

Thanks for the vid. Which model CLAM shelter is that? Do you know how much it weighs? :-)

Thanks Kelly! I started fly tying in 1969 and fly fishing in 1972 and have tied many different flavors of this style of fly. I use dubbing loops for almost everything. I loved your use of pine squirrel. It’s a gorgeous fly. I’ll tie some like this and put them in my Stillwater box for alpine lakes.

Love the new camera angle. I keep going back to old flies. Our dries are better now but the nymphs and sets from the old days just work.

Cool. They look buggy for serious!

Great looking fly and great video. The fly reminds me a lot of the Gartside Sparrow, which has been very productive for me. I'll be trying it soon.

Gorgeous. After you got through tying the fly, I think you upgraded it from Casual Dress to prom level. Superb. Much respect.

Thanks for this one. I first saw the Casual Dress in Paul Jorgensen's Trout fly charts. I have tied lot of these. There are days I can outfish the Euro guys with it on any freestone .I had part of a Australian Possum hide in the Mid 70"s as a kid and have always used that material for the nymph.

I bet the original color in a large size would make a decent cranefly larva pattern.

is this book your talking about still out there to be bought....or a like to it thanks.

Thanks from Sweden. I’ll use this to build bulk in streamer heads.

Thanks for this tye. It's been a favorite of mine for years. I am going to add the hackle as I have never seen that on this Fly before.

Nice versatile fly , I like this version and the badger looks good to . Thanks

Another awesome fly thanks for tying this one for us and tell us about the Trout Book.

Now We all have even more reasons to love Fridays !Thanks for another great video..

Kelly I have a lot of porcupine is that good stuff it is nice 👍

Very nice looking fly do you use porcupine to tie with

Thanks Kelly awesome video and fly tite lines

Great fly, Thanks Kelly!

Very cool fly! Gonna give it a go.

Thanks Kelly.

awesome pattern.

Thanks

This would be money with mallard flank. Great tie.

Love the old school flies. Looks the same family of flies as a Carey Special or Gartside sparrow. Have you ever tried traditional or variations of Irish and Scottish flies here out West?