Squirminator
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2014
- Detailed instructions for tying the Squirminator.
Hook: Orvis Tactical Barbless Jig Hook, size 12.
Head: Slotted tungsten bead, 1/8-inch, gold.
Tail: Light-Up Googly Worm tentacle.
Thread: 8/0 or 70 Denier, fluorescent orange.
Underbody: Antron dubbing, fluorescent orange.
Overbody: Egg yarn, yellow.
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Finally got around to tying a few of these and tried one out this morning on the South Platte River near Deckers, Colorado, which is know as a place where the trout like tiny (18-26) flies. About 10 minutes after getting my line wet I netted a 20" rainbow that attacked my Sq****! I caught about 5 other nice trout. On the way home I stopped at another parking area next to the river. The folks fishing there hadn't caught anything all morning. I gave them a Sq**** and they couldn't believe that I caught fish on THAT. Getting ready to tie up a bunch more. Thanks, Tim!
I have sent Tim several emails to this effect, but in the first 6 months of fishing this fly my 11-yr old caught: Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Spotted Bass, Crappie, Common Carp, Grass Carp, Channel Catfish and Buffalo Sucker. And that was just in freshwater. Awesome fly...keep it up!
Leaving the office momentarily for Toys R Us. I could care less what fly's attached to my tippet so long as the rod is throbbing. Great attractor pattern. Can't wait to tie some tonight. Thanks for the video, tightline!
Swats galore!! I tie this monstrosity using #6 heavy streamer hooks for the Potomac river. I've not fished with a "fly" that results in consistent hits from so many different species of fish. Finding the right "tail" material, length and color can be challenging, but that's part of the fun. Using a barbless hook increases the fun factor when smallmouths jump two feet, straight up and out, and spit the Squirminator right back at you. Awesome.
Like the fly, going to have to give it a shot for steelhead here on Lake Michigan streams !!! Thanks and great videos !!!!
It honestly reminds me of a trout magnet
Just want to comment, I really enjoy your channel. Your videos are so great in every way. I am an amatuer photographer and not only are you inspiring me to start tying again, but to do some video.
Great fly. Thanks for the video. I fished it from shore at a northern Utah lake in four color combos yesterday: yellow w/ orange, orange w/ chartreuse, pink w/ orange, and purple w/ black, and all worked equally well. Big fish love them. And, the Squirminator is much more durable than the Squirmy Worm. I caught over 20 on one before losing the tail. By way of comparison, the Squirminator fished as well as black, and olive balanced leeches and various colored weighted scuds. All were fished under an indicator.
Thanks for the update Easy, glad to hear the pattern is working for you. I recently tied up a bunch myself in sort of that original color anticipating some rain here in the East. Thankfully we finally got some. It's 'nator time!
From a fellow fly tyer on youtube. I just wanna say " Awesome"
If you tied this in reds or browns and split the rubber it could be a good crayfish imitation.
Thank You! Very durable pattern and one that can open the door to many variants .. For those replies below that cannot find these squirmy critters they are also called Novelty Caterpillar and are sold in most Dollar Tree store Toy Isles in Fluorescent Pink,Green,Yellow and Orange...The green is very close to Caddis Green and what I have tied a few in.
Well it looks like Toys R Us is also going to be on the list of where to go to tie stuff on a hook! That has to be the damest thing I have ever seen with regard to fly tying and fishing, but I will take that rainbow trout any day of the week so its off to the toy store for me!
George Semel well toys r us is gone now so amazon is what's on the list
Tim was so much snarkier back then and I must say I miss it
great commentary! "Like most cyborgs" that's funny stuff.
this looks like awesome hybrid between a squirmy wormy and a mop fly.
I think this pattern would be very effective on Great Lakes steel head, I cant wait to try. I would like to request that you use one of your sample insect videos and make a fly that matches the natural.
Oh hell yeah! I like it!
It's the mini-jig version for fly fishermen. Nice one!
Meh, purist is another word for grumpy old man. If you are someone who wants to catch fish, and this catches fish, why wouldn't you use it?
This is right up there with the little Umpqua "casting spoon" flies. When nothing else is working.. or you just don't want to fish size 24's.. Boom found the fish
Love it thanks :)
muy interesante estos videos de montaje me encanta verlos
Is this effective in other colors?
man, i gotta get on the water and order more supplies, and a new vise as the one i have from 1980 finally gave up the ghost after all these winters of tying flys
Nice fly
If I tie this, will I be cast into a fiery pit?
Chances are very good, yes.
Спасибо!!!
favorite color combo? Does it work in clear water also (many worm patterns are recommended for off color or rising water) THX!
nice, real nice
I have used this fly for mega bluegills on 7-10" ers.. also catfish will take them, as will bass, rainbows and yess the elusive carp!!
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I use orange . chatruse and green squirmies and astec to fill in behind bead and wormy
around here the trout haven't seen a dang thing like it so it will out do what most people use.
good video. rd eye made me laugh
Would I be able to tie this on a non-jig style hook? This seems like a good pattern but I find jig hooks and slotted beads to be more expensive. If I tied this on a size 12 dry fly or nymph hook would it still be as affective?
You have to be careful with the superglue. I've had past experiences where the glue ate away at the squirmy material... I guess it just depends on the specific material and glue.
I would love if you made more competitive videos....I don't live in an area where flyfishing is popular.....i never heard of a flyfishing competition in my area
Yep, I'd say this is about as far as I've ever seen anyone go to claim to be fly fishing. I'm not saying it is wrong just like the man said not what most fly fishers would consider a "fly". Actually the Squirminator fly is not very far removed from a very effective spinning lure called the "Trout Magnet". They both have a #12 up eye jig hook, they both have weighted heads, and they both sport a flexible rubber like appendage on the hook. The only significant difference is the Squirminator has a synthetic fiber collar which I think might be more to say it looks like a fly than to really add any fish catching attributes. Hey I fish dry flies 95% of the time but when I fish for steelhead I use pink San Juan worms with a egg tied into the middle of the hook shank. Fly fishing has surely changed a lot since I first picked up a fly rod in 1958.
+Matt Troutman Let me ask you Matt. Would simply removing the tail make it that much more a fly? Then, you are effectively left with a bead head glo-bug. What if rather than a rubber tail, you attached similar segment of fluorescent yellow marabou (roughly the same effect as the rubber tail, but more natural)? I don't have the answer as to where something stops being a fly and starts being a lure and to be honest, I don't think anybody really does.
tightlinevideo I hope you don't think I'm trying to pull a "holier than thou" dry fly elitist thing do you? Because I'm not suggesting that at all. Just bear with me about the evolution of "flies" since I started to fly fish back in the "olden days". BTW are you the "Tight Lines" fly shop in Parsippany, NJ? If so one of your customers is my very best friend. I can remember when I bought my first Hardy LRH back in 1965 it cost me $25 and the extra spool cost a whopping $7.00. I don't remember any synthetic materials on flies. Even the tinsel was metal. I think one of the first synthetics I bought was "Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly" dubbing. I still have most of the colors mainly because the stuff is junk. It is a bitch to apply to the thread and make a dubbing noodle. Back in the early 1980's is when the synthetics really started to come into the market place for fly tying. The first synthetic flies I was using were Glo-Bugs on the Salmon River in NYS. I even sheepishly admit to using Green Weenies for stocked trout in PA. However I would rather be found dead in my drift boat rather than have someone I know see Green Weenies in my fly box on the Delaware River. LOL. When I fish for steelhead I often don't make any pretense to even try to maintain any vestige of traditional fly fishing. I go totally over to the Dark Side with the infamous Trout Beads! So all I was doing was making a comment on how "flies" have evolved over the past five decades. I enjoyed the video and plain on tying the caddis larvae with the synthetic carpet tail.
+Matt Troutman No, I'm not associated with the fly shop in Parsippany but they are a very good one. I also didn't have you pegged as a dry fly elitist, although "95% of the time" does carry some weight. I am one of those guys that believes fly fishing needs to be pushed ahead not held back to an arbitrary date in time by a dictum that states "if the materials weren't used for tying flies at this time, they shall not be used henceforth!" (or words to that effect). Yes fly fishing has changed over time, even in the mere 35 years that I've been doing it, and I hope it continue to do so for many years to come. But Matt, Trout Beads? Really?
tightlinevideo"But Matt, Trout Beads? Really?" HaHa, yea I know it is really sick! We started using them on Erie about five years ago. It is amazing how effective they are. If there are fish in a run and a good fly fisher precedes me and fishes hard and catches two steelhead I can follow him and catch at least four more in no more time than he spent in the run. Besides even with an indicator I can get hung up and lose at least half a dozen flies a day, probably more. Beads cost about $.10 each and even though I tie all my own flies I hate spending my time to tie a nice nymph, or bugger, to lose it on the first cast. This year though I did start using flies again more often and especially an Emerald Shiner pattern I found on UA-cam. It is very effective and fish eat it dead drift or on a strip retrieve. Do you have a Facebook page? I'd like to show you some fish porn but don't want to post up my real last name on this format.
tightlinevideo Just like most everything we use, or see, today has changed dramatically over time (or never even existed thirty years ago) fly fishing is probably going to continue to evolve. Initially I use glass rods and then when I could afford them I bought, over time, about a dozen cane rods. But when graphite emerged on the scene I started to buy, and build, those rods and sold the glass and most of the cane rods. Part of me enjoys the period of my early fly fishing in Montana fishing Armstrong when it was free, and being on the Madison in June when there were less than a dozen guys on the river and stoneflies were emerging and 20 fish days were common and 30 fish days not unheard of - on dries. No chasing an indicator all frigging day. It's all good though, my fifty year old Hardy LRH, Princess, and Featherweights, as well as my Lamson Litespeeds and other modern disc drag reels. I think I'm lucky to have fished the Delaware back in the day when hardly anyone even new it was a trout fishery and those that did were not letting on to anyone about it. I'm retired and still fish it three days during the week so I still get to fish areas with few guys and I still love to fly fish.
You can use regular worm chenille and some u.v dubbing it seems just as effective
Sorry Kid but I can't agree with you on that one. Watch the motion of both the tail and the glow bug yarn in the underwater shots, chenille and dubbing really aren't movers (I think the motion of this pattern is what makes it so appealing). Also, you lose the egg effect of the bright orange dubbing beneath the light, translucent veil of glow bug yarn. Just my opinion of course.
Would mcflyfoam egg yarn work for this? I imagine It’s doable
if this was tied with pink squirmy what would a good body color be any info would be great Thanks Mark
Oregon Cheese Yarn!
Yes sir I was wondering what is the plastic material that you're using for the worm squirmy wormy and where do you get it at is it at a regular Fly Shop thank you for your response back
Did you watch the video? Tim discusses that it’s a toy section find at 1:48. I’ve found it under puffer worm just like he said. Try a dollar store or 5 Below toy section. Or Amazon.
Rather, googly worm. Also found under puffer worm.
While I'm sure they don't rank very high, what are the best dry flies to use in a one fly competition?
If I had to fish with a dry in a one-fly it would probably be a size 22 Parachute Adams. Even if a fish hasn't risen in an hour, it is hard for them to resist at least a look at a wee bitty Adams.
You can never go wrong with an Adams. I enjoyed this new pattern. Though a bit unorthodox it is very creative nonetheless.
This will catch a fish.
I have yet to find water that this fly doesn't work on and it blows my mind. I never start off with it, but if nothing else is working i'll turn to this fly and catch fish
this thing tied in a purple pattern would kill largemouth bass i bet ")
Yea cause chartreuse doesn't work on lmb🤦
@@FattyMateo Chartreuse is a killer color, especially here in the south, but purple works pretty good too.
Would you dead drift this fly? or
Swing it
+Matthew Bess I do both, but it seems to work a bit better dead drifted. Seems to get a lot of takes at the very end of the drift right when it begins to rise in the water column.
Any other favorite colors?
+Luke Alder This coloration really is my favorite. Would love to have some orange tails but have been unable to find them.
tightlinevideo I found some orange! I can send you some if you haven't found any yet.
Orange is easy to find on a,Aron but you have to get a plethora of colors with it
Use A Sharpie!
What was the red dot at the end
My guess is you haven't seen any of the Terminator movies.
How many fish can this "cyborg" last?not a hate comment just want to know
will carp take this fly
Tyin Flies 4 Life maybe
I did learn one thing though DO NOT use mcfly foam as a egg yarn sub for this fly it fails at this.
Yeah, McFly foam is cool stuff, but it does have some very different properties than standard glow bug or egg yarn. Whatever material you decide to put in the split thread needs to be very fine and you only want to use a small amount. Antron dubbing worked ok for me, but not as good as the yarn.
where can I buy these?
Scott Wood you cant unless you go to shannons in Califon New Jersey
I asked because at the state park I go to I hate when people come shoulder to shoulder with you not even casting just sitting there throwing a couple feet of fly line with a strike indicator and an egg and just they way you said wooly bugger I thought you were thinking like my thoughts on egg flys
Anything wrong with using a bugger?
+nathan m Nothing at all. They have probably caught more trout than any other single fly.
Im assuming I can't take this pattern to the country club, huh?
Not one off your best, but I like it all the same. Great videos.
How about some simple streamers thanks
Excellent fly tying session Tim. I really like this one. Thank you for another one dude.
BTW..... purists..... EVERY fly you tie is a fake offering! Get a life!
I cannot find these googly worms anywhere, No presence on the internet
Squirry Wormy material will work just fine and is in many ways a more versatile material. It is available through Spirit River and others.
i just looked online and found them everywhere.
A link would be appreciated. I can find the worms but not an outlet to purchase.
fufactory9 www.amazon.com/Imperial-Squiggly-Googly-Assorted-Colors/dp/B002Z408S8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8. They have them, but you cant choose the color.
There is no such thing as a purist. Tie the damn fly on and catch a lot of fish, just throw them back unharmed.
Joseph Armenti or cook dinner
I release trout with a 10 ounce ball peen hammer.
@@mikewest712 yeah, I always release keeper sized trout unharmed... straight into my cooler
I'll tie it....I have no shame or dignity when it come to catching some fish. So...when are you going to make a squirmy wormie vidio. After this vidio you might as well hit rock bottom. LOL
Despite some evidence to the contrary I do have some scruples when it comes to fly tying, few but some. Hence, no squirmy wormy anytime soon. But, me thinks a lot fly fishing folks out there would be shocked at just how many elite competitive anglers at the international level rely on SWs when the going gets tough. Just sayin.
tightlinevideo My only shock would be that it is used only when the going gets tough. LOL It's the first thing that gets tied on for me.
Now, as far as claming some kind of scruples against the SW. You just basically just tied a jig and pig (old school bass fishing) for trout using something that looks like it came from a novelty sex shop. LOL if there wa a line you crossed it...no you leaped over it...buck naked ....and drunk.
Not a fly, cool jig though. I'd be embarrassed to win a fly fishing competition on what is essentially a senko🤷♂️