when I shoot a grouse or bag a turkey I save the feathers and make natural colored buggers and soft hackle flies. grouse chickabou is super dank materiel. quail too. and turkey quills and feather hero are great dryfly and wetfly bodies also. nice vid McFly.
Thanks, and yeah use whatever feathers you got, good to do that. I got a Turkey for thanksgiving once when I lived next door to some hunting land. I kept all the feathers I could use and made a few flies with them, worked well. Wish I could go get some pheasant! Lol
I always enjoy your videos and have learned a great deal watching them. Am going to give the Risen hooks a try. Do you still have a discount code you’d be willing to share with me for my first order with them? Thanks so much.
I use black marabou and chenille and wrape with a chartreuse grizzly rooster hackle but i keep some of the fuzzy fibers on for the head of the fly. I use this for smallmouth and this works really well and makes them extra buggy… i havent had any issues w the flys falling apart….
I think I will upsize this a little using rust, tan, and shrimp colors for Redfish in the creeks. I like the way the soft hackle looks. Should do well for them.
I’m in NC and we have several creeks that feed into the rivers and sounds. Some are half a mile wide and narrow just big enough to get my bass boat in. There are always smaller resident reds and flounder around. In the late summer and fall the big bulls will move in to spawn and feed on shrimp. It’s not unusual to catch several over 20” in a day with some pushing over 36”.
@@McFlyAngler I am located outside of Raleigh but do most my saltwater fishing around Oriental, NC. It sits behind the outer banks so it stays salty. There are several videos on UA-cam about the area. You should check it out.
It explains all in the video. The benefits of either soft hackle or stiff hackles for buggers. Kinda the point of the whole video. Next week you can watch a stiff hackle version
@@McFlyAngler Still not understanding. You tie in a hen saddle hackle and then cut the video to a completely different hackle(maybe a hen or rooster cape hackle). Two completely different hackles on the same fly. Why change the hackle?
I added this info to the description section now so people can know about it. Thanks for letting me know. I make these videos and occasionally forget to mention things like this in the video or in the description section. Usually I try to include my mistakes so people can learn from them, but sometimes forget as well. Anyway thanks again for reminding me. Hope you enjoyed the video
Yes, I accidentally broke that feather while tying in. Instead of re-filming everything I grabbed another feather from the same saddle. No one is perfect, and I do break feathers or mess up tying flies occasionally.
Oh yeah man, wasn’t thinking you were complaining, just explaining. Yeah I grabbed a feather from further down so if I broke the tip off again I’d still have room to continue tying it. Lol
Very cool! Man i didn't realize just how easy some of these flies are to tie. Thanks for sharing bud
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when I shoot a grouse or bag a turkey I save the feathers and make natural colored buggers and soft hackle flies. grouse chickabou is super dank materiel. quail too. and turkey quills and feather hero are great dryfly and wetfly bodies also. nice vid McFly.
Thanks, and yeah use whatever feathers you got, good to do that. I got a Turkey for thanksgiving once when I lived next door to some hunting land. I kept all the feathers I could use and made a few flies with them, worked well. Wish I could go get some pheasant! Lol
Really great looking fly m8!!!
Definetly going to make some.
Thank you! Let me know how it works for you!
Hi! Thanks for the video. How can I make a flow box like that? Any video or tutorial? Thanks!
Oh I didn’t make mine. I bought it, it’s called the fly tester. They are pricy though.
I always enjoy your videos and have learned a great deal watching them. Am going to give the Risen hooks a try. Do you still have a discount code you’d be willing to share with me for my first order with them? Thanks so much.
Hey thanks! And yeah risen hooks are great for the money absolutely. Code is McFly. Just type it in at checkout. Enjoy
@@McFlyAngler thank you!
I use black marabou and chenille and wrape with a chartreuse grizzly rooster hackle but i keep some of the fuzzy fibers on for the head of the fly. I use this for smallmouth and this works really well and makes them extra buggy… i havent had any issues w the flys falling apart….
Awesome! Sounds like a nice pattern. Do you add wire? Or just wind tbe feather up from the base and tie off?
I think I will upsize this a little using rust, tan, and shrimp colors for Redfish in the creeks. I like the way the soft hackle looks. Should do well for them.
Cool, yeah man it should work for reds also. Reds in creeks though? You have small creeks with redfish in them where you live???
I’m in NC and we have several creeks that feed into the rivers and sounds. Some are half a mile wide and narrow just big enough to get my bass boat in. There are always smaller resident reds and flounder around. In the late summer and fall the big bulls will move in to spawn and feed on shrimp. It’s not unusual to catch several over 20” in a day with some pushing over 36”.
Oh sounds Cool, so it’s brackish water then?
@@McFlyAngler I am located outside of Raleigh but do most my saltwater fishing around Oriental, NC. It sits behind the outer banks so it stays salty. There are several videos on UA-cam about the area. You should check it out.
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Thanks
dry fly feathers in size 10 for micro buggers
Always a good combo there. I like smaller buggers as well.
@@McFlyAngler it's good for size 8 and 10
Why did you change hackles?
It explains all in the video. The benefits of either soft hackle or stiff hackles for buggers. Kinda the point of the whole video. Next week you can watch a stiff hackle version
@@McFlyAngler Still not understanding. You tie in a hen saddle hackle and then cut the video to a completely different hackle(maybe a hen or rooster cape hackle). Two completely different hackles on the same fly. Why change the hackle?
Oh yea ok that’s what you meant. I broke the feather while tying. Had to tie in another feather. I’m not perfect…. Lol.
That makes sense. I am also not perfect and have snapped my share of hackles. Thanks for the clarification. I enjoy your content. Best wishes.
I added this info to the description section now so people can know about it. Thanks for letting me know. I make these videos and occasionally forget to mention things like this in the video or in the description section. Usually I try to include my mistakes so people can learn from them, but sometimes forget as well. Anyway thanks again for reminding me. Hope you enjoyed the video
The hackle he picked out and tied in was not the same one he finished the fly with....
Yes, I accidentally broke that feather while tying in. Instead of re-filming everything I grabbed another feather from the same saddle. No one is perfect, and I do break feathers or mess up tying flies occasionally.
@@McFlyAngler Wasn't complaining or criticizing, just stating a fact, That first feather was soooo small and the second so different.
Oh yeah man, wasn’t thinking you were complaining, just explaining. Yeah I grabbed a feather from further down so if I broke the tip off again I’d still have room to continue tying it. Lol