The Early Nelson - Fly Tying Appalachian/Great Smoky Mountain Trout Patterns
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This pattern is thought to have been introduced to the Great Smoky Mountains by Cap Weise prior to WWII. Likely originating in England and named after the Admiral Lord Nelson, the pattern first came to the states via the Catskills region sometime in the 1840s.
Hook: #10-16 standard length dry
Thread: Black
Tail: Black bear or moose
Body: Peacock herl
Wings: Grizzly hackle tips
Hackle: Grizzly and brown dry fly
** Great Smoky Mountain Fly Tying Books used in this series **
Hatches and Fly Patterns of the Great Smoky Mountains, by Don Kirk, amzn.to/2HLZuVT
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Angler's Companion, by Ian Rutter, amzn.to/2HQwDQr
Southeastern Flies, by L.J. DeCuir, amzn.to/3l0McTG
Savage Flies is a project with the mission of encouraging and teaching fly tying to as many people as possible. The channel is named after one of my western Maryland homewaters, the Savage River. I've been uploading at least three new videos a week (usually Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday).
Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know in the comments if you have any tying tips you would like to share or if you have any patterns you would like to see tied here.
Thanks for all the comments today- I just got off the river so will respond when I get home.. FWIW, this pattern did okay for me today. 😁
Thank you for presenting the history and the tying presentations. I enjoy learning about Fly Tying and Fly Fishing. Have a great weekend. Lucky me I have all the materials to tie up this fly
You bet James! I love learning the history too and will certainly keep trying to share it when I can. 😁
Just ran across the Smokey Mountain series, super cool!! I’ll have to check out all of the videos!! This fly is awesome, I’ll try tying it!! Thanks Matt, I appreciate the way you’re able to give the history and detailed instructions on tying the fly!!
Well thank you James! I appreciate the kind words my friend. :-)
Great pattern matt, great technique. Love all the info you give on all the patterns. Can't wait for the next series
Oh yeah, the pheasant skin series is going to be fun. Probably mid November. 😁
Nice short little fly, reminds me of a mepps spinner fly.
Thanks Lee. Didn't Mepps make the Rooster Tail? I loved those as a kid in Georgia.
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This is going to help me out on the river
Thanks Matt
Great looking fly just about seen all your video have great day my friend
Thank you Wayne! I certainly appreciate you watching them all my friend. :-)
Have A Merry Christmas & A New Year
Nice cool looking tie matt.thanks for sharing
You bet Mike! Thanks!!
Nice fly, will be tying that one.
Awesome, thanks Jason!
Yes Sir that is a heavy hackled fly. But man it looks good. Very nice job. I’d like to have a fly tying police license. I’d be confiscating some of these incredible flies you tie 😉. Great video, thank you.
This one looks great
Thanks! It did okay for me yesterday but I'm going to need to try it out a few more times before I decide if it will be a staple in my fly boxes going forward. It might be. I'm going to have to practice it in a few more sizes and give it a few more trial runs. :-)
Cool little gnat like fly. 🙂
Yep, I caught two with it this afternoon. Not big fish, but at least I know it will fool some of them. 😁
Tied in 18&20, it would be a good midge to go with a Griffiths gnat
Good Morning Sir Matt, another great tying video. This fly is really cool. You use four materials from four different animals to help us catch an awesome fish mind blowing. Bear... really that's cool. I have a friend who works in the IT department with me he's going back home for a little bit on vacation and Promises to bring back different colors of horsehair I'm up for the experimenting. have you ever used horse hair for flies? I even have wild boar hair, I haven't tried it yet though looks kind of rough. Have a great day Sir Matt thanks again.
Edward, that's awesome! There is one GSM pattern I need horse hair for but I don't have any. Horse hair (and probably boar hair too) would make good durable shell backs on some Nymphs. Much stronger than turkey!
I have pony's I could get some hair from
That would be great! I'll email you about it later. 👍
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Matt,just a suggestion working with peacock.Leave a long tag and make a noodle with the herl,it really reinforces it.
Good call Mike. I have tried that but mine end up looking all matted. I'll just have to keep practicing!
@@SavageFlies the less times you intertwine the materials the better it will look.Only four or five twists keeps it from matting and still gives it the strength needed.
@@michaelmerlino6753 -Great tip! I just tied next Friday's fly and tried your method on it (a Gray Hackle Peacock wet fly). It turned out okay, but I probably made too many twists. Oh well... I'll keep practicing! Thanks again for the helpful tips. :-)
How was the durability with the hurl when you fished it? I was thinking twisting it with the thread or using a mono rib might make it more durable.
@@nealwallace6110 the one thing about hero is it’s age.I have very old hero that is so brittle it’s almost useless.Also if you use one of the new super threads it should hold up quite well.I would go with either a 30 or 50 darnier super thin and won’t mat the hero.
That is a cool looking fly Matt
Very interesting using bear for the tail, does it float good?
Thanks Dave, and it actually did float pretty well but the back end was definitely into the surface layer. It wasn't that easy to see in fast, choppy water like a wulff or parachute pattern would be.
Awesome looking fly, let us know how it fishes please
I used it yesterday on the Gunpowder. I did take two fish with it, but only got four all day so that's a pretty small sample size. But it did float well. The tail and body did get down into the surface film, and it wasn't a highly visible fly in any fast, riffled water, but it does look pretty good on top. I think it'll work well on medium-fast, semi-smooth water. Basically where you might use an Adams, but with that little extra tint of green/gold peacock. I'll definitely be tying a few more and keeping some in my box. :-)
My fly will be tied with a larger neck. I will call it the 1/2 Nelson. (A slight for the wrestler fly tyers.) 😁
Oh I remember the half Nelson. :-)
cool theres one black bear fly lol
Yep, and I think Stanley's Grizzly too!
@@SavageFlies cool right on
Hay Adam i was just researching this fly and I believe this called the eirly Nelson because of the fether is called the eirly patterson and is fact so I believe this is wy
Lol my bad Matt got ahead of my self there
The reference to the erly Nelson is due to the hackle that is called early Addams i did refer to it as the erly Paterson with i was wrong but the erly Addams is the style of fether i only made the connection while viewing one of Berry Ord Clark's videos where he explained the hackle so im almost positive thus is wy the erly Nelson was dubbed so
That's really interesting about the history of how it got the name. I've never heard of an early Adams but it certainly sounds plausible. Thanks for the info!
Has nothing to do with the Catskills. Cap developed this fly for Wilson Creek and is named after Dr. Fletcher Nelson President of Lees-McRaes College
Great note! I appreciate the insight. :-)
Are you tying on a Regal vise? Do you think you'll do a review?
It is, a Regal Revolution with stainless steel head. My next vise review is the Montana Mongoose in December. I may review the Regal, but I want to be able to give the vise away after reviewing it, and the Regal is a bit more than I can afford to give away right now. Maybe after I can get the channel monetized. 👍
Hey Matt I have tried to send a couple emails about a Smokies Fly book from Roger Lowe. Seeing if you are interested in a copy as a thank you for doing such a good job on the channel. Thanks. Gary
Thanks so much, but I've actually got three copies myself! I got two extra to donate when we finish the GSM series. 😁
Good news. I think it is out of print
I think you're right Gary. Someone told me Tuckaseegee Fly Shop had some so I bought three copies over the phone while I still could!