Tying a Mickey Finn fly with Barry Ord Clarke
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Without a doubt one of the classic bucktails Mickey Finn fly, an easy pattern to tie, but its seldom that you see it tied well! Here's the full tutorial, how to tie the tinsel body, what bucktail to use and the correct way and proportions of mounting the wing. Visit my site thefeatherbend...
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Another great ty. Thank you! Tight lines🪰🐜🦗!!!!!!
Awesome! You are so meticulous! Thank you for sharing! That fly looks great! I would be afraid to damage! Thank you for sharing! As you said a nice simple streamer to do.
Thanks so much Marc. May I suggest: ruclips.net/video/mVLof0uXqyE/видео.html
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Thanks for taking your time to tie and explain all the tricks and steps in this fly pattern. At firts, when I tied my first Mickey Finn I found it very simple, then I realized that the bucktail fibers weren´t in the correct way... the fibers were spinned. Now, with the drop of head cement it doesn´t happen anymore.
Hi Martin, No problem good to know it helped.
Great beginners streamer especially in spring . Thanks for information on its name from the red and yellow to bad cocktail. A Mickey Finn I think kids today would call it a roofy 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Leonard, yes a great fly I have caught so many fish on the Mickey Finn over the years.
Or the Bill Cosby.
beautiful tie! one of my favorite patterns for my local creek- there's a hole in it where little smallmouth bass stack up in the summer (8 inches would be a big one) and i love this pattern because it's big and bulky enough for size 4 to convince an agressive take, but light and aerodynamic enough to fish for these small fish with my glass 2 weight. it's a lot of fun.
Thanks Skidin, yeah a great pattern! I use it for sea run browns.
You bring a very good point that I always wondered. I am new to fly fishing for bass, I only fished for trouts before. Is there such a thing as too small of a fly? I like to ty all my flies on size 14 or 16 and very seldom I go to less than size 12 and have a chuckle to ty flies in size 22. On the bright side I Don’t care much for larger fishes and enjoy the smaller ones full of life. As a bet with a good friend I caught minnows on a fly. The best compliment I ever got was from a dragonfly that tried to get away with one of my mosquito fly pattern.
Nice one Barry. Though a simple pattern there is scope for a mess. Your head cement idea and careful selection of the hair makes a nice neat fly. I once put bars on the wing of a commercially tied version of this fly using a black marker pen and the trout wouldn't leave it alone. Of course by Murphy's law it never worked again.
Thanks Bob. For me, that is a very big part of it, material selection and getting proportions right make everything fall into place for a good looking fly. Fish with it long enough Bob and it will work again...
Nice! 🤠
Thanks for the visit Robert.
Brilliant
Thanks J.
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Everyone says it’s an easy pattern to tie. I disagree. It is an easy pattern to tie, but not an easy pattern to tie well. Getting the tinsel flat and keeping the head small is a challenge. At least for me it is. The pre tinsel wraps keeping the thread flat and the wing instruction are appreciated.
Nice tie that is Barry. One I’ll attempt although I expect it’ll take me some goes to get even close! lol
Thanks for another good job dude.....
Cool
I was told to try these for salmon. Is it in your book? I'll find out. Going to the a few up.
Hi Randy, not a traditional salmon fly but they will catch just about anything that swims. The Mickey Finn is not in my most recent book but in one of my older ones. Well worth having in your box!
Superb 👍👍
Thanks Grazzz!
I'm rather new at tying, and my uncle asked that I tie a tandem mickey. Have you ever heard of them? Incidentally, very good videos.
Hi Jean-Bruno, thanks. Yes I know about tandem mickey's but I can't believe that anyone is still fishing with them!!!
It's when 2 flies are connected together with a short piece of monofilament.
The way he was explaining seemed to be with a longer wing, and a second hook in the back. Not an entirely different fly attached to the first. I'd imagine the concept would be similar though.
Could that be tied on a smaller hook with squirrel tail?
For sure Michael, but then it wouldn't be a Micky Finn!
Barry, that looked like proper tinsel not mylar. If it was, do you know a good source of proper tinsel. I am having a devil of a time finding some. I have very little left. All the best, Sean
Hi Sean, sorry I don't know, I just buy it every time I come across it at shows.
Barry what is that thread name that you are using. I did not quite catch that. Thanks!
Hi Nicole, It's called Dyneema, you can see my video here on how to use it. ruclips.net/video/FkO2Z4MwBAk/видео.html
Excellent ty Mr BOC but wrong on the Valentino script, he didn't die of a murderous waiter,he died from complications from gastric ulcers which led to pleurisy
Thanks, Thats interesting Stuart, this is my source from Joseph D Bates book.
I learned from Mr. Vanderhoff that this fly was one of a series of six small ducktails in various color combinations which were at one time put out by William Mills and Son. Then, the fly was know only as the Red and Yellow bucktail. I used the fly for a couple of year quite successfully."
In his travels, John Alden Knight had several occasions when this fly, now called the Assassin caught more fish than any others used. In the fall of 1937 Mr. Knight wrote a story for Hunting and Fishing, about the Mickey Finn, (now re-named from Assassin) and the producers, (The Weber Company) took for an ad in the same issue featuring the fly. John Alden Knight is also the person who developed the Solunar Tables in 1930.
According to Dick Surette's Trout and Salmon Fly Index, The Mickey Finn is "A very durable fly that will take trout, salmon, bass and just about anything that swims."
"The magazine appeared on the news stands when the Sportsmen's Show was on in New York. In the space of two days not a single copy of Hunting and Fishing Magazine could be found on the New York news stands. I suppose that the name and the flashy colors struck the public fancy. In any event the fly tiers at the show were busy for the entire week tying Mickey Finns. Each night bushel baskets of red and yellow bucktail clippings and silver tinsel were swept up by the cleaning crew at Grand Central Palace, and by Friday of that week not a single bit of red or yellow bucktail could be purchsed from any of the New York supply houses. It was estimated that between a quarter and a half million of these flies were dressed and distributed during the course of that show. How accurate that estimate is I have no way of knowing but I do know that almost everybody encounter in the aisles had a Mickey Finn stuck in his hatband . . .
Mr. Gregory Clark . . . adds this: "A day to two after I named the fly the Assassin I recollected a story that recently had been published in EsquireMagagine about how Rudolph Vanentino had been killed by Mickey Finns adminstered to him by the resentful waiters of New York and Hollywood and I rechristened the fly the Mickey Finn. All we did up here was to make it respectable and legitimate and to give the nameless waif an honest name."
@@Thefeatherbender Many thanks for that extremely detailed research and correction .
I had the pleasure a short time ago to briefly take a look at your new book that I had and had just arrived before I had to depart offshore and from the initial impression it looks amazing so very much looking forward to getting up to speed on that book when I return in Jan,also I ordered the Marc Petitjean CDC book as well but that had not arrived in time to view
No problem Stuart, always difficult with pattern history, the truth probably lies somewhere in-between... Have a great Christmas and new year!