Streamer Fly Tying - Shirk's Jack Knife
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- This is a pattern I developed in 2022 and have been tweaking since. Great to fish on the two-hand burn as well as a normal strip cadence. If you're into streamer fishing for brown trout and smallmouth bass this will be one you want to load into the box.
Trout Size Chasis
Tail shank, #6 Ahrex NS172, 15mm Shank, #1 AHREX TP 610
Smallmouth Chasis
Tail shank, #4 Ahrex NS172, 20mm Shank, #1/0 AHREX TP 610
Materials
Tail shank: Flash (any), Hackle Tails (Whiting American, Keough, Ewing), Support (finesse Chenille), Hen Saddle (Whiting American), Mallard Flank Cap
2nd & 3rd section: Same as tail Shank, 15lb mono connection for tail shank to NS172
Head: 20lb Mono Connection, Plastic Rattle, Large Finesse Chenille, Polar Chenille, 3 Mallard Flanks, Flash, REverse Tied BUcktail, Palmered Marabou, Brush head, Palmered schlappen
Enjoy! Hit me up with any questions.
/ jackshirkflyfishing
Appreciate you taking the time to put this together! This is def one of those patterns you can’t replicate just from looking at it - a lot going on under the hood. Very cool bug
Appreciate that man! Yea its got a laundry list of materials but all have a purpose and it is a ton of fun to fish. Casts great as well. Just enough water retention in the back to give you some carry but plenty of synthetics that shed water on the first backcast.
Nice looking pattern
@@oldsmugglerflyfishing thanks man appreciate it
Excellent video Jack, I have been watching you from Brazil, and your technique is pretty good, keep doin a good job!
@@savuptv2124 thanks man appreciate the support!
This is a cool fly for fly fishing wow
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What is the significance of the middle shank? Additional hook spacing or swim perhaps?
@@FringeLordEl yep exactly, to both. Mostly swim as every connection between hooks you’re loosing leverage on the hook but it helps get a hook in the rear to covert more of the tbone shots and also changes the swim into more of that changer type swim vs drunk and disorderly swim
@@jackshirkflyfishing Thank you!
@@FringeLordElof course! How dense and large you make the brush head will really dictate how wide the S swim is if that makes sense. If you keep the brush head nice and dense but not super big you’ll get a nice quick swim and tighter wiggle and if you leave it bigger you’ll start to get more and more of that changer swim
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that is an Alex Laftkas fly brush head deceiver. Maybe it's parallel thinking, but he and Russ Maddin have been fishing that fly for decades.... You have added some fluff but the platform is the same.
@@jeffstutts4532 lm very familiar with Alex’s deceiver, I’ve fished it out of his boat with him, it’s a great fly, as is a standard deceiver without the brush head. The only commonality these two flies share is a brush head. So you could also say this its the same as a leggy boi changer or any other fly that has a brush head if your logic is correct.
The hook/shank layout is different, the support and veil material are different, mallard flank, flash over the top, rattle, marabou, brush head material, schlappen over the brush head. Overall the two flies couldn’t be more different and swim differ but if you consider any two brush head flies the same then yea. The profile of this fly in the water is dramatically better with a much different action as you can see in the video, it also takes 2x as long to tie.
Thats like calling a sex dungeon and a drunk and disorderly the same because they both run a deer hair head.
Appreciate the support and feedback tho Jeff
Sorry to troll, but it bugs me when guys pretend they invented a fly when they just slapped lipstick on a pig and call it their own. You have fished with Alex and should thus start by giving him credit. This is a mash up of Kelly’, Russ, and Alex’s ideas
Yes you threw in an extra shank, but that just increases fouling similar to a changer. Yes you added a rattle. But Alex has done the same. He probably told you about it. You ran with it… cool. But don’t pretend because you threw schlappen up front you’ve re invented the wheel. If anything this pattern is overdressed and would be a PIA to cast all day. I know I live in SW Montana and huck meat in the wind on big Rivers. I do like the grizzly on your Laftkas wiggle tail…. Nice job. PS taking 2x long to tie flies is not a plus?
You know? Because you “live in SW Montana and huck meat in the wind on big rivers?” Hahaha, you’re that guy 😂😂
Again, you forgot the support and hen, the mallard, the flash, the mallard again, the flash again, and the marabou in addition to the layout, the hooks, and the rattle. Again… the only commonalities of the two flies are a brush head and a reverse tie of bucktail.
You think a brush head on a fly was invented by Alex Lafkas? Same with a “wiggle tail” ie.. hackle tails on a shank? Yikes.
This fly has wayyyyy more tommy lynch, Blaine chocklett, and Mike Schultz ideas in it. & also, did I claim to invent any of these principles? No. News flash… nothing is new in tying bud. Everyone is just stringing together the same components in a different way to make a fly swim.
It sounds like you’re oversubscribed to your UA-cam idols my man. What you may not know is outside of SW Montana there may be different concepts and ways of doing things. You should try Colorado, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, a saltwater flat? Non jigged/dumbbell flies? Woah!
I suggest you go tie one and see how it casts and swims and then we can actually have a conversation based on experience. But again, I appreciate the comment.
@@jackshirkflyfishing You're hilarious. You're obviously young and cocky. I'm in my 50's and have fished the world. Literally. Its the dead of winter up here and I'm bored. So let's go. You want some simple advice to get beyond 122 subs, you legend, start by giving credit where credit is due. Also, Regarding your replies... We have a saying out here. You know how to tell someone is a guide.... Don't worry, just wait and they will tell you, AND try to sell you a fly. :). But yeah, It's a beautiful fly, good job kid. You'll understand my posts in about a decade, (when you're in rehab). It's where 80% of my guide friends ended up.
@@jeffstutts4532 ua-cam.com/video/i14hIIFxufE/v-deo.htmlsi=nb7DYQsNfuBZit_8. This is how an adult introduces a fly…. You’re welcome