McTages Foam Trouser Worm Carp Fly Tying Video
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2013
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Instructional video for tying the Foam Trouser Worm carp fly. This carp fly is made with a tail made out of foam beads on a thread. The floating tail in combination with the weighting scheme creates a carp fly with an extremely robust head-stand and extremely unique action under water..
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McTage from Fly-Carpin today we are going to tie my foam Trouser Worm. List of ingredients. We gonna start with some flat waxed red nylon, some scorpion gaper size 6 hooks and some 3.25mm black brass beads. Im going to go on ahead and put on a brass bead in the classical orientation with the tapered hole facing aft. Build a thread base going backwards past the hook point and were going to add a number 6 stainless bead-chain eye just above the hook point. Figure eight that on, you will notice that the barb is pinched on this hook, you can't even get the brass bead on if you don't pinch the barb with this hook, its a very heavy gauge hook. Ok we have put our eyes on, were going to work the thread back well down the hook bend, matter of fact all the way until is starts to bend back forward and then we are going to add some 15 pound red amnesia. This is going to be about an eight inch long length of amnesia, and we are going to overwrap it working forward. We are going to work our thread all the way back behind the bead-chain eyes and then back down the bend of the hook. It is going to build us a little bit of a body at the same time as latching down the Amnesia.
We are going to make a foam tail, starting with some big fly thread, red, and double the thread. Tie a double surgeons loop, tighten it down and we are going to tie another double surgeons over the same knot, tighten it down and trim it. That is going to be our stopper knot.
I am going to add an extra small glass bead, a 2.7mm black brass bead in the order shown. I am gonna take some UV Knot sense and kinda glue these two beads and the stopper knot together and the final cured end will look like that. Ok, now we are going to make 14 foam beads with an 1/8" inch hole punch, and we are going to pre-peirce these beads with a bodkin. That will help you get the hole centered, and we are going to string them on a needle and then transfer the beads onto our thread that already has our plug on the end. Here we have a finished tail.
I am going to add the tail onto the fly. I am going to tie it on down towards the end of our thread body with a pretty substantial gap between the hookshank and the first foam plug. Work our thread forward. Now we are going to adjust that gap.
So if you fold over some of this foam you will have a 1/8" feeler gauge if you will and you can tighten it up and get about the right gap on the aft end and then fold the thread back and wrap it back down the shank a little bit. That will keep it from sliding any more.
Then we are going to do the body with the red Amnesia. Wrap the body. Start with one wrap. Working just a little forward wrap again and keep on wrapping all the way to behind the bead-chain eyes. In just a second here I am going to go into fast forward.
Fast Forward.
Alright. Once again working it all the way to behind the bead-chain, take one or two wraps to latch it down behind the bead-chain with your thread and we are going to pull it forward and latch it down behind the brass bead.
Going to go on ahead and trim the Amnesia and finish the head section with two whip finishes. And um laugh, got a bit of a thread blow up on this example. You have to be carefull to not hit the holes in the beadchain eyes with your thread when you are doing this. That is what happened to me on this particular fly. But, it is double wrapped, it's double whipped, the fly is strong.
OK, now we are going to show some bathtub video. Show kindof what this fly looks like in the water. I have updated this fly to have the brass bead all the way on the end of the tail. That adds a little bit of weight that gives the tail just a little bit more action.
Alright. Last kindof couple of directions. Moving away from us. Pretty interesting looking. Nice action. And on a swim. - Спорт
Fabulous, thank you! This fly works so well I felt a bit guilty! I took some liberties (due to my own laziness) like skipping the bodkin (my foam tool itself holder helped get each little disc onto the needle), using red vinyl instead of amnesia, using two small glass beads/no metal bead on the tail, used 12 discs, quadrupled 6/0 thread instead of big game thread to make the tail, and used a similar hook (it looks very similar to the end product). It’s cheap and doesn’t take long to tie. Thanks for sharing this recipe, Fly-Carpin.
Thank MrOnlyfly. I am pretty proud of the originality.
Thanks Zach. Digging some of your flies as well!
i see for the first time this tying !very original!compliment!
This is a seriously genius pattern....
Love that worm, really interesting use of materials, thanks for showing! Great to see the bath tub demo too, looks the business!
Alan P Thanks, a fly isn't a fly till it's wet!
Alan P I agree 100%. So many fly videos out there with the new breakthrough fly. You tie one that looks great to test it and it performs horribly. This fly looks and performs great.
Awesome how it´s moving.Imprescindible with the barbel and the carp in Spain at least¡
That's F'ing awesome! Great tie, great info! Thumbs up!
Daniel A Thanks man, it's my most creative tie, no doubt about it. Really appreciate the feedback!
Interesting. I sure do like the modifications you have made ... you've really fine-tuned it.
I'm hoping for a saltwater application ... Atlantic Croaker. I did not get to target them last season. Will let ya know what happens.
excelente !!!!!!!!!
I laughed at the bathtub video. It looks very cartoonish. I bet it's deadly on carp though, I'll give it a try!
As far as salt water, what about those worm events for Stripers, and Tarpon. This is a great looking pattern, I am going to try out a red and a brown version,
You do a very nice tying video. I hate it when one can't even see the fly till 14 minutes of video have rolled by. You have a good pic, a good recipe and your tying video looks professional or better. There are a few very well known writers who do like a book a year, but their sample flies look lifeless like they were tied in Africa in the sixties.
Thanks for the feedback @Hondo Trailside. These videos are fairly hard to produce, feels great to get positive comments.
Usually I agree. I have just caught so many carp on this and the leather trouser worm both using the stainless that I have decided it is not a big deal here. I have tried black beadchain and in addmitedly limited testing did not notice a difference.
Trevor, why the "stainless" (shiny) bead-chain ... usually carp R not real partial to anything flashy. Why not black bead-chain also, like the front bead. Just curious.
Msquad321 - That would be really interesting if it had saltwater appliations.
This reminds me of the squirrel off of ice age.
a ned rig look
Holy damn that's sexy... Like it bud big ups
Useful for blind casting?
Yes TheSpedds, I have caught quite a few carp on this blind casting, both dead drifting it under and indicator and slow stripping it through slow deep pools.
Thank you
sub the big fly thread for 20lb braid, and sub the 2 brass beads at the end of the tail with a stinger hook. Boom! mind blown. (if its legal in your area)
I like your style. It would probably be a critical change if you wanted to use it for Trout. For carp it might help balance the fly with less weight which would help a little but short striking is not a problem carp have at all. They are such efficient predators that they are either going to manage to fully inhale something or they don't bother. That stinger might give you a fraction of a second more time to set the hook though. I like the idea.
I laughed at the bathtub video. It looks very cartoonish. I bet it's deadly on carp though, I'll give it a try!