Note, you should counter wrap the hackle to the dubbing, and then counter the wire through the hackle. I think I said that in the video, but wrapped it the wrong way. As long as a few of the wire wraps capture the palmered hackle it will probably be fine, but countering it would be the proper technique. -Matt
I think my favorite part of watching your videos is watching you show the real experience of tying. Let's face it, at one time or another we've all had a feather slip out of our fingers. Or caught the thread on a hook point. Thanks for keeping it real Matt I appreciate your videos and look forward to watching as many more as I can.
Cool buggy little fly. Thank you for not editing out the hackle slipping away from you. Nice to see how to handle that situation. For me personally, after 61 years in Southern Indiana, “dubbin” works. 😉 I now know where to go for a good haircut. If I only had hair? 😂. Seriously great looking fly. Enjoyed the video. This completes 24 of the early video days. 351 more to go, minus some of the present day videos that I have watched. Thank you Matt.
Wow Jeff, you're making a lot of progress with the old stuff. Every once in a while I'll go back and watch my old videos just to see how much I've improved in the last year or so. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can get better just by tying a lot. Have a great one my friend!
@@SavageFlies Hey Matt. We are gaining. But most importantly I’m enjoying every minute of the videos and gaining a ton of information. As for your changing? I can see and hear improvements in just 24 videos. But then as I’m watching your current videos, holy cow, it’s like two different people. Your video and editing skills are very impressive. This experience has truly been God sent my friend. I just hope I don’t wear you down with all my comments? Thank you Matt.
Hey Matt great bug pattern. I'll have to tie a few and try them out on the blue gill population. By the way I like the fact that you left the part where the hackle got away from you. The fact that you left that in just shows beginning fly tiers that even experienced tiers can have accidents or make mistakes. Keep posting these great videos I watch everyone of them even if I know I'll never tie them. Central Texas doesn't have a lot of trout fishing. LOL Thanks for what and how you do these.
Thank you James! I really appreciate the kind words. Now the good thing about central Texas, you've got tons of warmwater fish to target. And while a lot of the patterns I tie on here are geared toward trout, almost all of them will work for panfish, and literally any streamer will work for bass in some situation or another.
Excellent. I'm going to tie some of these up in a few colors, for ice fishing this season. And a couple other patterns, as well. You do any ice fishing, Matt? If so, I'd appreciate some ice bug patterns or tips, if you could. Your videos are one of my top favorites. And I watch a lot of them. Lol
Well thank you Kyle! I have never in my life been ice fishing, but if they use jigs and bugs that I could tie for the channel, that might be fun to do. I'll have to do some research and see what's commonly used. And if we can tie some, let's do it!!
@@SavageFlies Scud, freshwater shrimp, water boatman, damsel fly nymphs, and from the looks of ice jigs, I'd say cronimoids would do well. I'll let you know if I learn of anything else.
Stop cringing Matt, although I cringe when I hear my recorded voice 😖I like this format, great intro. You sound more "southern" in this video ;o) Geeze in almost 2 years you now sound like a celebrity host of a how to show 👍Nothing wrong with either production styles, your dedication to the channel is amazing! Thanks for doing this! Oh yeah the fly, heard of Humphreys, a lot, but not aware of this bug. I tied Ed Shenk's cress bug. But I'll tell ya, if you pull a Usual under water in the middle of a drift, especially in a good current, hang on for a surprise. I think the trout take it for one of those critters. Thanks again, those flies in the intro were awesome! 🤓👍
Ha, thanks Joe! I appreciate this note. This was literally one of my earliest videos. And funny thing is, I did like this intro with the banjo music. I didn't create it, but had a freelancer on Fivrr do it from a couple pictures I sent him. He did a nice job, but I soon learned that not many people want to sit through a 15 second intro. The longer your intro, the more viewers you have drop off in the first 30 seconds. And while I still cringe a little looking back at some of these old ones, what is somewhat amazing is that I did most of these ties in one take! I really had no editing software so if I screwed up I would just have to start over. And I couldn't speed up any of the footage. If I was doing this video today, it would certainly be a little cleaner and probably be a seven minute video instead of over 10. Maybe I should think about redoing this one. It might be interesting to compare my current style/format to one of my very earliest. :-)
I just checked, and yep, I sure did. I said I was going to counter wrap the wire TO the hackle, meaning it would have been wrapped the same way the dubbing was. But I certainly screwed that up. (Watching some of these older videos kind of makes me cringe a little, but thanks for pointing it out!) Cheers, Matt
Note, you should counter wrap the hackle to the dubbing, and then counter the wire through the hackle. I think I said that in the video, but wrapped it the wrong way. As long as a few of the wire wraps capture the palmered hackle it will probably be fine, but countering it would be the proper technique. -Matt
I think my favorite part of watching your videos is watching you show the real experience of tying. Let's face it, at one time or another we've all had a feather slip out of our fingers. Or caught the thread on a hook point. Thanks for keeping it real Matt I appreciate your videos and look forward to watching as many more as I can.
Well thank you John! I appreciate these kind words my friend. :-)
Cool buggy little fly. Thank you for not editing out the hackle slipping away from you. Nice to see how to handle that situation. For me personally, after 61 years in Southern Indiana, “dubbin” works. 😉 I now know where to go for a good haircut. If I only had hair? 😂. Seriously great looking fly. Enjoyed the video. This completes 24 of the early video days. 351 more to go, minus some of the present day videos that I have watched. Thank you Matt.
Wow Jeff, you're making a lot of progress with the old stuff. Every once in a while I'll go back and watch my old videos just to see how much I've improved in the last year or so. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can get better just by tying a lot. Have a great one my friend!
@@SavageFlies Hey Matt. We are gaining. But most importantly I’m enjoying every minute of the videos and gaining a ton of information. As for your changing? I can see and hear improvements in just 24 videos. But then as I’m watching your current videos, holy cow, it’s like two different people. Your video and editing skills are very impressive. This experience has truly been God sent my friend. I just hope I don’t wear you down with all my comments? Thank you Matt.
Amazing little fly to tie!
Hey Matt great bug pattern. I'll have to tie a few and try them out on the blue gill population. By the way I like the fact that you left the part where the hackle got away from you. The fact that you left that in just shows beginning fly tiers that even experienced tiers can have accidents or make mistakes. Keep posting these great videos I watch everyone of them even if I know I'll never tie them. Central Texas doesn't have a lot of trout fishing. LOL Thanks for what and how you do these.
Thank you James! I really appreciate the kind words. Now the good thing about central Texas, you've got tons of warmwater fish to target. And while a lot of the patterns I tie on here are geared toward trout, almost all of them will work for panfish, and literally any streamer will work for bass in some situation or another.
Excellent. I'm going to tie some of these up in a few colors, for ice fishing this season. And a couple other patterns, as well. You do any ice fishing, Matt? If so, I'd appreciate some ice bug patterns or tips, if you could.
Your videos are one of my top favorites. And I watch a lot of them. Lol
Well thank you Kyle! I have never in my life been ice fishing, but if they use jigs and bugs that I could tie for the channel, that might be fun to do. I'll have to do some research and see what's commonly used. And if we can tie some, let's do it!!
@@SavageFlies
Scud, freshwater shrimp, water boatman, damsel fly nymphs, and from the looks of ice jigs, I'd say cronimoids would do well. I'll let you know if I learn of anything else.
@@SavageFlies
Oh, and wax worms, blood worms, spikes.....and ill keep looking.
Kyle- excellent! I just tied an Ice Fishing Jig for tomorrow's video. :-)
Stop cringing Matt, although I cringe when I hear my recorded voice 😖I like this format, great intro. You sound more "southern" in this video ;o) Geeze in almost 2 years you now sound like a celebrity host of a how to show 👍Nothing wrong with either production styles, your dedication to the channel is amazing! Thanks for doing this! Oh yeah the fly, heard of Humphreys, a lot, but not aware of this bug. I tied Ed Shenk's cress bug. But I'll tell ya, if you pull a Usual under water in the middle of a drift, especially in a good current, hang on for a surprise. I think the trout take it for one of those critters. Thanks again, those flies in the intro were awesome! 🤓👍
Ha, thanks Joe! I appreciate this note. This was literally one of my earliest videos. And funny thing is, I did like this intro with the banjo music. I didn't create it, but had a freelancer on Fivrr do it from a couple pictures I sent him. He did a nice job, but I soon learned that not many people want to sit through a 15 second intro. The longer your intro, the more viewers you have drop off in the first 30 seconds. And while I still cringe a little looking back at some of these old ones, what is somewhat amazing is that I did most of these ties in one take! I really had no editing software so if I screwed up I would just have to start over. And I couldn't speed up any of the footage. If I was doing this video today, it would certainly be a little cleaner and probably be a seven minute video instead of over 10. Maybe I should think about redoing this one. It might be interesting to compare my current style/format to one of my very earliest. :-)
@@SavageFlies 🤠🪕Yee haw!
I'm going to apply a thin layer of epoxy across the top of the shank hoping that might give it a hard shell finish.
I'd say that would work Ken. I've seen several scud patterns using that technique.
Nice one bro… gonna tie a bunch of these babies!!!
Outstanding Rodney! Thanks for the note my friend.
you counter wrapped the hackle AND the wire?
I just checked, and yep, I sure did. I said I was going to counter wrap the wire TO the hackle, meaning it would have been wrapped the same way the dubbing was. But I certainly screwed that up. (Watching some of these older videos kind of makes me cringe a little, but thanks for pointing it out!) Cheers, Matt