Another great video! Huge fan of Cheech, the team and everything you're doing. Wish I lived closer to the shops. I'll keep paying shipping and handling supporting the brand.
Hey Cheech, love the channel. Love the shop! Thank you for doing all these vids... great stuff. One point of clarification, so take it for what it is worth. The Flav, especially on the Henry's Fork, is a Dark Brown -- not really an olive. I love the flexy floss body; very cool! The Flav (especially for the Henry's Fork): use brown biot (for the abdomen), brown Fish Food Bruiser (Brown) for the thorax, brown CDC (for the Last Chance version); and of course, the compara version with a darker hair. The reason for a darker hair is because the Flavs love the failing light during the evenings, so a darker hair is easier to see at night since the last color to leave the light spectrum are the darker colors i.e. black, etc. Beautiful fly for sure! Thanks again.
I don't know why, but I never fish comparaduns for some reason. I guess it always struck me as more imitative of a spent mayfly because the wings stick out 90 degrees, at least in the silhouette. Do people fish these as emergers, cripples, adult duns, spent, or all the above? What's the best application of a comparadun?
You are missing out. I been tying Comparaduns since the early 1980's a good 40+ years. Tie a sparkel dun for the merger, as shown here for the adult, and with you could tie it as a spent spinner. They are cheap to tie and with the threads like nano silk makes it fairly easy. Even if they look like crap they will fish and fish very well. Its a fun fly to tie. Its worth the effort. Cheech makes it look easy and it is once to tie a few dozen. Charlie Craven got a good video on this one, So does Barry Ord Clark just off the top of my head. The key is good hair, and nano silk or GSP makes tying a lot easier than back in the 1980's with 6/0 danville. That thread does work but you will break it.
@@GeorgeSemel , I've bought them, tied them, and they're always in my box, but they never hit the water. I'll have to make an effort to use them more. cheers.
I tend to fish sparkle duns, compariduns have sometimes twisted my leader pretty badly as the wing acts like a fan. The more compact sparkle dun wing cuts through the air and turns over better for me, especially in larger sizes. I don't know if this is anyone else's experience, but it is something that has happened to me a couple times.
Hey Cheech, pull an anti-static sheet through your hair stacker. Really works.
Another great video! Huge fan of Cheech, the team and everything you're doing. Wish I lived closer to the shops. I'll keep paying shipping and handling supporting the brand.
Hey Cheech, love the channel. Love the shop! Thank you for doing all these vids... great stuff. One point of clarification, so take it for what it is worth. The Flav, especially on the Henry's Fork, is a Dark Brown -- not really an olive. I love the flexy floss body; very cool!
The Flav (especially for the Henry's Fork): use brown biot (for the abdomen), brown Fish Food Bruiser (Brown) for the thorax, brown CDC (for the Last Chance version); and of course, the compara version with a darker hair. The reason for a darker hair is because the Flavs love the failing light during the evenings, so a darker hair is easier to see at night since the last color to leave the light spectrum are the darker colors i.e. black, etc. Beautiful fly for sure! Thanks again.
Good morning Cheech ☕️☕️,
Another great looking bug and explanation from the man👍
I like to rub my materials and tools with an unscented dryer sheet. Tight lines
I don't know why, but I never fish comparaduns for some reason. I guess it always struck me as more imitative of a spent mayfly because the wings stick out 90 degrees, at least in the silhouette. Do people fish these as emergers, cripples, adult duns, spent, or all the above? What's the best application of a comparadun?
You are missing out. I been tying Comparaduns since the early 1980's a good 40+ years. Tie a sparkel dun for the merger, as shown here for the adult, and with you could tie it as a spent spinner. They are cheap to tie and with the threads like nano silk makes it fairly easy. Even if they look like crap they will fish and fish very well. Its a fun fly to tie. Its worth the effort. Cheech makes it look easy and it is once to tie a few dozen. Charlie Craven got a good video on this one, So does Barry Ord Clark just off the top of my head. The key is good hair, and nano silk or GSP makes tying a lot easier than back in the 1980's with 6/0 danville. That thread does work but you will break it.
@@GeorgeSemel , I've bought them, tied them, and they're always in my box, but they never hit the water. I'll have to make an effort to use them more. cheers.
Well, I’ve been tying comparaduns since the 1860’s, but not this good.
I tend to fish sparkle duns, compariduns have sometimes twisted my leader pretty badly as the wing acts like a fan. The more compact sparkle dun wing cuts through the air and turns over better for me, especially in larger sizes. I don't know if this is anyone else's experience, but it is something that has happened to me a couple times.
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