Tying the Corona Caddis with Kelly Galloup
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Watch Kelly tie this simple little caddis pupa imitation that can easily be tweaked to represent the most prevelent species in your home waters. This is the first video in our Nymph Category for the Kill-the- Corona Fly Tying Contest. Just like the Streamer Category there are no rules with this one, so everything is fair game. However, we are encouraging people to submit original patterns and to tie a little outside their comfort zone so be sure to use your imagination. Just as in the previous category, each person is allowed one nymph pattern to submit and we must receive your fly by May 5th. The winner will receive a $250 gift certificate to the shop and have a chance at the grand prize (Either a Sage Payload or Maverick Fly Rod or a Renzetti Presentation Vise of your choice) Please send your fly to:
Galloup's Slide Inn
150 US HWY 287 S
Cameron, MT. 59720
Corona Caddis Fly Recipe:
Thread: SemperFli 12/0 Nano Silk - www.slideinn.c...
Hook: Firehole 317 - www.slideinn.c...
Body: UV Green EP Trigger Point Fibers ( Z-Lon is also great too) - www.slideinn.c...
Rib: Natural Gray Ostrich Hero - www.slideinn.c...
Legs: Brown Emu - www.slideinn.c...
Head: Black Ostrich Herl - www.slideinn.c...
I love the narratives and have always defended them when someone says you talk too much, so please never change. The idea of a bloopers episode is awesome. At the end of a video, just to keep us in our place, I would love to see how fast you tie when you are just tying. I remember watching you at the Troutsman a hundred years ago.
instablaster...
Call it the Kelly Caddis.
Love this pattern.
That fly should be a winner. Another enjoyable instructional. Thanks.
I love your videos! Thank you for helping to pass the time during this difficult time. It’s actually a great time to be a tyer! The one thing we need is a BLOOPER REEL! Please!
I agree with Eric, a blooper reel would be a fun watch during this COVID bs. I'm sure Jonny can put something together with Jeremy!! 😃
I’ve got more dirt on Kelly than an excavator could ever have... I’ll see what I can do - Johnnie
@@TheSlideinn hahaha 😂 knew it! 👊 Cheers Johnny
Another amazing pattern done by the master. The control you have I can only hope to achieve some day. Being a "newbie" I will keep watching and learning and just wanna say thank you for your incredible videos!!! Maybe someday I"ll think my flies are good enough to send in!!!!!!
Kelly is unbelievably good! I have learned so much in a year and a half (and still learning) from him. There is no way you won’t get better watching him and using his advice. Some say he talks a lot..it’s because he covers everything with no shortcuts and even gives some history with humor included. My favorite tying channel by Far! Have fun tying and best wishes catching fish with your flys! 🎣
I’ve tied similar over the years using two materials. Green Antron or Z-lon body and black dubbing collar. Then pick out a bit of black dub on bottom to resemble legs. Its a killer caddis nymph you can easily tie in several colors. Stay well man😎
What a legend! Really enjoying these vids. Please keep them coming #FlattenTheCurve #CoronaBeGone #CoronaCaddis
Great series, I have learned a lot from you over the past few months. Added note as you probably know, UA-cam has awarded your virus series the infamous “COVID” misinformation tag which is beyond humorous and a little sad. Go UA-cam!
For some reason, this didn’t hit my UA-cam feed until today. What a marvelous lesson in fly design & materials. Thank you Kelly & Johnny. Johnny, besides being the videographer, do you serve as Kelly’s memory & memory interpreter? I hope you get paid extra! ;-)
Seriously your shop must be a wonderful place to work. Great teamwork.
I dig that body. like a reverse of Reece's fusion. I've been making bodies with EP fibers for a while (love the colors) but will be adding the wiggle from ostrich or maybe filo feathers (gotta use them for something).
gaaf !! eenvoudige vliegen doen het altijd !!!! opa
cool !! simple flies always do it !!!! grandpa Translation from Dutch courtesy of translate.google.com. Is there much fly fishing in The Netherlands? Or do you have to travel, like to Scandinavia?
For your contest, will you add a freestyle competition. I have watched you tie flies for months, because I am just starting to tie, and see your techniques which I try to emulate...but fail horribly, so I freestyle a lot just to get used to tying something. Long story, short...I have a ton of freestyle flies...some I would like to enter into that type of competition.
Nice tie . FYI Firehole are from CHINA I have a bunch in my box. I should have read the box before I bought them!
I can see this fly doing well... Can the legs be substituted with pheasant tail fibers? Thanks for sharing your secret fly...
Whose face is on the Jesus portrait in the back?
i wonder how many fly patterns with the words corona or covid or quarantine in the name are gonna come from this whole thing.
Did I see you wax your thread just before tying ? I haven't noticed you do this before .
Nano silk and that fire stick are slick. Wax helps to start it.
If I was a trout I would eat that fly .
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Ed Ward talks about winter time fly fishing as opposed to summer time.
Kelly had mentioned the fly tying and fly fishing work of some of the younger innovators out there nowadays. Many of whom will fly fish for a range of different fish species practically the whole year around. It was interesting to listen to one old timer talk about this too. Ed Ward has been mainly speaking in recent years about his adventure into fly fishing for species other than salmon and steelhead in the cold months, in the northern geographical areas. He has been featured in many of the broadcasts searching for pike and bass in what he terms the warmer water rivers and season. As the description to the video 'three weight sweet heart' put it recently in March 2020. The kinds of rivers that all of us have in our 'back yards'. It is well worth listen to Ed comparing the two very different kinds of fly fishing. And how much he enjoys going from one to the other. Where he described using the heavier lines and fly rods in one climatic zone to like 'going on a mission'. As opposed to his 'three weight' rod fly fishing for bass instead, as being much more relaxed during the summer times. I think that is an aspect of it, that I could sense too. When I had a look recently at what Gunnar was doing in terms of fly fishing in the Minnesota area.
Comments on Free Style Fly Tying.
I just happened to notice that Kelly also referred to the packet of hooks for the Corona Caddis, as being 'Klink' hooks as well as 'Scud' hooks. And that is the point at which things can become even yet more complicated to unravel. Provided of course, that one wants to try and unravel any of this. The Klink hook of course, was a further innovation on the part of the hybrid winter time grayling fish angler, and the summer time brown trout fish angler. Where they followed the Caddis life cycle from larva, through to pupae, and on to surface emerger. Where trout were taking the Caddis on or immediately underneath the surface film on rivers. This is where of course, we get these hooks now that are referenced interchangeably as 'Scud' hooks and 'Klink' hooks at the same time. The 'Klink' hook is most likely an adaptation of the 'Sedge' hook that came before it. The 'scud' hook, 'klink' hooks and 'sedge' hooks all together sharing one common factor. That is the lightness of the gauge of steel wire out of which they are manufactured. In contrast to the Czech nymph hook which really went for weight of steel as part of it's concept.
It is probably worth reflecting though on the place where the Klinkhammer style of fly originates from in Scandinavia. The best way for a north American to understand Scandinavia. Certainly from a fly fishing and tourism travel point of view perhaps. Is to understand it as being similar to British Columbia in it's relationship to the broader 'Union' of States that exist below the Canadian and United States lateral line, across the continent of north America. The continent of Scandinavia being joined now by a very busy and important land bridge at the bottom of Sweden. And places like Norway and Finland being joined very much to the rest of mainland Europe, via all of the different hub airports and places that exist such as Frankfurt International Airport and so on. Scandinavia is a place that facilitates the exit of hoards of European holiday makers at certain times of the year. Those who have a yearning to walk, cycle and drive into large open wide spaces. To enjoy what nature has to offer, and what activities are possible with a fly rod and fishing line. Because of that constant pressure of recreational anglers moving each season from mainland European regions, into the northern penninsula of Norway and Sweden. What one discovered in those places was an incredible amount of innovation in fly fishing and fly tying. And the Klink fly pattern and Klink hook style is as a direct result of that. Similar to the fly fishing innovation and activity that is witnessed along the western States from northern California right up to Alaska, and in places such as British Columbian in between.
The important point to reflect upon here is the recent nature of this evolution in fly fishing. No one in their right mind in the distant past would have traveled to Scandinavia to do anything else, except for Atlantic salmon fly fishing. However, as the sheer numbers of fly fishing anglers that lived in mainland and eastern Europe increased steadily over the decades of the late twentieth century. What you find are increasing numbers of anglers who will now travel to Scandinavia in order to fly fish for species like brown trout and grayling in those rivers. Simply to enjoy the experience that is available of just being out of doors, and enjoying everything that rivers have to offer there. For recreation and sporting enjoyment purposes. And this brings one to 'free style' as a fly tying approach.
I would need to go back a long, long way. In contrast to anglers like Gunnar Brammer, we did not have access to multiple species of fish in the old days. There were no fresh water bass or no pike here to fly fish for. What we did have however, was what I described about a country such as Iceland. We did have smaller river systems that varied along the lines of 'geology'. Therefore, in one river system a food source like the freshwater shrimp might be important for brown trout. In another river system only several miles away, it may not. What we did have on the islands in western Europe were these geological variations. Which amounted to the same thing as species variation from a practical fly fishing point of view. I would argue that in the case of Kelly's 'Corona Caddis'. The yellow or amber version is a traditional freshwater shrimp imitation. The green version is the Caddis larva. And both patterns, whichever colour that one uses. They are both good 'general purpose' fly imitation patterns. And that is the good thing the 'Corona Caddis' pattern.
Getting back to this idea of 'free style', in fly tying and fly pattern design. What I would argue is that the best innovations in fly tying have come from those fly fishermen who fish for multiple species. Not one species. Gunnar Brammer is an example of the modern version of that. Where it is small mouth bass fly fishing, it is pike fly fishing and brown trout feedinig on wool head sculpin patterns on the Upper Madison river. It is not one of those things, but all of those things. The 'Klinkhammer' pattern arose out of the pressure put upon those Scandinavian river systems, where the brown trout and grayling fish co-existed together on those systems. And hoards of European mainland anglers had traveled to Scandinavia in order to claim their little part of the outdoor fly fishing experience. Because those river systems were being hammered all year around, for salmon, trout, grayling and migratory versions of trout too. Those river systems were being fished all year around for multiple species. And that is where innovation tends to happen.
he does babble to much !
Again, scrolling down to this comment section. What I am looking at are various 'related videos' supplied by the cloud computer's artificial intelligence system. Of ways to make multiple kinds of 'hydropsychidae' caddis larvae patterns. And techniques of fly fishing to demonstrate how to use nymph or larvae patterns in the river situation. Oliver Edwards was present way back at a time when competition fly fishermen around the world started to develop this fly fishing approach. Back to when 'scud' hooks actually became a thing in fly fishing. We're talking really about going back to the eighties decade. Duran Duran era stuff.
One thing about the name 'scud' hook, which we tend to forget. I remember working way back in the late eighties working on a science project, to investigate populations of 'freshwater shrimp' present in different river systems. Depending on phd and nutrient content levels in one river habitat versus another one. Over in America, all of the river systems over there are so longer, complex and interconnected. I don't know exactly how it works over there. However, in smaller island countries on the west of Europe. We have lots and lots of smaller river systems, and changes in geological conditions. Meaning that a couple of dozen miles in either direction, geology can change and river habitat changes abruptly as a result.
I would compare it maybe to the east coast of America, where the mountains that run from the Southern States up to the northern States. Produce several smaller river systems that flow from west to east. And discharge into the Atlantic ocean. No one really hears about the names of these small river systems. However, in many parts of the world. That is what we are confronted with as fly fishermen. Lots and lots of shorter, and smaller catchment areas. And river systems that are separated from each other. Iceland as a place is a good example. It is shaped like a circle and there are rivers that run from highlands to lowlands practically all around. The whole 360 degrees of the circle shape of that island country. And all of those river systems are very, very different from each other. Some are rich and contain small lakes. Some contain large brown trout, some of the best in the whole world. And others are poor, and contain migratory species mainly like salmon. Some of the largest salmon in the world. Conditions on rivers change very much, from one small system to another.
The name of the 'scud' hook though as an item of fly tying material deserves a little explanation. These 'scud' hooks do not actually come from the 'hydropsychidae' caddis larve background. Rather, a 'scud' was a name that fly fishers used to refer to freshwater shrimp creatures. And again, the scud or freshwater shrimp creature, on certain river systems (in particular those river systems that have more abundant food in them), make up a significant portion of the diet of the fish living in those systems. I don't know how it works on larger systems in continents such as north America. But that is how it works in other countries. Where we come across a large number, or smaller river systems.
In the situation that I mention. It is really, really important that a fly angler understands that. Because if you find yourself out of season, or out of hatch on a river system. And the trout switch from feeding on nymphs and hatches to taking something else. Such as the freshwater shrimp. It is like the saying about the one eyed man in a world of blind people being king. The angler with any kind of freshwater shrimp imitation at all, or even a decent nymph pattern and ability to make it swim anything like a shrimp, is going to succeed. All others are going to suddenly find life hard. What we don't fully know about the 'Corona Caddis' pattern is what it is imitating. On a river where shrimp creatures are abundant, it may have nothing to do with Caddis life at all. And on other rivers, where the Caddis does form part of the feeding behavior of the trout, the 'Corona Caddis' makes more sense. It is hard for me to know, because I don't understand how this works on non-island places, such as inland north America.
Here is the thing though about the 'Hydropsychidae' larve in general. Oliver Edwards and other fly fishing innovators and free style inventors of the 'Duran Duran' era in fly fishing competition. Which includes a raft of famous names such as Marc Petitjean, Roman Moser, and many other greats. I am thinking about fly tyers from America such as Rene Harrup. Oliver Edwards was working to make fly fishing more accessible at the time, in river systems in places like Yorkshire in his native England. Rivers that really weren't chalkstreams. Rather, they were on the opposite end of the spectrum to the chalkstream. They were rivers that had a lot more in common with the Scandinavian environment (i.e. the parts of the world, where fly fishing for salmon and migratory species takes precedence). That is really where the Hydropsychidae came into it. It offered a sustained source of food for trout in systems, where a freshwater shrimp would have been more rare. Freshwater shrimp or freshwater snails too, a staple of trout in richer river systems subsurface. Those would have been luxuries, that were not available to feeding brown trout. That is when we really find trout turning towards Caddis larvae. Which can survive in those relatively poorer water habitats. Or lake systems.