You need to write a book on streamer fishing and tying for multi species! I for one would rush straight out and buy it. So much knowledge imparted in your videos
Gunnar, I follow your channel for a bit more than a year now. You have the most informative and didactic fly tying videos out there! I just wanted to thank you!
2 points: 1) Freakin next level thinking here, and it is so appropriate for our fishery in the Amazon. We deal with this balance scenario everyday, with the added challenge of customizing our flies to match our customer's casting ability. Great stuff amigo. 2) That tshirt is EPIC!
The rivers I fish on (Eastern Canada) are restricted to unweighted, single, and barbless hooks. No huge streamers here. And yet I find your videos (and demeanor) really helpful! Thank you so much for doing them. I will now order Ed's book. I wouldn't have known about it if were not for this video. Thanks!
Gunnar I found your channel not long ago and really appreciate your time and knowledge. I don't fly fish much but still learn from your techniques. I mostly fish for crappie and smouthmouth utilizing light lines and spinning reels mostly. Although you don't tie many jig type lures I still learn. Thanks again. By the way smalljaw recommended your sight and spoke highly on one of his videos. Take care.
I like watching your video on my TV UA-cam. Im just getting into fly fishing and fly tying! I fish small streams here in Illinois and Wisconsin with my 5 weight, 9 foot , clear water, Orvis . Keep the videos coming.
That was your shortest video in a long time, but it was jammed packed with incredible information. I should check out that book. Thank you very much Gunnar.
Thanks Gunnar! Definitely something to think about and and experiment with. Guess that I have been weight-balancing/resistance-balancing for years, without really thinking about it. I have a fly box dedicated to Clousers tied with different weights and dressings to suit my equipment and the fishing conditions. Now I'm going to have to do a "casting comparison" to make sense of all this. :)
Super fun topic. Would be a fun conversation to have comparing the casting side of weight balanced flies vs the fishing side of weight balanced flies....i.e. what is the fine line of adding too much wind resistance to a heavily weighted-little wind resistant fly to help the caster without affecting the sink-rate of that fly to the point where the fly doesn't perform the way it should in the water. Also, how water-weight affects both fishability, castability, and sinkability.....I think those are words, aren't they? :) I love this stuff!!
Really liking your thoughts on this. Along with weight balancing (wind resistant, balanced, heavy) and castability (is that a word) add to that matrix fly behaviour in the water (float, hover, sink, jig) and you have the makings of a book on fly design that isn't just a list of patterns with tying instructions like every other one out there. I'll look forward to it ;) I can really see in your designs how you're applying the principles for both casting and fishing but maybe not clear for everyone as it's across lots of vids. I have had similar thoughts myself, need to work out a way of doing it that's less trial and error in practice though.
nicely done. It would be interesting to see a video of your library, with some commentary on the books and authors that have most influenced your fishing and tying.
With large profile pike flies, I seem to find that the weight of the trapped water makes all other weight considerations meaningless. What do you think?
Very interesting insight. I like the idea behind the balanced flies, but I wonder about the usage. I don't know if sacrificing sink rate etc. of the fly for better casts is truly worth it. It will probably depend on the situation.
Had the same thought, a balanced fly would start suspending at a certain depth because of its balancing factor and wouldnt divebomb like a trad leadeyes fly like a clouser
Gunnar, which vice do you find more useful the TRV or the other one (Standard maybe)? I won’t be tying big 12 inch flies. My normal range of flies are size 10 to 04 at the most. Which one would you recommend?
Would be neat to see a video applying this theory, comparing the castability of a trad Clouser to a weight balanced clouser in relation to similar depth range and silhouette! Because the way i see it, regardless of weight balance you would still have to play with different sink tips to get similar depths (what im trying to say is that for castability you sacrifice in depth because resistance in wind also means resistance in water... right?) anyways love these fly physics vids man!
Gunnar - some GREAT thoughts there - Thank you! Maybe you can influence the manufacturers to ADD “grams” to their packaging ALONG WITH ‘millimeters’ and ‘fractions’.
🤔We forgot the first initial cast move on the -wet socks effect-factor over large patterns 🤷🏻♂️ Weight the leader by adding and placing in the right part of the leader the correct proportions weight on a cone lead it also helps over the- point of balance- concept. Another variant besides air resistance and wet materials weight, I don’t see here in the link’s it’s the wet socks fly effect at the lift, together with the a air/wind resistance in the actual fishing scenarios. It can be done but not as efficient as you guys try to put it. Wonder why not to do a short live casting demo in the real scenario, I know you guys can cast, why not to share it in the real scenarios, where wind, surf or rain it’s something that the fly guys encounter out there? Thank you for sharing🫶 I’ll gladly volunteer on the demo.
You need to write a book on streamer fishing and tying for multi species! I for one would rush straight out and buy it. So much knowledge imparted in your videos
Gunnar,
I follow your channel for a bit more than a year now.
You have the most informative and didactic fly tying videos out there!
I just wanted to thank you!
Thanks Sylvain, I really appreciate that man!
2 points:
1) Freakin next level thinking here, and it is so appropriate for our fishery in the Amazon. We deal with this balance scenario everyday, with the added challenge of customizing our flies to match our customer's casting ability. Great stuff amigo.
2) That tshirt is EPIC!
The rivers I fish on (Eastern Canada) are restricted to unweighted, single, and barbless hooks. No huge streamers here. And yet I find your videos (and demeanor) really helpful! Thank you so much for doing them. I will now order Ed's book. I wouldn't have known about it if were not for this video. Thanks!
Gunnar I found your channel not long ago and really appreciate your time and knowledge. I don't fly fish much but still learn from your techniques. I mostly fish for crappie and smouthmouth utilizing light lines and spinning reels mostly. Although you don't tie many jig type lures I still learn. Thanks again. By the way smalljaw recommended your sight and spoke highly on one of his videos. Take care.
I like watching your video on my TV UA-cam. Im just getting into fly fishing and fly tying! I fish small streams here in Illinois and Wisconsin with my 5 weight, 9 foot , clear water, Orvis . Keep the videos coming.
That was your shortest video in a long time, but it was jammed packed with incredible information. I should check out that book. Thank you very much Gunnar.
Thanks Gunnar! Definitely something to think about and and experiment with. Guess that I have been weight-balancing/resistance-balancing for years, without really thinking about it. I have a fly box dedicated to Clousers tied with different weights and dressings to suit my equipment and the fishing conditions. Now I'm going to have to do a "casting comparison" to make sense of all this. :)
Great info. The sport that keeps giving! There is always more to learn about building and making flies. Glad to see when you post.
Good stuff Gunny! I love how clear and practical you deliver information.
Super fun topic. Would be a fun conversation to have comparing the casting side of weight balanced flies vs the fishing side of weight balanced flies....i.e. what is the fine line of adding too much wind resistance to a heavily weighted-little wind resistant fly to help the caster without affecting the sink-rate of that fly to the point where the fly doesn't perform the way it should in the water. Also, how water-weight affects both fishability, castability, and sinkability.....I think those are words, aren't they? :) I love this stuff!!
Really liking your thoughts on this. Along with weight balancing (wind resistant, balanced, heavy) and castability (is that a word) add to that matrix fly behaviour in the water (float, hover, sink, jig) and you have the makings of a book on fly design that isn't just a list of patterns with tying instructions like every other one out there. I'll look forward to it ;) I can really see in your designs how you're applying the principles for both casting and fishing but maybe not clear for everyone as it's across lots of vids. I have had similar thoughts myself, need to work out a way of doing it that's less trial and error in practice though.
nicely done. It would be interesting to see a video of your library, with some commentary on the books and authors that have most influenced your fishing and tying.
With large profile pike flies, I seem to find that the weight of the trapped water makes all other weight considerations meaningless. What do you think?
Gunnar any chance you can do a review on your vice please 🙏
Very interesting insight. I like the idea behind the balanced flies, but I wonder about the usage. I don't know if sacrificing sink rate etc. of the fly for better casts is truly worth it. It will probably depend on the situation.
Had the same thought, a balanced fly would start suspending at a certain depth because of its balancing factor and wouldnt divebomb like a trad leadeyes fly like a clouser
Herein lies the challenge, getting a fly that both casts AND fishes how you want it. That's the grail
Love your videos..... And I have too say.... I learned way mor from your videos about physics than in school 😂
Great video! I bought the book using your link.
Feel like this would make a great addition to the 4wt Chronicles to test the limits of castability of streamers on light rods
Gunnar, which vice do you find more useful the TRV or the other one (Standard maybe)? I won’t be tying big 12 inch flies. My normal range of flies are size 10 to 04 at the most. Which one would you recommend?
Would be neat to see a video applying this theory, comparing the castability of a trad Clouser to a weight balanced clouser in relation to similar depth range and silhouette! Because the way i see it, regardless of weight balance you would still have to play with different sink tips to get similar depths (what im trying to say is that for castability you sacrifice in depth because resistance in wind also means resistance in water... right?) anyways love these fly physics vids man!
Gunnar, is there any kind of a formula for this weight balancing or is it all trial and error? So I see a market for aluminum eyes??
Ya know you should make a video about weight balancing flies.
Gunnar - some GREAT thoughts there - Thank you! Maybe you can influence the manufacturers to ADD “grams” to their packaging ALONG WITH ‘millimeters’ and ‘fractions’.
What bobbin you running Gunnar?
It's circle hooks OK for flyfishing and fly tying.
You still using epoxy on your flies?
🤔We forgot the first initial cast move on the -wet socks effect-factor over large patterns 🤷🏻♂️
Weight the leader by adding and placing in the right part of the leader the correct proportions weight on a cone lead it also helps over the- point of balance- concept.
Another variant besides air resistance and wet materials weight, I don’t see here in the link’s it’s the wet socks fly effect at the lift, together with the a air/wind resistance in the actual fishing scenarios.
It can be done but not as efficient as you guys try to put it.
Wonder why not to do a short live casting demo in the real scenario, I know you guys can cast, why not to share it in the real scenarios, where wind, surf or rain it’s something that the fly guys encounter out there?
Thank you for sharing🫶
I’ll gladly volunteer on the demo.
Good talk bud!