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Definitely a fly you need in your steelhead box! Glad you liked the video.

Thanks! The tying desk was an anniversary gift from my wife. It is a great tying desk.

Glad you enjoyed the article and the video. Have a Happy Holiday season!

I hope the fly works for your steelhead trip. Please send me a picture if it does!

@ That would be a real good thing 👍

@@tomt5176 Steelhead for me are something that I have to drive to get to. If you hit the right day it is awesome, if not it is a learning experience. Hopefully you will hit it on a good day!

Hi Tom, glad you like the bug. I am going to develop something similar for smallmouths so stay tuned. Hope you and your family have a great Holiday Season! Don't forget to go and enter the giveaway (look for the post I made with my two dogs watching Rudolph.)

@ Thanks Rob, I’ll be sure to check it out. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and the best of health, happiness and good fishing in the New Year.

Thanks. Mousing is trending lately and I hope this pattern works for you! It’s an easy fly to tie.

It is called Edge Bright, it comes as a sheet and you cut a strip for the body. Most fly tying suppliers will have it.

My wife got me the desk for our 20th anniversary. It is an American Lifestyles (Amish Built) that came from a furniture store in Glens Falls, New York. It is a great fly tying setup.

On a heavy salmon hook it should ride point down. The IBalz are light for their size. Great question! Hope this helps.

Glad you liked it. The soft hackles are fun to make and you can get a classic steelhead fly look that makes for an effective fly, plus they are not hard to make. You may like the video on the "Smurf" soft hackle. I had a double-digit catch and release day on steelies with it.

Thanks! It is my favorite attractor dry fly of all time. I've caught trout in a number of states with it, including Alaska.

The sockeye is a reproduction mount I had made from a photo. Colors are perfect. Taxidermist does a great job. Caught that fish and several more on that fly. We didn’t get to Maine this year. Sorry the conditions were off when you were there. Maybe next year!

Thanks! Had fun putting it together. I have been checking out your videos as well, looks like we fish similar types of water in the Adirondacks.

Glad you enjoyed the video!

I will post a photo of the bluegill . I will shoot a video of it sometime in the next couple of months for you. Little different color scheme on it.

Usually in the deeper pools, but like a lot of wild trout streams, they get smaller the further you get upstream. Glad you liked the video!

For Ed Bendl, the man who taught me these flies, he trolled with a motor boat with a sinking line in the Spring and Fall. He was in his older years and could still fly fish this way. For me, I go out in a boat in the springtime and fish them with a sinking, shooting head fly line. The water is about 4-6 feet deep on the flats in the lake that are off of the spawning streams where the smelt are running. It is an early morning/late evening fishery.

@@brianfeeney9493 You get a brief window of time that goes by way too quickly!

I could do 6 months of Autumn 🍂

@@brianfeeney9493 You are welcome. I hope you enjoyed the video.

It is an odd fly I will give you that. It can also be made in orange like a newt . I have a photo if it will help, construction is the same. Good luck with your fall fishing!

@@robstreeteroutdoors8912Please feel free to post a pic of the newt version so we can see them both side by side

@@tomt5176 I'll post a photo today.

I usually use an interchangeable sink tip system that I made myself, but lately I fish multi tip fly lines with sink tips. Usually a mid rate sinking section. You don’t need to go to deep in the Spring and Fall.

You are welcome. Had fun on the creek this season.

Steelhead are a lot of fun. I've never fished in PA for them, have to try that at some point. Good luck! You should try smallmouths, probably can find them on some of your steelhead streams during the summer.

Best of luck and have fun!

Tom- I too spent the summer working on a deck. Painting and replacing boards. Thankfully, it is done and I can fish! Good luck to you as well.

I did fish with a guy this year who was catching panfish on Tenkara. I haven't given it a try.

Glad you liked the video. Should be getting out in the fog again this week as the river is starting to turn on. The only problem with the fog is that you have to be careful you don't get ran over by a 40 foot yacht!

Thanks! That spot is where I taught myself to fly fish as a kid.

It is a simple style of fly to tie. Shouldn't take too long. I've caught a bunch of trout in lakes with Ed's flies.

I am glad you like the video. We are out on a trout stream and I used the same kit to tie the flies I needed. You might find my tying videos for the General Admission dry flies useful as well. Easy style to tie and will match any hatch you will find on the road.

Glad you liked the video. More to come each Saturday!

I like size 10 on this fly.

@@robstreeteroutdoors8912 thanks

You are welcome. Best of luck on the lakes!

Hi Tom. I had a fun day for sure. I really didn't spend a lot of time on each of the pools. The bass were hot for topwater so I didn't change flies as the day progressed because the popper kept getting hits. I hope to run down there again. There is one spot I really want to fish again for sure. I have been using new streamer patterns that I came up with, and they appeared in Fly Tyer, the trilobal minnow. Bass and trout have been killing it this season. Brown buggers are good. I think the bass are still hitting crayfish and they usually switch to minnows in the next week or two if the water starts cooling.

I've never been on a paddleboard, but there are some good videos of folks fly fishing from them. I think I would be afraid of dropping something expensive in the water. Haven't hit the Sacandaga yet this year. I usually take the boat. Glad you had a good outing up there.

I have done well with them on lakes. They are an easy tie as well.

That is a Water Master raft. They are pricey, but very nice!

It is a Watermaster Grizzly that I picked up as a gently used buy. It did well getting down the creek and I also had it out on an Adirondack trout lake twice this year. Thus far I like it, but want to add a couple of things.

It is a great fly to have on a lake for sure!

I hope to do a drift trip for smallmouth tomorrow. I’m still decking’ as well so don’t feel bad!

@@robstreeteroutdoors8912 Sounds good Rob, hope the smallies cooperate for you.

Glad you enjoyed the video. There are fly tying videos for all the flies in the Warmwater book, plus many other flies on my UA-cam channel at Rob Streeter Outdoors

That was one thing unique to his flies. It is in his pattern guide that I have. Definitely works on the fish.

@@robstreeteroutdoors8912 I have printouts that I saved from the late 80's of Fran's flies. I could not find his theory on using orange thread in a lot of his patterns but I swear i seen it somewhere. When I started fly fishing, his flies and Art Flick's were my go to patterns. My first trout caught on the Beaverkill during an evening hatch fell victim to the "Usual". Now I live in eastern Idaho and fly selection is much more complicated and burdensome. I just may bring the old patterns back like Flick's Variants and Fran's flies and see how they do on our western trout fisheries. I have Fran's instructions including black & white photo's for the following patterns: Haystacks, Ausable Wulff, Mini Muddler Series, Caddis Series, Usual, Parachutes, Old Fashioned Bucktail, Pick Bodied Nymphs, The Beetle. He included his poetry in his writings. The guy had class, style and grace. I sure do miss the old time writers. Rob - I hope you have covered all these flies in your series. Thanks for keeping old memories alive!

@@wyomingtrout5581 I have covered the Usual, Ausable Wulff, and the Haystack. I have Fran's pattern guide book and all the flies you mentioned are in there. As far as them working out west, I caught a lot of trout in Colorado on the Ausable Wulff, and also caught grayling and trout in Alaska on them. The flies should work and I'm guessing if you are fishing heavily pressured waters they might work better.