Good morning Matt ☕️☕️, That is a different head on that bug. And that is so cool 34° no bugs and you pull that amazing fish out on a Caddis. You are the man. Can’t wait till you get here👍
You and me both Jim! I've got one more fishing day up here before heading down. Next weekend... not sure where I'll go yet. Either the Gunpowder, or maybe I'll try another one of our local rivers. We have Big Hunting Creek which is near Camp David and where Jimmy Carter used to fish. I've had a couple good days there. :-)
Yep, that looks like a Matt fly, simple and likely effective. Nice fish, as my dad would have said when it was OK, good eating size. Keep the good stuff coming Matt.
Thanks Jim! And oh yeah, it really is something to see. Less than a hundred miles away on the Gunpowder and the browns (also wild) don't have the same rich yellow belly.
Good morning Matt. ☕️ and caddis I see is on the menu this morning. I’ll be putting this one on my tie list. Hope you show us some fishing footage while Jim and you are fishing. Enjoy seeing it. We are leaving next week to spend the remainder of winter in Arizona. Hope to be watching next Friday’s video from there. Have a great weekend. Take care.
Thanks John! Have a safe trip. I'll be in San Francisco for work next week, but should be back in time to get a video for Friday done. And you know I'll be taking my cameras to GA for fishing with Jim. Whether or not I get any footage out of it will depend on how we do. :-)
Great looking fly Matt. I knew that you would enjoy the book once you had a chance to flip thru all the photos. Since I've started watching your excellent instructional videos my friend, I'll be spending most of tonight putting together the new bookshelf I've had to buy to store the library of fly tying books that I've purchased. I have bought beginning tying to advanced copies, to books with 100's of pictures to tie so that my 2 great nephews will have all the reference material they will need when they start fly tying and fishing. They will will only have to buy a few materials since my friends at J. Stockards, Cabela's-Bass Pro, Fly Fish Food and all the other Fly Shops have allowed me to basically stock my own Fly Tying Shop!!! Again, the Savage River is looking mighty fishable as always. Have a great weekend my friend.
You sound like me with the overflowing bookshelf! I have one completely full with a stack of extra books about two feet high in front of it. I really need to reorganize it. I've got plenty of books I rarely ever pull out. They need to go to a backup bookshelf. :-)
Love simple flies that work That is a gorgeous looking river Matt And sounds like a good book review Thanks for the video Matt and hope you have a great weekend
Hahaha! Yeah, every once in a while I actually have the GoPro recording when I hook up with something. But just as often I have it recording me prospecting the water without any luck. :-)
I really enjoy seeing your fishing videos! Gosh those are beautiful fish.. I’ve caught stocked rainbows but would Really like to catch or at least see one of those. Nice fly also! I’ve been making bigger 3” (#4hook) black spun deerhair streamers to fish evenings and nighttime, offshoots of Whitlocks Night Stalker, and catching some good largemouth up to 5lbs.👍 I saw that Dave Whitlock passed away on Thanksgiving, a true flyfishing legend is gone. RIP. Have a great and blessed weekend my friend! Thanks for all you do Matt! 👍🎣✌️
Appreciate it Charlie! So you'd like to catch some wild browns, well I'd like to hook into a 5-lb largemouth! I may be taking the kayak out this weekend to some bass water so maybe I'll get lucky. :-)
Nice tie. Caddis work up and down the East . Always love the Savage River footage . Sorry I never fished it when I lived in Maryland. I definitely have to make time to fish it when I go North next spring. Thanks again for another great video.
Nice work. Love that fly. I usually add a little darker shade or dubbing on the head than the body. Just a personal preference. Keep up the good work and keep smiling. Thank you sir.
Super nice Caddis Matt, looked nice and fuzzy, just like a caddis fluttering around. That stretch of the Savage looked like a section of the home creek I love to fish, even the road and guardrails on a high bank. Colorful brown too, nice catch you trout whisperer! Hey, I left you some more info to search from that Shewey article on Benn. It's an additional comment in the Bekeart video. Have a great week end, go whisper up some trout!🤫👍
Cooll; thanks Joe! Thanks for letting me know. Comment replies to replies don't show up in my feed. Only new unanswered comments do. Kind of an annoying glitch on UA-cam. I just got back from a B&B weekend for the wife's birthday - down in central Virginia. Lots of trout water nearby but it was a non-fishing trip for me. :-) Now I'm off to San Francisco in the morning for a week of chem-bio conferences. But... next weekend I get a day on the Gunpowder. Fingers crossed for some good weather. :-) Have a great week my friend!
Great pattern for sure. Love the fishing at the end. Probably a third of my dry flies are caddis of one kind or another. I really like using a touch dub method with some of my homemade tacky wax. Very buggy head with that technique. Warmest regards Matt.
Thanks Mark! You sound like me. I may tie a huge range of dry flies, but it seems when I get to the river, some kind of caddis (usually tan) is what I reach for first. :-)
When this tie first popped up in my notifications, I thought it looked buggy; and it is! Good to know about the chapstick, too. Though with my luck I'd probably only be able to find a tube fancy flavored something my daughter left in the jeep years ago!
Hahaha! Mine wasn't actually "Chapstick," but a coconut flavored Burt's Bees lip balm. Hmmm... maybe that's why I only caught one fish out of that stretch!
Great pattern & a nice change from the Elk Hair Caddis. I hope you will do a review on that pattern book. It sounds interesting. That is a gorgeous stretch of water & a beautiful fish! The slo-mo of the take really enhanced the fishing segment.
Thanks Bob; I appreciate the note! I do plan to review this book. Some I only order one copy, particularly if I'm not sure I'm going to like it. I've vowed to never review a book I'm not going to recommend. (I think I've got several dozen books on my shelf that I don't like enough to recommend, so no review forthcoming on those.) But then again, some books I love (like J. Edson Leonard's "Flies") but I wouldn't recommend something like that to a casual tier. Or the Bates' streamer book you turned me on to. I love that one too, but only someone seriously interested in the history of the sport would really get much out of it.
Matt - This is great! I really appreciate that you showed how to tie the fly AND then how to fish it! (THIS sets you apart from every other fly tier on UA-cam!) Two years ago, I decided to start tying flies just to learn what each of them are. Sadly, I really don’t know how to properly fish the flies I tie. [Think about this… I subscribe to a monthly fly tying box subscription… I tie flies… but haven’t really fished them…. Yes, this is sad.] Could you go one step further and show how you set up each type of fly on your line… then fish it?
Thanks Art! You're not the only one who ties but doesn't fish. Lots of folks just like tying for the art of it. But I think fishing with them does make it more rewarding. As far as showing my rig setup, sure, I can do that. But most of my fishing videos so far have been using dry flies, and there's not much to it. Typically I'm using a 9-foot, 5x leader, but sometimes I have a couple extra feet of 6x tippet onto that. But I'll definitely explain my rig if I'm nymphing. But I'll keep this comment in mind the next time I'm recording on the river.
I have a bunch of "deer hair caddis" flies that I tie using the "elk hair caddis" technique, but use deer hair because I have a ton of deer hair and not so much elk hair. I also use the fine wire reinforcement technique, but, yeah, I probably lose these flies long before durability becomes an issue. These things float like corks. I do tie a lot of them with deliberately undersized hackle, I don't know if it makes any difference, but they do ride a bit lower in the water.
Great tip on the undersized hackle. Sometimes I'll clip it on the belly of the fly to keep it lower in the surface film. But I'm the same way with deer hair vs. elk hair. I pretty much use them interchangeably.
Hahaha! You wouldn't believe how many times I've not even noticed a tree branch overhead until I'm hung up in it. And the funny thing, sometimes I'll find about three other people's flies up in it too. :-)
BTW Matt, I will be shipping you the package I told you about a couple of months next week. A couple of the items have finished the drying process, I think you will find the reference materials to be of some help for your bucket list, enjoy the gifts when they arrive.
Phil- I can't wait! I just got back in town tonight and am heading out again in the morning. San Francisco for work, but home again by next weekend. I'll keep on the lookout for a package. :-)
Thanks for the OB Matt. Always appreciate the work that goes into these. I’m off out for some chalkstream grayling tomorrow. Do you get much grayling out there?
Excellent I've been struggling tow deer hair sedge all day ready for some Donegal trout.. Is the dubbing floating or will absorb water and would you treat the head with something..thanks again..
Thanks Gary! I definitely don't treat the head. And the body dubbing isn't really waterproof but it floats well enough with the wing treated with some floatant. Good luck!
Besides helping dubbing to stick to the thread, it helps some slippery thread get started on a hook (some tyers use super glue when they could have used wax for this), & helps the thread get a better grip when tying in hackle or fur, etc. Watch Davie McPhail to see how often & when he applies wax.
Matt, just wanted to let everyone know that may not have heard, that world renowned HOF Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Dave Whitlock who passed away Thanksgiving night. RIP Dave Whitlock and condolences to the family.
I really love to see the footage of fishing on the Savage.
Appreciate it Brian! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Good Morning Sir Matt, anice and easy great looking fly. You the Man and thank you for all you do Sir.
You bet Edward! Have a great week my friend. :-)
Good morning Matt ☕️☕️,
That is a different head on that bug. And that is so cool 34° no bugs and you pull that amazing fish out on a Caddis. You are the man. Can’t wait till you get here👍
You and me both Jim! I've got one more fishing day up here before heading down. Next weekend... not sure where I'll go yet. Either the Gunpowder, or maybe I'll try another one of our local rivers. We have Big Hunting Creek which is near Camp David and where Jimmy Carter used to fish. I've had a couple good days there. :-)
Nice fly Nice fish and great video. Thanks Matt
Appreciate it Daniel! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Fly of the month again for J. Stockard. You’re a real pro now. Congratulations. Nice deer hair caddis. Thanks Matt.
Hahaha, thanks Chad! That was my Christmas edition for them. :-)
Nice looking fly and nice looking trout
Appreciate it Jeff! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
@@SavageFlies you are very welcome
Great Fly Period, adding this to my box. Thanks Matt.
Nice fish! This is great to see the bench creations on the water
Appreciate it Marshall! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Excellent pattern and awesome footage at the Savage. Have a great weekend and thanks for sharing.
You bet Layton! Hope you had a great weekend too. :-)
Yep, that looks like a Matt fly, simple and likely effective. Nice fish, as my dad would have said when it was OK, good eating size. Keep the good stuff coming Matt.
Hahaha! Yeah, that would have been good eating size. :-)
Great quick pattern Matt that works anywhere. Thanks for sharing.
Appreciate it Michael! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Morning Matt. Thanks for the share. The footage of fishing the fly is great.
Appreciate it Nich! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Good stuff, Matt! Those Savage River trout certainly are photogenic.
Thanks Jim! And oh yeah, it really is something to see. Less than a hundred miles away on the Gunpowder and the browns (also wild) don't have the same rich yellow belly.
Good morning Matt. ☕️ and caddis I see is on the menu this morning. I’ll be putting this one on my tie list. Hope you show us some fishing footage while Jim and you are fishing. Enjoy seeing it. We are leaving next week to spend the remainder of winter in Arizona. Hope to be watching next Friday’s video from there. Have a great weekend. Take care.
Thanks John! Have a safe trip. I'll be in San Francisco for work next week, but should be back in time to get a video for Friday done. And you know I'll be taking my cameras to GA for fishing with Jim. Whether or not I get any footage out of it will depend on how we do. :-)
Nice tie Matt, and Nice catch. Excellent pattern, I've caught many fish with a caddis pattern. Thanks for sharing, and have a wonderful weekend. 😀
Appreciate it Jim! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Love KISS principle. Thx Matt. Have a great weekend.
Appreciate it Clyde! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Great video Matt, thank you. Great job. Whether it’s 34 or 84 it’s always a great way to enjoy nature. Beautiful Savage Trout. Congratulations.
Nice looking caddis, great looking brown trout. It looked a little nippy out there on the river. Thanks for sharing Matt.
Yes it was Lee! Just warm enough to keep the ice out of my guides though. That's always a bonus. :-)
Great looking fly Matt. I knew that you would enjoy the book once you had a chance to flip thru all the photos. Since I've started watching your excellent instructional videos my friend, I'll be spending most of tonight putting together the new bookshelf I've had to buy to store the library of fly tying books that I've purchased. I have bought beginning tying to advanced copies, to books with 100's of pictures to tie so that my 2 great nephews will have all the reference material they will need when they start fly tying and fishing. They will will only have to buy a few materials since my friends at J. Stockards, Cabela's-Bass Pro, Fly Fish Food and all the other Fly Shops have allowed me to basically stock my own Fly Tying Shop!!! Again, the Savage River is looking mighty fishable as always. Have a great weekend my friend.
You sound like me with the overflowing bookshelf! I have one completely full with a stack of extra books about two feet high in front of it. I really need to reorganize it. I've got plenty of books I rarely ever pull out. They need to go to a backup bookshelf. :-)
Love simple flies that work
That is a gorgeous looking river Matt
And sounds like a good book review
Thanks for the video Matt and hope you have a great weekend
I did have a great weekend Dave! Hope you did too my friend.
Nice fish. You prove to me that you do actually fish!
Hahaha! Yeah, every once in a while I actually have the GoPro recording when I hook up with something. But just as often I have it recording me prospecting the water without any luck. :-)
Great fly as always matt and had a CV great time with the nephew.
Appreciate it Greg! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
I really enjoy seeing your fishing videos! Gosh those are beautiful fish.. I’ve caught stocked rainbows but would Really like to catch or at least see one of those. Nice fly also! I’ve been making bigger 3” (#4hook) black spun deerhair streamers to fish evenings and nighttime, offshoots of Whitlocks Night Stalker, and catching some good largemouth up to 5lbs.👍 I saw that Dave Whitlock passed away on Thanksgiving, a true flyfishing legend is gone. RIP. Have a great and blessed weekend my friend! Thanks for all you do Matt! 👍🎣✌️
Appreciate it Charlie! So you'd like to catch some wild browns, well I'd like to hook into a 5-lb largemouth! I may be taking the kayak out this weekend to some bass water so maybe I'll get lucky. :-)
Nice tie. Caddis work up and down the East . Always love the Savage River footage . Sorry I never fished it when I lived in Maryland. I definitely have to make time to fish it when I go North next spring. Thanks again for another great video.
You definitely need to Ed! Thanks for the note my friend.
I would love to see some Adirondack Mountain fly patterns please! When you tied the one on the Ausable River episode, I was like, “I’ve been there!” 😂
Gidday Matt. Nice fly and great tips. Thanks.
Appreciate it Ken! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Nice work. Love that fly. I usually add a little darker shade or dubbing on the head than the body. Just a personal preference. Keep up the good work and keep smiling. Thank you sir.
Thank you! I could see this doing well with a darker colored head. Thanks for the note. :-)
Super nice Caddis Matt, looked nice and fuzzy, just like a caddis fluttering around. That stretch of the Savage looked like a section of the home creek I love to fish, even the road and guardrails on a high bank. Colorful brown too, nice catch you trout whisperer! Hey, I left you some more info to search from that Shewey article on Benn. It's an additional comment in the Bekeart video. Have a great week end, go whisper up some trout!🤫👍
Cooll; thanks Joe! Thanks for letting me know. Comment replies to replies don't show up in my feed. Only new unanswered comments do. Kind of an annoying glitch on UA-cam. I just got back from a B&B weekend for the wife's birthday - down in central Virginia. Lots of trout water nearby but it was a non-fishing trip for me. :-) Now I'm off to San Francisco in the morning for a week of chem-bio conferences. But... next weekend I get a day on the Gunpowder. Fingers crossed for some good weather. :-) Have a great week my friend!
@Savage Flies OK I'll email it t0 you. Sorry, you mentioned that before about replies to a reply... if I don't forget 😉
Great pattern for sure. Love the fishing at the end. Probably a third of my dry flies are caddis of one kind or another. I really like using a touch dub method with some of my homemade tacky wax. Very buggy head with that technique. Warmest regards Matt.
Thanks Mark! You sound like me. I may tie a huge range of dry flies, but it seems when I get to the river, some kind of caddis (usually tan) is what I reach for first. :-)
When this tie first popped up in my notifications, I thought it looked buggy; and it is! Good to know about the chapstick, too. Though with my luck I'd probably only be able to find a tube fancy flavored something my daughter left in the jeep years ago!
Hahaha! Mine wasn't actually "Chapstick," but a coconut flavored Burt's Bees lip balm. Hmmm... maybe that's why I only caught one fish out of that stretch!
@@SavageFlies It would have worked for Tarpon!
Nice job Matt. Beautiful little brown too. I’ll have to try some of those with the dubbed head. Thanks for the video!
Appreciate it David! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Thanks for the fly Matt really love the video
Appreciate it Marty! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Another nice one Matt thanks for sharing my friend have a blessed day
Appreciate it! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Love this caddis
Nice to see you on here, Matt ! Great Tye as always, Merry Christmas to you and your family !
Great pattern & a nice change from the Elk Hair Caddis. I hope you will do a review on that pattern book. It sounds interesting.
That is a gorgeous stretch of water & a beautiful fish! The slo-mo of the take really enhanced the fishing segment.
Thanks Bob; I appreciate the note! I do plan to review this book. Some I only order one copy, particularly if I'm not sure I'm going to like it. I've vowed to never review a book I'm not going to recommend. (I think I've got several dozen books on my shelf that I don't like enough to recommend, so no review forthcoming on those.) But then again, some books I love (like J. Edson Leonard's "Flies") but I wouldn't recommend something like that to a casual tier. Or the Bates' streamer book you turned me on to. I love that one too, but only someone seriously interested in the history of the sport would really get much out of it.
Great video matt tks for posting
Appreciate it Burt! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Matt - This is great! I really appreciate that you showed how to tie the fly AND then how to fish it! (THIS sets you apart from every other fly tier on UA-cam!) Two years ago, I decided to start tying flies just to learn what each of them are. Sadly, I really don’t know how to properly fish the flies I tie. [Think about this… I subscribe to a monthly fly tying box subscription… I tie flies… but haven’t really fished them…. Yes, this is sad.] Could you go one step further and show how you set up each type of fly on your line… then fish it?
Thanks Art! You're not the only one who ties but doesn't fish. Lots of folks just like tying for the art of it. But I think fishing with them does make it more rewarding. As far as showing my rig setup, sure, I can do that. But most of my fishing videos so far have been using dry flies, and there's not much to it. Typically I'm using a 9-foot, 5x leader, but sometimes I have a couple extra feet of 6x tippet onto that. But I'll definitely explain my rig if I'm nymphing. But I'll keep this comment in mind the next time I'm recording on the river.
I have a bunch of "deer hair caddis" flies that I tie using the "elk hair caddis" technique, but use deer hair because I have a ton of deer hair and not so much elk hair. I also use the fine wire reinforcement technique, but, yeah, I probably lose these flies long before durability becomes an issue. These things float like corks. I do tie a lot of them with deliberately undersized hackle, I don't know if it makes any difference, but they do ride a bit lower in the water.
Great tip on the undersized hackle. Sometimes I'll clip it on the belly of the fly to keep it lower in the surface film. But I'm the same way with deer hair vs. elk hair. I pretty much use them interchangeably.
Awesome fly Matt! Thanks! Hey, bobbins of various makes seem to fray my thread, any tips on a inexpensive smooth tubed bobbin?
You lose flies to tree trout? Funny, I thought I was the only one! 😅
Hahaha! You wouldn't believe how many times I've not even noticed a tree branch overhead until I'm hung up in it. And the funny thing, sometimes I'll find about three other people's flies up in it too. :-)
Nice fly Matt. Looks real buggy.
Appreciate it! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
BTW Matt, I will be shipping you the package I told you about a couple of months next week. A couple of the items have finished the drying process, I think you will find the reference materials to be of some help for your bucket list, enjoy the gifts when they arrive.
Phil- I can't wait! I just got back in town tonight and am heading out again in the morning. San Francisco for work, but home again by next weekend. I'll keep on the lookout for a package. :-)
I need to get myself out to the Savage.
You definitely should Stan! It's some beautiful water. :-)
@@SavageFlies I see you fish the Gunpowder. Maybe I will run into you there.
Thanks for the OB Matt. Always appreciate the work that goes into these.
I’m off out for some chalkstream grayling tomorrow. Do you get much grayling out there?
Thanks Warren and good luck! Not really any grayling here in the continental US. I think they're pretty common in Alaska though.
Excellent I've been struggling tow deer hair sedge all day ready for some Donegal trout..
Is the dubbing floating or will absorb water and would you treat the head with something..thanks again..
Thanks Gary! I definitely don't treat the head. And the body dubbing isn't really waterproof but it floats well enough with the wing treated with some floatant. Good luck!
Noob here, if I may ask, why the wax?
It helps the fur dubbing stick to the thread. It's not vital but does help. 👍
Besides helping dubbing to stick to the thread, it helps some slippery thread get started on a hook (some tyers use super glue when they could have used wax for this), & helps the thread get a better grip when tying in hackle or fur, etc. Watch Davie McPhail to see how often & when he applies wax.
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Matt, just wanted to let everyone know that may not have heard, that world renowned HOF Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Dave Whitlock who passed away Thanksgiving night. RIP Dave Whitlock and condolences to the family.
Yeah, I heard this too. He certainly will be missed by the community.
I went yesterday to Wilson Creek in NC. Kept fighting with frozen eyelets on my rod. No fish caught
Oh yeah, having your ferrules freeze up is no fun at all!
are you going to north GA
I'll be down there in a couple weeks. Not sure what rivers we'll be fishing yet.
I am in perry hoping to get there in a March Helen has trout fishing tournament. Can you .et us know what f.ys you use
Ty
thanks matt see ya joe and as always i will be watching.🦟
Appreciate it Joe! Thanks for the note my friend. :-)