Squirrel Hair Nymph - Fly Tying Appalachian/Great Smoky Mountain Trout Patterns
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2020
- An olive variant of Dave Whitlock's famous Red Fox Squirrel Hair Nymph that has been popular in the Great Smoky Mountains since its inception in the 1960s. This version substitutes the red fox squirrel for an olive gray squirrel dubbed body.
Hook: #10-18 2x long nymph
Thread: Black 8/0
Weight: 0.015 lead free
Tail: Fox squirrel tail
Rib: Oval gold tinsel (wire for smaller sizes)
Abdomen: Olive squirrel dubbing mix
Thorax: Squirrel dubbing
Hackle: Partridge, natural or brown
** 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. 
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Great looking fly Matt and big thanks for the dubbing tip
You got it Dave! Thanks again for watching.
I’m telling you Brother, these Smoky Mountain Series flies are flat out “Bad A$$”. What a great job of tying another impressive fly. Loving these videos. You’re killing it. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, skills and hard work. Great pattern.
Woo hoo!!!! Thank you so much this is amazing was watching while having breakfast with my wife. Sending my email to you now thanks again Jim Holland 👍
You got it Jim! Your email just came across. I'll get it out today. Thanks for supporting the channel my friend. Have a great weekend! Cheers. -Matt
Congrats Jim!
@@troutaddictnl7696 Hey Chris, I started tying during COVID and have really made a lot of ground. I have a nice place to my passion and my wife fishes with me wish I could show what I have been doing. The book is going to be amazing and a great asset. I started at the right time just a little late in life lol, the internet has been very helpful. Thanks for the congrats 👍
Hi from Rolla Missouri.🎣🤠. I found it helps to wax the thread a little bit before tying down the lead wire. It helps to hold the squirrel tail without twisting. Good luck and health always to you and your's Dave Hughes 🎣🤠
Good tip Dave; thank you!
Thanks Matt I enjoyed this one
Good Morning Sir Matt great video. I think it would be awesome you teaching us how you make your dubbing. I have experimented but wasn't happy with my results lol. Have a great weekend Sir. Congrats Jim Holland that's awesome you Won 😁. Happy Fishing and Tight Lines Sir Matt.
Thanks Edward! And will do. I'll start planning a video on my DIY dubbing here soon. Have a great weekend!
enjoyed this one as well.....thanks have a great day.
Thanks Harry! Appreciate you watching. :-)
Enjoyed this one!
Thanks Debora! As always, appreciate you watching. Have a great weekend!
Great advice on the dubbing and a nice natural tie. Will give it a go down-under NZ. Thanks.
Thanks! I'm sure you've got lots of exotic materials you could make dubbing from down under. :-) I do plan on making a DIY dubbing video here in the next few weeks. I just need to do some fur dying first. Cheers. -Matt
Keep up the great work!
Thanks George!
Just ordered some boxes for dubbing and some yarn. I like the Fly every time I do it my hair roles around the hook. Like everyone said a class on Bubbing would be nice. Wife has alot of different yarn. Thanks.
Keep it Tying.
Thanks Pablo! Will have a DIY dubbing video soon. And BTW, some materials are a lot harder to get to stay on the thread than others. Squirrel is a little harder than rabbit, and beaver or seal can be really tricky! What can help a lot is mixing in just a little bit of synthetic for some of the harder-to-dub furs.
This would be a great book to win. I have a friend going to Alaska this Summer and I usually tye the flies he takes with him. #OREGON
Another fly to try!!
Nice looking tie Matt! Great pattern.thanks for sharing
You got it Mike; thank you my friend!
me to im intereested in saving money lol thanks again Matt
You got it! I didn't mention it, but I have boxes like that squirrel one for raccoon, opossum and one for all synthetics. Probably enough dubbing to last the rest of my life. I'll do a video soon. :-)
I would like to see how you make this dubbing. Keep the Smoky Mountain patterns coming
You got it! Will work on a DIY dubbing video in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for watching!
I appreciate your channel. I would watc& the dubbing tutorial. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jack! I'm planning out the DIY dubbing video now. Might take a couple weeks so stay tuned. :-)
Oh wow. That’s cool how you can extend the materials by adding synthetics. (Dubbing)
Hahaha I love that you got Apmex ads that’s great!
Oh yeah, silver ads AND drone ads from watching Otto's too. 😁
Very cool. I’m also interested in knowing your dubbing making process. 😁
You got it Clyde- I'll start planning that video here shortly. Have a great weekend! :-)
Not sure if you did a video on DIY dubbing. Very interested. Thanks Matt.
Nice
Great pattern, would like to watch a tutorial on making the dubbing
You got it my friend! I'll move this video up a bit on my priority list. (BTW, I'm still excited about the pheasant skin series!)
@@SavageFlies I acquired some ringneck pheasant skins 4 years ago and I want to tie more flies with these gorgeous pheasant feathers. I have looked around but I don't see any Pheasant feather ties much.
@@SavageFlies Is it okay to post a link that can help fly tiers for materials. I found this company and they have some free shipping on lots of items. Please advise I don't want to post wrong. www.anglersall.com
@@SavageFlies you're gonna do a pheasant skit series!?!?!! I have long wanted someone to do a a series like that as I have two rooster skins and a hen. I've only found one other channel that made a few and I don't believe he is continuing to make videos on the topic. Unfortunately I missed your announcement on the new series
@@JamesMcCutcheon -You are correct! And they are beautiful birds and VERY useful to a tier. But guess what... I just bought five ringneck cock pheasant skins this week. I'm going to start a series of 12 flies that primarily use these feathers. I'm going to take volunteers of anyone who wants a skin, I'll send it to them, but they have to commit to inventing a fly that I can tie for the channel. It'll be a fun experiment. We might get some crazy looking flies, but that's one of the things that make fly tying so cool. Stay tuned for the series, probably starting right before Thanksgiving, and if you want to participate since you've already got some skins, that would be great! :-)
Great one!!! This one is on the more realistic ones! Matt, how many flies do you think you have tied?
Loved the ending with the silver stacking ad! Lol. Yeah, that has to be because of Sarge's videos!
Otto, thanks my friend! How many flies have I tied? That's a good question. I can tell you that this year, since starting this channel, it has been more than any other year before! Let me think about it... in a typical year, since about 2015, I would probably tie about 2-3 dozen of the six or so main patterns I fish with. That's really only about 200 flies a year. And not a whole lot of variety! But since starting this channel earlier this year, I've probably tied another 500 or so. That's probably 150 different patterns, 3-4 of each.
The problem is that I probably USE much less than 200 flies in a year. I would love to use more, but I only get to fish a couple of days a month. So I end up with a bunch of flies stockpiled that I just give away. Maybe I should give them away on the channel. That's a good idea. :-)
Thanks for watching. I hope you have a video for us tomorrow. I can't wait!!
A video making dubbing would be awesome
I did one not too long after this Ray. Check it out here when you've got about 20 minutes to spare. :-)
ruclips.net/video/U_vp9bO0sSg/видео.html
Matt, a video on how you make your custom dubbing blends would be awesome!
Consider it done! I've already started planning it out. I'll probably include raccoon, opossum and fox as well. Fun stuff!
@@SavageFlies that is going to be awesome. I have been working on blending my own as well
This is a great nymph, though I never have any squirrel tail hair so I tie the tail like I'm doing a hare's ear tail.
Eric- I think your way (using body hair for the tail) actually looks better. It is how Dave Whitlock ties his. And he's pretty emphatic about not using tail hair for the tail. It's just a little harder sometimes, and I'm not a purist so I'll use squirrel tail hair on lots of mine. BTW, you should try squirrel tail sometimes. It stacks well, and makes great hair wings for some streamers, and even a decent wing on some caddis patterns. If you don't have easy access to squirrel tails, I think I got a ziplock back of them one time off Ebay for pretty cheap. :-)
I bought a good pair of clippers and worked as gently as I could, but I just could not get the squirrel to stop wiggling and biting me while I shaved it. Any pointers? Thanks for the helpful videos.
Very nice nymph. I would like a video on creating dubbing. I have done dubbing a pinch or two at a time. I have not resorted to the coffee mill technique yet. I have hand stacked some deer tail colored hair by hand as well to sort by size for tying streamer patterns.
Thanks Lee. And will do. I didn't mention it, but I have boxes like that squirrel for raccoon, opossum, and an all-synthetic one too. JStockard actually sells the small 12-compartment dubbing boxes, like the ones you get when buying pre-mixed dubbing. Usually around $3, I bought a bunch once when the were on sale even cheaper.
www.jsflyfishing.com/hareline-12-compartment-drilled-dubbing-box
@@SavageFlies are you a hunter or do you have another source for your animal fur? Are there any animals you would avoid using in your mixes?
@@nlcirque -No animals I would really avoid, though some are harder to work with than others. Seal (or imitation seal) is a pain to work with. And rabbit and fox can be so similar as to be almost interchangeable. As for hunting, I haven't really hunted in decades. I do let folks hunt and trap on my farmland in exchange for some skins here and there. But honestly, I live in a rural area so a lot of my pelts are from roadkill (raccoons, opossum, fox, and squirrel if needed). I do have enough hunter friends who will give me enough bucktail every year to last a lifetime. :-)
Yes on the DIY dubbing video. Does it involving a coffee grinder?
Yep! You could do it without, maybe use some wire brushes, but the coffee grinder makes it fast and blends it really well.
I would like to see a video on how you make your own DIY dubbing
Hi Steven. It's a couple years old but the info is still the same. Here you go!
ruclips.net/video/U_vp9bO0sSg/видео.htmlsi=CoNi68Zgq1BBv-6v
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yes please i would love to see how u maje ur dubbing
Will do! Stay tuned, I should be able to make that one in the next week or two. :-)
Hey do I have to use the wire to wheight it or can i tie it without it
How about a silver fox nymph , may be interesting. Just a thought. Tight lines . Denny
I'm going to have to do that one Dennis. I've got to use that new tail for something! I'll play around with that Friday night for Saturday's video. If you see it, Saturday morning it worked. If you see something else, that means I failed. :-)
It's probably going to be a cool looking bug.
Would like to learn how u make your squirrel dubbing.
Ron
Thanks Ron; I'm planning the video now!
How long do you cut your yarn pieces to make your dubbing?
Rule of thumb- about a half inch.
@@SavageFlies do you leave your guard hair on rabbit and squirrel full length or do you cut it shorter? I’ve been just taking my clippers and cutting all off and mixing
Nice fly! Congratulations to Jim! I’m with everyone else, I’d love to see a video on how you make your own dubbing
You got it! Gonna be out of town for a bit so may be another week or two. 😁