Ha! I've left some beauties in the trees of Maryland. One time I spent a half hour trying to get a Carrie Stevens type featherwing out of a tree (that probably took me 30 minutes to tie). Unsuccessful by the way. It may still be 30 feet up in that tree. :-)
Thanks again Matt. I have always wanted to tie with several chenilles but with no success. I finally got it and my father was so taken back with what I tied I gave him the fly. My father bought me a fly tying starter kit when I turned forty and I have never been the same. Dad loves it!! Keep safe, Jim.
Good morning Matt. ☕️time. Now that’s a fly with a different twist 😄…..couldn’t resist. The history behind the fly was interesting as I remember seeing those comics being in the newspaper so I’m thinking that’s maybe why the legs were black and white.
Good morning Matt. Thank you for sharing this old school fly. Like learning a new techniques. Will definitely be adding to the box. Have a great day my friend.
@@SavageFlies Matt, I have found so many variants of Wolley buggers for Pyramid. Plus some others from people who have fished the lake for decades. It might be fun to find out what flies people (viewers) use in there own back yard.
Cool looking fly, great story on the flies name, reminds me of a bleached out bumblebee (which would be a great name for a fly), another fun fishy pattern, thanks for the video Matt.
Oh, that sounds like a great one Lee! When you think about it, a lot of bumble bee bodies are yellow and black chenille, and they're barely dry flies at all. Most are those semi-floaters, slow sinkers. Kind of like a real bumble bee would do. Okay, I'm going to play around with this idea and try to tie a bee on a stubby wet fly hook. :-)
Hi Matt.Great lookin fly.The body is a woven technique,one of several.I know eight ways to weave bodies.I enjoyed the history on this one.Have a great afternoon.
Thank you Ken! I see a lot of woven bodied nymphs, but usually not anything as big as a streamer. There is a black and yellow woven stonefly nymph that looks really cool. I need to practice a few of those. :-)
It did me too! I haven't done a woven bodied nymph on the channel yet. I've only done a couple over the years that turned out half decent. Most were all crooked or lopsided. Maybe I should give it another go. :-)
Thanks Matt for another cool looking pattern. I never tried a body like this before and can't wait to give it a try. As always my friend, thank you for sharing
Very attractive fly! I've avoided offset hooks because I thought they might not swim correctly. Shows how little I know. Thanks for another great video.
Good morning Matt, another nice one. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been tying for almost a year now and I can’t say enough how beneficial your videos have been. Thank you.
Very cool looking fly. Pretty interesting history with it as well. I have no clue why this thought came to mind. But the black and white stripes, the music in this video and the orange tail made me think of a childhood memory. It reminded me of traveling through Georgia and seeing chain gangs working along the highway. But back to the fly. I will definitely be trying this one. Looks fun to tie. Great video Matt. Thank you Sir.
Great story Jeff! I grew up in Georgia in the 70s and 80s, but by then the prison gangs working along the roads were wearing orange suits. The black and white stripes remind me of the movie, "Oh brother, where art thou?" :-)
@@SavageFlies That movie is what it looked like in the 60’s. When we would be going to Florida on vacation. You knew you were getting closer when you seen those gangs working. Damn I’m getting old 😂.
Thanks Todd! I think red and white would be a cool looking body. Then it would be a barber pole looking thing. I'll bet in all of fly tying history, there has been a fly called a Barber Pole. I'm just guessing though...
OK, so now I'm feeling old. When I read the name of the fly I instantly thought of Dick Tracy & his interactions with that character, lol! Fun fly Matt, thanks for sharing. Just an FYI: an inexpensive mustache comb is great for fluffing out those wool yarn fibers. (Around a buck anywhere men's grooming sup-plies are sold.) Stay safe!
Great tip on the mustache comb Garrett! Now about feeling old, same here! I wasn't reading comics in the 30s-40s, but when I look back to the ones I read in the 70-80s, yeah I feel old now too.
Hey Matt, Nice fly that looks absolutely bullet proof. The body reminds me of a simplified polish weave that is used for nymph bodies. I think I might shorten the hook and tie some up for my panfish box. Also could be fun to tie up an articulated version. "Oh man, so much time and so little flies. Strike that. Reverse it."
You got that right Craig! I could see a body like this working for panfish. You could probably get a few of the color bands going as small as a 10-12 1x long. Especially if you used a chenille in small instead of medium.
Hello Matt, neat pattern. The name and history of this fly really cracks me up 😂. I remember Dick Tracy but not Gravel Gertie. Years ago I used that technique with the chenille on a bumblebee pattern. Quite the color combo this fly. BTW I received my order and thank you. The hat is really warm and it is snowing this morning so can put it to good use. Continued blessings my friend
Great to hear Mark; I appreciate the support! Now I've passed the 50-year-old mark but only vaguely remember Dick Tracy. Interesting that you mentioned using this technique for a bumble bee pattern. That's also on my to-do list. Probably late this spring for terrestrial season though. :-)
Okay. Time to call in the tying referee. Penalty for complicated body wrapping before the viewer had enough coffee to follow the play. Tyer assigned to tie three more. ;-) Thought I knew most Maine streamers but not this one. Kinda nifty technique which might be applicable for tying a golden stone nymph, maybe using gold & brown or black embroidery thread or rug yarn (thinner than knitting yarn).
Ha! After fumbling through this tie about midnight last night, I think I could use a few more practice ones. And I was just telling Ken in a comment below about a golden stone nymph I've seen with a woven body. I think it was yellow and black, but yellow and brown might be a more realistic color combination.
I enjoyed this fly. I'm going to have to give it a try just to learn the technique for the body. I have used the other method. When I use the other method it looks more like a candy cane. This is more like rings of color.
Same here Darrell! I saw a blog post on how to do this banded technique. Of course I've only done it twice now so I need to practice it a bit more, but I think it's going to be a cool technique to have in our skill set.
so that is the name of this fly!, i used and lost my last one this past summer,, they were tied in different colors they were tied on a size #8 shorter shank hook then the shank of hook you used
Gravel Gertie was BO Plenty's on again off again love interest in the 1940s Dick Tracy comics. (I have the entire book collection of the strip if you want to see them.) That was a great arc when she was in league with The Brow, who was a Nazi spy, in mid-1944. Haha.
Oh my gosh I'm going to have to look up some old Dick Tracy comics now. B.O. Plenty. I had no idea who this guy was... I just looked him up and yep, I saw several pictures of him last night when researching his girlfriend. :-) Now BO Plenty would be a good name for a streamer as well. We should probably come up with one to complement this Gertie. Okay, so the BO would have to be really scraggly (his beard) with maybe some yellow and blue (his shirt and vest.) Oh man, this could be fun. :-)
@@SavageFlies I recommend The Complete Dick Tracy set. Hard back. Start with the originals from 1932-33. Classic stuff. The artwork is amazing. They are good up through the late 1940s. They start getting weird in the 1950s and 60s.
@@RyanAshley419 I was just checking them out on Amazon! A bit pricey but there are some used copies to be had. I’m going to give it a try. It looks like there may be a dozen volumes just to get through the 40s. 😁
Nicely tied! Just like the one I have from Rangeley Maine in the 70s. Its in a frame with a dozen or so other streamers from tyers of that era. Actually, yours is neater. I have never tried tying one! Now I m going to do it. For our Maryland waters, I bet it would be a great Smallmouth fly on a #4 or 6, and possibly a good early-season trout fly on a #8 or 10? Thanks for a great video!
Looks like you've gotten several comments on hook styles, so here's mine! For a long time, my favorite hook for traditional-style streamers and bucktails has been the Mustad 3665A (6x, Limerick bend) or Mustad 9575 (6x, limerick bend, loop eye). However, these have recently been replaced by the Mustad Signature series' L87 (Limerick bend, 7x (still looks like a 6x to me)). In my opinion, FWIW, the L87 is one of the most graceful fly hooks made -
Thanks Pete! I appreciate you making me aware of it. Any other semi-forgotten streamers in that frame that might be fun to research and tie for the channel? And I was thinking the same thing you were here... this is a bass fly for Maryland. This might totally spook the little squirts I'm usually catching on the Gunpowder. :-)
Oh yes, those Mustad L87 (my packs have the 3665A after it) are super sharp looking hooks. That Limerick bend just screams classic. I only have them in #4 though which I though would be a bit big for this Gertie.
I don't think the fish have rulers so I don't think that the wide black band will matter, especially since this is really an attractor, unless they have some really strange things in the water in Maine. As for color I'm thinking that there is a lot you could do with the tail and the beard, red, yellow maybe even green and purple. Keep the good stuff coming.
Good Morning Sir Matt, already at work with a triple expresso watching this video 🙂and you just keep wowing me.... what a cool fly. a question about calf tail, I have a lot of white can I use a colored sharpie to color a klump to use ? (no pink) I still haven't put my order in yet for J Stockard
Hmmm... that's a good question Edward. I've colored bucktail with a black marker before and it came out okay but I've never tried calftail. It's worth a shot!
@@SavageFlies I'll try it and let you know how it goes. I have to ty up a dozen shrimp on 4/0 hooks for my Nephew who lives at Fort Comfort Texas on the Gulf.
Not sure how I feel about that offset hook. With as much as I stroke my material while tying I could only imagine how many times I'll poke myself...LOL BTW, Matt this is Alex from NY. I changed up my profile to the Boricua Angler & Chef and I had to update my pic to my first trout finally caught on New Years day...lol... Thanks for the video. Tight Lines my friend.
Hi Alex, congrats on the trout. Try Daiichi 2370, it's a 7X-Long, 3X-heavy wire, straight tapered loop eye streamer hook. Contact Anglers Sport Group, they're in Elba NY. Ask them if they still mail samples. Cheers from a fellow New Yorker.
Well thanks for letting me know Alex! After a day of not seeing cheflex on here I would be wondering what happened to you. :-) Speaking of poking your fingers on the hook point, man that's a hazard of what we do. I do it about three times a night! Usually it's just a quick "ouch." But the other day I almost needed a band aid!
That is a good looking hook Joe! I just searched and J. Stockard actually carries them too. Sizes 2-10. But not cheap! Seven bucks for a pack of 10? Trident also has them. Their description says "Noted author and fly tier, Dick Talleur, designed this hook for Daiichi as the quintessential streamer hook. Specifically designed for bead headed streamers, this hook sports a modified Limerick bend that is more rounded to accommodate beads. The 7X length, tapered loop eye, and 3X-heavy wire compliment the design making this a truly world class fly hook."
@@joeduca8582 thanks for the info. Will def check them out. Yeah catching that trout took me a year of frustrating days on the water learning my gear and getting skunked... Lol. But on new Year's day all the stars finally lined up... 🎣🎣🐟🐟😁😁
I'm sure we could come up with something but I'm not familiar with what you're talking about. If you've got a picture of what you mean, send me an email and I'll check it out. matt@savageflies.com
Great call Mark! I just searched his name, and his blog came up as one of the ones I saw last night when making this one. This was actually one of the sources where I learned how the fly got its name. :-)
I know Troy! Joe recommended the Daiichi 2370 for a good 7x hook but those things are pricey. About $7 for a pack of ten! I think we could tie this on a 3-4x long, we just might get one less band. :-)
GM MATT. Thanks for another Great Video . This Fly is to Pretty to end up in the trees where I fish 🤣🤣👍
Ha! I've left some beauties in the trees of Maryland. One time I spent a half hour trying to get a Carrie Stevens type featherwing out of a tree (that probably took me 30 minutes to tie). Unsuccessful by the way. It may still be 30 feet up in that tree. :-)
Thanks again Matt. I have always wanted to tie with several chenilles but with no success. I finally got it and my father was so taken back with what I tied I gave him the fly. My father bought me a fly tying starter kit when I turned forty and I have never been the same. Dad loves it!! Keep safe, Jim.
Good morning Matt. ☕️time. Now that’s a fly with a different twist 😄…..couldn’t resist. The history behind the fly was interesting as I remember seeing those comics being in the newspaper so I’m thinking that’s maybe why the legs were black and white.
Oh yeah! Good call John. If old Gravel Gertie was drawn today, maybe her stockings would be red and white. :-)
Good morning Matt. Thank you for sharing this old school fly. Like learning a new techniques. Will definitely be adding to the box. Have a great day my friend.
Thank you Karl! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Morning Matt. Like the fly. I have all the material. I will be tying this one for my Pyramid Lake day. Have a joyful day!
Outstanding Nich! You're going to have some full boxes for that trip. :-) But man, I'm jealous. That's looks like some great water!
@@SavageFlies Matt, I have found so many variants of Wolley buggers for Pyramid. Plus some others from people who have fished the lake for decades.
It might be fun to find out what flies people (viewers) use in there own back yard.
Cool looking fly, great story on the flies name, reminds me of a bleached out bumblebee (which would be a great name for a fly), another fun fishy pattern, thanks for the video Matt.
Oh, that sounds like a great one Lee! When you think about it, a lot of bumble bee bodies are yellow and black chenille, and they're barely dry flies at all. Most are those semi-floaters, slow sinkers. Kind of like a real bumble bee would do. Okay, I'm going to play around with this idea and try to tie a bee on a stubby wet fly hook. :-)
Neat tie Matt! And learned a new skill wrapping the chenille from you . Always learning 😃 thanks again for the video !!
Thank you Mike! I always appreciate the kind words my friend. :-)
Hi Matt.Great lookin fly.The body is a woven technique,one of several.I know eight ways to weave bodies.I enjoyed the history on this one.Have a great afternoon.
Thank you Ken! I see a lot of woven bodied nymphs, but usually not anything as big as a streamer. There is a black and yellow woven stonefly nymph that looks really cool. I need to practice a few of those. :-)
That technique reminds me of when I learned to weave bodies...your mind has to rewire neural pathways. 😎 Fun pattern. Thanks Matt.
It did me too! I haven't done a woven bodied nymph on the channel yet. I've only done a couple over the years that turned out half decent. Most were all crooked or lopsided. Maybe I should give it another go. :-)
To cool Matt! Enjoyed watching this tie, especially the part of tieing in the body, looks pretty good to me. Thanks for sharing. 😀👍👍
Thank you Jim! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Thanks Matt for another cool looking pattern. I never tried a body like this before and can't wait to give it a try. As always my friend, thank you for sharing
Thanks Layton! I always appreciate the note my friend. :-)
Very attractive fly! I've avoided offset hooks because I thought they might not swim correctly. Shows how little I know. Thanks for another great video.
Good morning Matt, another nice one. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been tying for almost a year now and I can’t say enough how beneficial your videos have been. Thank you.
Wow, thank you! Comments like these are so encouraging to get. It's what keeps me going sometimes. :-)
Vary nice looking fly thank you for your time sir
Thank you Charlie! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Awesome video. Thanks Matt.
Thank you Chad! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Gotta try this, been waiting for another streamer! Thank you once more!
Thank you Pierce! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
New one for me . Thanks Matt !!!!
Thank you! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Very cool looking fly. Pretty interesting history with it as well. I have no clue why this thought came to mind. But the black and white stripes, the music in this video and the orange tail made me think of a childhood memory. It reminded me of traveling through Georgia and seeing chain gangs working along the highway. But back to the fly. I will definitely be trying this one. Looks fun to tie. Great video Matt. Thank you Sir.
Great story Jeff! I grew up in Georgia in the 70s and 80s, but by then the prison gangs working along the roads were wearing orange suits. The black and white stripes remind me of the movie, "Oh brother, where art thou?" :-)
@@SavageFlies That movie is what it looked like in the 60’s. When we would be going to Florida on vacation. You knew you were getting closer when you seen those gangs working. Damn I’m getting old 😂.
Great story! 😆. This outta be a fun ty and a good fish able fly. Thx Matt!
Thank you Clyde! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Thanks Matt I enjoyed the history on this fly. Lots of times I wonder what the inspiration for the names of flies was.
I do too David! It's nice when we can find a tidbit of information on it. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Cool fly! Gonna have to try this one. Maybe mix up the colors. Thanks again Matt!
Thanks Todd! I think red and white would be a cool looking body. Then it would be a barber pole looking thing. I'll bet in all of fly tying history, there has been a fly called a Barber Pole. I'm just guessing though...
That's a cool pattern, thanks Matt
Thank you Rocky! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Nice looking fly Matt
Thank you Mark! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
OK, so now I'm feeling old. When I read the name of the fly I instantly thought of Dick Tracy & his interactions with that character, lol! Fun fly Matt, thanks for sharing. Just an FYI: an inexpensive mustache comb is great for fluffing out those wool yarn fibers. (Around a buck anywhere men's grooming sup-plies are sold.) Stay safe!
Great tip on the mustache comb Garrett! Now about feeling old, same here! I wasn't reading comics in the 30s-40s, but when I look back to the ones I read in the 70-80s, yeah I feel old now too.
all the flies going in your box must have a tool box full by now...lol.....thanks matt..see ya joe
Hey Matt, Nice fly that looks absolutely bullet proof. The body reminds me of a simplified polish weave that is used for nymph bodies. I think I might shorten the hook and tie some up for my panfish box. Also could be fun to tie up an articulated version. "Oh man, so much time and so little flies. Strike that. Reverse it."
You got that right Craig! I could see a body like this working for panfish. You could probably get a few of the color bands going as small as a 10-12 1x long. Especially if you used a chenille in small instead of medium.
Now that is a cool looking fly Matt
Looks a bit difficult but I have to try it out
Thanks for the video Matt
Go for it Dave! It's certainly a fun one to play around with. :-)
Good morning Matt, we have a similar fly here but not tied as a streamer, works great. Going to have to try this one out. Thanks for sharing.
So a fuzzy bodied, banded wet fly? That's got to be cool looking too! Thanks for the note Hardy. :-)
Hello Matt, neat pattern. The name and history of this fly really cracks me up 😂. I remember Dick Tracy but not Gravel Gertie. Years ago I used that technique with the chenille on a bumblebee pattern. Quite the color combo this fly. BTW I received my order and thank you. The hat is really warm and it is snowing this morning so can put it to good use. Continued blessings my friend
Great to hear Mark; I appreciate the support! Now I've passed the 50-year-old mark but only vaguely remember Dick Tracy. Interesting that you mentioned using this technique for a bumble bee pattern. That's also on my to-do list. Probably late this spring for terrestrial season though. :-)
Love your vids matt, so enthusiastic and a great presenter and the background music is decent. Keep it up 😉
Thanks Graham! I appreciate the note on the music. It's hard to find good royalty-free stuff to use on RUclips. :-)
This rear tied not longe ago at Rotary Fly Tying.
Looks like I'll need to do one
Thanks Matt!
I know! I saw that video after I tied this one. I wish I had watched it first as that guy did a nice job on the body!
Hey Matt☕️☕️
I don’t know if I have the motor skills for this one🤣 nice bug thanks👍
Ha! Surely if I can fumble my way through it you can too Jim. :-)
Okay. Time to call in the tying referee. Penalty for complicated body wrapping before the viewer had enough coffee to follow the play. Tyer assigned to tie three more.
;-)
Thought I knew most Maine streamers but not this one. Kinda nifty technique which might be applicable for tying a golden stone nymph, maybe using gold & brown or black embroidery thread or rug yarn (thinner than knitting yarn).
Ha! After fumbling through this tie about midnight last night, I think I could use a few more practice ones. And I was just telling Ken in a comment below about a golden stone nymph I've seen with a woven body. I think it was yellow and black, but yellow and brown might be a more realistic color combination.
So using that technique to wrap two colors of chenille, bit of a brain teaser but I'll try my best 👌 Thanx again for a great video Matt
It definitely was for me! But this was only the second one of this style I've ever tied. I'm sure after a few it would get easier. :-)
Nice pattern! Can’t wait to try one
Thank you John! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Very cool!
Wow nice I'm from Maine not far from Farmington, thanks Matt
Thanks Mark! And being from up there, I'm sure you don't pronounce Farmington quite like I did. :-)
I enjoyed this fly. I'm going to have to give it a try just to learn the technique for the body. I have used the other method. When I use the other method it looks more like a candy cane. This is more like rings of color.
Same here Darrell! I saw a blog post on how to do this banded technique. Of course I've only done it twice now so I need to practice it a bit more, but I think it's going to be a cool technique to have in our skill set.
so that is the name of this fly!, i used and lost my last one this past summer,, they were tied in different colors they were tied on a size #8 shorter shank hook then the shank of hook you used
That's cool to hear! Where did you happen to get them? I'd be curious to hear where something like this is currently being sold.:-)
Especially on larger flies that have an underbody try using dental floss. Corded up or flat and can be colored with markers.
I'll keep that in mind Robert; I've never tried tying anything with dental floss! Thanks for the note. :-)
Gravel Gertie was BO Plenty's on again off again love interest in the 1940s Dick Tracy comics. (I have the entire book collection of the strip if you want to see them.) That was a great arc when she was in league with The Brow, who was a Nazi spy, in mid-1944. Haha.
Oh my gosh I'm going to have to look up some old Dick Tracy comics now. B.O. Plenty. I had no idea who this guy was... I just looked him up and yep, I saw several pictures of him last night when researching his girlfriend. :-) Now BO Plenty would be a good name for a streamer as well. We should probably come up with one to complement this Gertie. Okay, so the BO would have to be really scraggly (his beard) with maybe some yellow and blue (his shirt and vest.) Oh man, this could be fun. :-)
@@SavageFlies I recommend The Complete Dick Tracy set. Hard back. Start with the originals from 1932-33. Classic stuff. The artwork is amazing. They are good up through the late 1940s. They start getting weird in the 1950s and 60s.
@@RyanAshley419 I was just checking them out on Amazon! A bit pricey but there are some used copies to be had. I’m going to give it a try. It looks like there may be a dozen volumes just to get through the 40s. 😁
@@SavageFlies I sent you an email you might appreciate about this.
Nicely tied! Just like the one I have from Rangeley Maine in the 70s. Its in a frame with a dozen or so other streamers from tyers of that era. Actually, yours is neater.
I have never tried tying one! Now I m going to do it. For our Maryland waters, I bet it would be a great Smallmouth fly on a #4 or 6, and possibly a good early-season trout fly on a #8 or 10?
Thanks for a great video!
Looks like you've gotten several comments on hook styles, so here's mine!
For a long time, my favorite hook for traditional-style streamers and bucktails has been the Mustad 3665A (6x, Limerick bend) or Mustad 9575 (6x, limerick bend, loop eye). However, these have recently been replaced by the Mustad Signature series' L87 (Limerick bend, 7x (still looks like a 6x to me)). In my opinion, FWIW, the L87 is one of the most graceful fly hooks made -
Thanks Pete! I appreciate you making me aware of it. Any other semi-forgotten streamers in that frame that might be fun to research and tie for the channel? And I was thinking the same thing you were here... this is a bass fly for Maryland. This might totally spook the little squirts I'm usually catching on the Gunpowder. :-)
Oh yes, those Mustad L87 (my packs have the 3665A after it) are super sharp looking hooks. That Limerick bend just screams classic. I only have them in #4 though which I though would be a bit big for this Gertie.
I don't think the fish have rulers so I don't think that the wide black band will matter, especially since this is really an attractor, unless they have some really strange things in the water in Maine. As for color I'm thinking that there is a lot you could do with the tail and the beard, red, yellow maybe even green and purple. Keep the good stuff coming.
Good Morning Sir Matt, already at work with a triple expresso watching this video 🙂and you just keep wowing me.... what a cool fly. a question about calf tail, I have a lot of white can I use a colored sharpie to color a klump to use ? (no pink) I still haven't put my order in yet for J Stockard
Hmmm... that's a good question Edward. I've colored bucktail with a black marker before and it came out okay but I've never tried calftail. It's worth a shot!
@@SavageFlies I'll try it and let you know how it goes. I have to ty up a dozen shrimp on 4/0 hooks for my Nephew who lives at Fort Comfort Texas on the Gulf.
Not sure how I feel about that offset hook. With as much as I stroke my material while tying I could only imagine how many times I'll poke myself...LOL BTW, Matt this is Alex from NY. I changed up my profile to the Boricua Angler & Chef and I had to update my pic to my first trout finally caught on New Years day...lol... Thanks for the video. Tight Lines my friend.
Hi Alex, congrats on the trout. Try Daiichi 2370, it's a 7X-Long, 3X-heavy wire, straight tapered loop eye streamer hook. Contact Anglers Sport Group, they're in Elba NY. Ask them if they still mail samples. Cheers from a fellow New Yorker.
Well thanks for letting me know Alex! After a day of not seeing cheflex on here I would be wondering what happened to you. :-) Speaking of poking your fingers on the hook point, man that's a hazard of what we do. I do it about three times a night! Usually it's just a quick "ouch." But the other day I almost needed a band aid!
That is a good looking hook Joe! I just searched and J. Stockard actually carries them too. Sizes 2-10. But not cheap! Seven bucks for a pack of 10? Trident also has them. Their description says "Noted author and fly tier, Dick Talleur, designed this hook for Daiichi as the quintessential streamer hook. Specifically designed for bead headed streamers, this hook sports a modified Limerick bend that is more rounded to accommodate beads. The 7X length, tapered loop eye, and 3X-heavy wire compliment the design making this a truly world class fly hook."
@@joeduca8582 thanks for the info. Will def check them out. Yeah catching that trout took me a year of frustrating days on the water learning my gear and getting skunked... Lol. But on new Year's day all the stars finally lined up... 🎣🎣🐟🐟😁😁
@@SavageFlies my point exactly on why I couldn't use an offset hook... Lol
Could you make a video of tiying some of the old Flys like marathon makes looks like deer hair or maybe calf tail and the bugs has got wings
I'm sure we could come up with something but I'm not familiar with what you're talking about. If you've got a picture of what you mean, send me an email and I'll check it out. matt@savageflies.com
Matt Mike Holt might have some info, he use to own Fly Fishing only in Fairfield Maine
Great call Mark! I just searched his name, and his blog came up as one of the ones I saw last night when making this one. This was actually one of the sources where I learned how the fly got its name. :-)
@@SavageFlies Mike knows me I use to buy fly fishing stuff from him Thanks Matt
Looks like fun! But now I gotta find a 7x long hook.. Where's my wallet?..
I know Troy! Joe recommended the Daiichi 2370 for a good 7x hook but those things are pricey. About $7 for a pack of ten! I think we could tie this on a 3-4x long, we just might get one less band. :-)
Mustad L-87
Thanks Matt! I got both #8 and #6 hooks ordered from J Stockard.
Thank you Joe! I'll keep my eye out at my local shop for those.
@@diecastrejuvenation7779 You're welcome ! 🩹watch those fingers ;o)