Thanks for sharing the vid! I'll have to try out the bugger packs. Alex, do your local shops have any Metz Magnum Saddle Hackle? I can find them available online in the UK but not here in Michigan.
Excellent bug! After bending out a commercially tied size 8 hex pattern last year i vowed to tie my own on the best hooks money can buy. I am trying the Ahrex FW 570 but will check out the daiichi as well. Keep up the great content!
Great tying video, your techniques have been amazing to watch on your channel! Your use of materials and the explanation of why they are there are second to none!! I also agree with you, Joel's hair at nature's spirt is great!!! It used to be all I would buy. Recently, I made the mistake of trying Josh Varners hair. Whoa, it's next level. Now that my go-to, if I can find it.Have you tried it?? Thanks again for a great video.
@alexlafkasfishing Maybe next a missing link type pattern. Here it's my go-to searching dry fly pattern. I think it gets eaten for an emerging caddis at times as well as a mayfly. I've caught fush when both are happening. I only tie it in 3 different colors and mostly in 16 and 14.
I've got about 3 hex patterns I rotate through for the entire hatch. Some times it's day to day or can be fish to fish but if you've got 2 or 3 good patterns you should be able to catch 95% of the fish. I'm in the process of getting the spinner I like filmed now.
@ Yeah I’ve had good luck with locally tied patterns, like ones at Gates, but not usually with the commercially tied stuff. I’ll give this one a try, thanks
Hi Alex it’s me Emmett I fished with you a couple months ago with my dad I really like the bug
Thx Emmet, u warm up yet? Tell your dad to get busy on the vise and get some tied for you
Thank you for bringing this to us. Well explained and well tied.
Thank you
Thanks for sharing the vid! I'll have to try out the bugger packs. Alex, do your local shops have any Metz Magnum Saddle Hackle? I can find them available online in the UK but not here in Michigan.
I haven't seen the metz magnum. I'm guessing you'll like the bugger packs. They are the only thing I've found that worked
Nice bug. Not a night guy anymore but I’d roll that at sunrise. Come on summer.
Yeah, you can run it most of June and get bit any time of day
Excellent bug! After bending out a commercially tied size 8 hex pattern last year i vowed to tie my own on the best hooks money can buy. I am trying the Ahrex FW 570 but will check out the daiichi as well. Keep up the great content!
Thanks Paul. I've been there, it sucks. I have not had that issue with the Daiichi which is why I've stuck with it
Great tying video, your techniques have been amazing to watch on your channel! Your use of materials and the explanation of why they are there are second to none!! I also agree with you, Joel's hair at nature's spirt is great!!! It used to be all I would buy. Recently, I made the mistake of trying Josh Varners hair. Whoa, it's next level. Now that my go-to, if I can find it.Have you tried it?? Thanks again for a great video.
Appreciate it Dean. I have not tried it but now I'm going too
@alexlafkasfishing Maybe next a missing link type pattern. Here it's my go-to searching dry fly pattern. I think it gets eaten for an emerging caddis at times as well as a mayfly. I've caught fush when both are happening. I only tie it in 3 different colors and mostly in 16 and 14.
@deankrueger7178 I do have a mayfly emerger I'm gonna do that I run for most mayflies 14 and smaller
So are you fishing this fly pre-spinner fall searching as well as the main spinner fall?
I've got about 3 hex patterns I rotate through for the entire hatch. Some times it's day to day or can be fish to fish but if you've got 2 or 3 good patterns you should be able to catch 95% of the fish. I'm in the process of getting the spinner I like filmed now.
@ Yeah I’ve had good luck with locally tied patterns, like ones at Gates, but not usually with the commercially tied stuff. I’ll give this one a try, thanks
@bryanb-x1w that sounds about right