Morning Matt.Just got back from a week camping trip on the head waters of the Nataha river.Good lookin fly and great story.A tip on floss bodies.Tie the floss in frount of the hook go in frount of the thread,wind the floss back,the thread will stay in frount of the floss,get to the rear,go behind the thread,rap the floss forward, thread will be in frount of the floss,get to the tie off point,take two turns of thread around the hook,and tie off the floss.Great lookin bodies usesin this method.Have a great weekend. Ken
That would be a great summer steelhead fly. I’m going to remember that one for trout also. Well, I guess this is how our electronic world would be if we didn’t have a backspace button. They are the same fish. Yet so many times we view our flies as fish specific when it mostly is situation specific. Rambling now! Thank you for the pattern again. I like it. Have a great weekend!
I would never have thought I’d hear a story about a streamer associated with that particular barber! Thanks Matt for continuing to share interesting patterns and related stories! Keep them coming my friend.
Nicely done Matt. I first heard of the Sweeny Todd on Davie McPhail's channel. I didn't know Mcphail's tie was that much a variant of the original. I'd recommend you viewing it. Thanks for showing the original, that was great. Global FlyFisher has one tied by Eunan Hendron from his contribution to Streamers 365 # 97 2013. GFF took over that project from Darren MacEachern of Piscator Flies. If you can access Streamers 365 it's a streamer junkies gold mine. Eunan is an awesome tier, I met him through his blog on J.Stockard. Great guy, he recommended some books on salmon flies for me and some good sources for feathers. He may have a You Tube channel, but I'm not sure - long time ago. Awesome research and narration of that disturbing story. The barber I went to used a straight razor to shave and cut hair. He also singed hair with these flaming sticks. Very European, I never gave him any lip for fear of losing mine! 🤐👎 Thanks Matt, made my day 🤓👍
Great story presentation, your stories are becoming as interesting as your flies, nicely done. The streamer is simple, well tied, clean. Also nicely done, thanks Matt for all the work.
Well thank you Lee! That was one of my goals this year- to become a better story teller. And of course get better at editing. Which I've still got a ways to go there! But I appreciate the kind words. :-)
Good morning sir Matt. Love the story this morning. This is a cool streamer that I will be adding to my box. Thank you sharing this one. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
Nothing like a good story to go along with a very nice looking fly! As always, thanks for taking the time and effort to produce outstanding tying videos. Bravo Zulu
Beautiful fly and great story. Trout on my local waters seem to slam anything that has a little pink in it, so I’m definitely trying this one out. Thanks Matt.
The pink "hot spot" apparently has been around a lot longer than I'd thought. I think this streamer needs a new home...my fly box! Thanks for sharing, Matt.
I want to thank you Matt for another great video. The history on this one is a bit different. But somewhat believable. I’ve been butchered in a barbershop 💈 before. Luckily it was just my hair. Which led to my first ponytail back in the 70’s. This is a great looking fly. Appears to be an enjoyable one to tie. Thank you Sir.
Good morning Matt. ☕️ and fly tying, what a great way to start a weekend. So Sweeney Todd was a barber, always thought they were a British rock band. Maybe that’s where they got their name from as well. Enjoyed the last history and the cool looking streamer. I am going to tie a few of those I think they will work up here. Take care Matt. Enjoy your weekend.
Thanks John, and you too! I've never heard of the band but I'm sure you're right and they named themselves from this character. I just checked out their Wikipedia page and they are from BC, and apparently still active. I couldn't find any clips of their music though.
Huh huh. We have solid black squirrels here in Nebraska. They are the weirdest looking things. Took me a while to get used to that when I moved out here. Didn't have anything like that in Tennessee. 😆😆
I’d never seen them either until we went to Calgary, Alberta and I saw several there. They are much larger than the squirrels we had at home. Lots of fly tying material on one of those. 😁
Hey and good morning Matt☕️☕️ Now that is a cool history and a cool streamer! We are in NC. We got some snow last night and it’s 32°the kids are out on a little break so we have River all to ourselves 🤣🤣🤣 she is eight months now. It turn cold just before we got here and it seemed to turn everything off. Hope all is well and stay safe👍
Snow... and it's almost April. Mother nature just teased us with a couple nice weeks in March. It's supposed to get down in the 20s here tonight but it won't be long until spring is truly here. Now my Tenkara rod is supposed to be delivered today. I might have to go play around in the yard with it. :-)
@@SavageFlies Lol, let me know what you think. We were slaying them the other day with them on an ants! I am going to get one of those straw pointy hat’s when I use it🤣🤣🤣 No, but really it’s kind of fun something different. Just let me know what you think 👍
I have question, and I'm sure there are other new tyers out there that would like to know if when a recipe calls for, say a 4 strand floss. Does it make much of a difference to use Uni-floss or just regular black thread? Does the thread or yarn perform differently, other than maybe just the appearance to the tyer? Thank you Matt for all you do for us new tyers. Your style makes fly tying much more approachable than most of the other tying video presenters.
Diecast, I like your question. It's hard to have all the specific materials so understanding if a substitution affects the fly's performance or simply reflects a tyer's aesthetic is a very valuable insight.
That is a great question Troy. Some things it's just going to take some experience working with. Ie, some threads will look very similar to flosses, but some flosses are going to be a bit more translucent when they get wet. And the same thing with dubbings. A red wool dubbing will look completely different than a red synthetic dubbing when being fished. They may look very similar when tied, but not when wet. One rule of thumb I recall is that natural furs, like wool and rabbit will darken up a bit when wet, whereas a synthetic (like a nylon or Superfine) won't change as much. I'd give you a better answer if I had one, but I haven't gotten it all figured out either. :-)
Definitely seems like a fly that would work really well for steelhead if it was tied on a salmon hook. Probably a fly I would use on a cloudy day in Steelhead alley. My thought is to fish dark flies on dark days and bright flies on sunny days, but I have no evidence of this being true. But, this will definitely be a fly I will try next fall for steelhead. Love that pink dubbing on the fly. Might even try an orange dubbing to make an egg sucking leech variation. I love the story behind it too. Thanks Matt. 😊
Good Morning Sir Matt, a murderous fly, I Fish Stonewall Colorado Waters and black and red or black and pink are always my go-to. I will definitely have to use this fly up there the next time. I've never tried a streamer up there but I'm sure this will work. Simply Amazing, thank you you're Awesome Sir Matt.
Wow Edward, thanks for the great comment! I hope you're having a great weekend my friend. I'm about to head out to dinner with my girl. Nothing fancy, but we kind of like IHOP. :-)
@@SavageFlies I got this message late I'm happy you're going out to dinner and I do love IHOP also it's Sunday afternoon just got out of church and me and my better half went to Golden Corral, Steak & Ribs we're amazing then of course I had to have peach cobbler with ice cream, oh did I not mention I had a huge salad before all that LOL 😋😉🤣
Killed the client then made them into pies apparently...we have some good stories over here and that's all it is, I think it was inspired by a French baker in the 1500's but it spawned a great fly and that's all that matters to us fly tyers 😉 I still use it now and again when I go through an old fly phase. Look up the whisky fly Matt, a cracker of a fly that will float your boat, the ace of spades as well, two flies that are real classics and are still catching...for me anyway 😀
Graham- great comment! I just read your email too; thanks. I'm familiar with the Ace of Spades. That's in a few of my books from UK authors and it caught my eye as I always liked the Motorhead song. :-) As for the Whisky Fly, this is the first I've ever heard of that, but I love it! I'm going to definitely give it a try. Hopefully I'll be able to dig up a bit of history on it. Thanks for the note!
Great story about the possible origins of the fly. A pretty bold pattern. Have you fished it and..... did it entice a bite. As always, I enjoy the sessions.
Thanks Ed, and nope, I've never fished it. I think I've got over 300 ties on the channel now so a lot of the ones I'm tying I've never tied or fished before. I quickly ran through all the patterns I was familiar with and for the last several months have had to dig way back in the archives. But that's also been a lot of fun. :-)
Hello Matt! Crazy story, but a good one. Thanks for showing the floss by hand technique, the way you tied it on is how I figured you would do it. Is most of your ribbing done with tight wraps? Enjoyed the video, have a great weekend. 😀👍
Thanks Jim! And yes, I usually pull my ribbing pretty snug. You can't pull real tight with this oval tinsel as it's not the strongest material and if you tug too much it'll stretch itself. Thanks for the note and you have a great weekend too!
Despite the murderous name, that’s a good looking fly. Btw, did you hear about the tyer with a trap door next to his tying desk and a collection of giant fishhooks in his basement?
Haha! My wife would probably like to throw me through a trap door down here. Only problem is my tying room is in the basement. There's nothing under me down here. :-)
Morning Matt.Just got back from a week camping trip on the head waters of the Nataha river.Good lookin fly and great story.A tip on floss bodies.Tie the floss in frount of the hook go in frount of the thread,wind the floss back,the thread will stay in frount of the floss,get to the rear,go behind the thread,rap the floss forward, thread will be in frount of the floss,get to the tie off point,take two turns of thread around the hook,and tie off the floss.Great lookin bodies usesin this method.Have a great weekend. Ken
Vary nice fly looks good thanks for keeping the older flys alive and great back story
What a back story.😂 Colorful. Nice tie Matt. Keep doing what you do. Thanks sir.
Matt, great back story and a cool pattern. Love the back stories on the old patterns. It brings the fly to life. Have a great day!!
Thanks Steve! And I agree it does make a pretty standard fly a little more interesting. :-)
That would be a great summer steelhead fly. I’m going to remember that one for trout also. Well, I guess this is how our electronic world would be if we didn’t have a backspace button. They are the same fish. Yet so many times we view our flies as fish specific when it mostly is situation specific.
Rambling now!
Thank you for the pattern again. I like it. Have a great weekend!
I would never have thought I’d hear a story about a streamer associated with that particular barber! Thanks Matt for continuing to share interesting patterns and related stories! Keep them coming my friend.
Ha! Thanks Glen; I appreciate the comment. It does make it a little more fun if I can dig up some interesting history on a pattern. :-)
Awesome looking bug Matt! Your level of research and history of the fly is great as well.
Sweet pattern Matt. Def will add this one to my box. Hope you're well my friend! Happy Tying!
Doing great here Alex! About to head out to dinner with my best girl. :-)
Nicely done Matt. I first heard of the Sweeny Todd on Davie McPhail's channel. I didn't know Mcphail's tie was that much a variant of the original. I'd recommend you viewing it. Thanks for showing the original, that was great. Global FlyFisher has one tied by Eunan Hendron from his contribution to Streamers 365 # 97 2013. GFF took over that project from Darren MacEachern of Piscator Flies. If you can access Streamers 365 it's a streamer junkies gold mine. Eunan is an awesome tier, I met him through his blog on J.Stockard. Great guy, he recommended some books on salmon flies for me and some good sources for feathers. He may have a You Tube channel, but I'm not sure - long time ago. Awesome research and narration of that disturbing story. The barber I went to used a straight razor to shave and cut hair. He also singed hair with these flaming sticks. Very European, I never gave him any lip for fear of losing mine! 🤐👎 Thanks Matt, made my day 🤓👍
Cool pattern & great story! Great way to start the weekend, thanks Matt.
Great story presentation, your stories are becoming as interesting as your flies, nicely done. The streamer is simple, well tied, clean. Also nicely done, thanks Matt for all the work.
Well thank you Lee! That was one of my goals this year- to become a better story teller. And of course get better at editing. Which I've still got a ways to go there! But I appreciate the kind words. :-)
Good morning sir Matt. Love the story this morning. This is a cool streamer that I will be adding to my box. Thank you sharing this one. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
You bet Karl! I always appreciate it my friend. You have a great weekend my friend!
Matt, awesome back story as always, I always look forward to them and the fly that goes with it, and awesome job tying it.
That's a good-looking fly, I like that one a lot. I think Sweeney was a real person. Digging the jazz. 👍👍
Ha! Thanks Thomas. And PS, I just finished my review of the Nirvana. Hopefully I can get it edited and out in the morning. :-)
cool history lesson on the Sweeney Todd streamer and a cool looking fly
thanks for the video Matt
Love the story behind this fly. Thanks Matt!
Thank you Will! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)
Very cool fly Matt. Thx for a cool back story and great tie. 🙂
The taper looks good on this streamer and the pink wool dubbing and red hackle is the ultimate hot spot . Nice
Thanks Ralph! I appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Nice looking fly Matt. I think a good variation would be a tail, probably in red. Maybe call it the "Tailed Todd". Keep the good stuff coming.
Nice looking pattern . I will have to give it a try. Thanks for the video Matt.
Thank you Mike! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)
Nothing like a good story to go along with a very nice looking fly! As always, thanks for taking the time and effort to produce outstanding tying videos. Bravo Zulu
Thank you Dennis! I think it's always fun when I can dig up a bit of history to the flies we tie. :-)
Interesting contrasting color combination! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful fly and great story. Trout on my local waters seem to slam anything that has a little pink in it, so I’m definitely trying this one out. Thanks Matt.
Thanks Matt for another Great Video, both story & Fly 👍
Cool pattern Matt and a great story. I really like the pink hot spot. Thank Matt for sharing
You bet Layton! Have a great weekend my friend. :-)
great back story and back round music was fitting for this pattern...thanks matt. and as always i will be watching see ya joe.
Love the story behind this fly. Might work for rainbow run here. Thanks Matt!
Thanks Todd and I'd say it would too!
Love this pattern Matt. Will go in my box
Thank you William! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)
The pink "hot spot" apparently has been around a lot longer than I'd thought. I think this streamer needs a new home...my fly box! Thanks for sharing, Matt.
Ha! Thanks Jim. :-)
You hit this one out of the park! Thank you Matt! I love the story!
Thank you Barbara!
Amusing story and good-looking fly! Thanks for sharing!
Well thank you! It was a fun one to research. :-)
Cool pattern Matt enjoyed the story too! Thanks for the video
Love the tie and the jazz. Thanks Matt.
Thanks Warren! I try to mix up the music now and then. I couldn't quite figure out what might go with Victorian England though. :-)
@@SavageFlies it’s definitely not Victorian but def sweet tunes :-)
I want to thank you Matt for another great video. The history on this one is a bit different. But somewhat believable. I’ve been butchered in a barbershop 💈 before. Luckily it was just my hair. Which led to my first ponytail back in the 70’s. This is a great looking fly. Appears to be an enjoyable one to tie. Thank you Sir.
What terrific backstory! A fun tie, if only to tell the story!
Thanks Tom! It's always fun when I can dig up some interesting history. Sometimes it's hard to do though. :-)
Good morning Matt. ☕️ and fly tying, what a great way to start a weekend. So Sweeney Todd was a barber, always thought they were a British rock band. Maybe that’s where they got their name from as well. Enjoyed the last history and the cool looking streamer. I am going to tie a few of those I think they will work up here. Take care Matt. Enjoy your weekend.
Thanks John, and you too! I've never heard of the band but I'm sure you're right and they named themselves from this character. I just checked out their Wikipedia page and they are from BC, and apparently still active. I couldn't find any clips of their music though.
@@SavageFlies I thought they were British so that tells you how much of a fan I was. Lol
Very nice ty Matt , interesting history I've heard the story about the barber. Thanks Denny
Love the story behind it. And a clean looking fly.
Thank you Theodore! I appreciate the note my friend. :-)
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Huh huh. We have solid black squirrels here in Nebraska. They are the weirdest looking things. Took me a while to get used to that when I moved out here. Didn't have anything like that in Tennessee. 😆😆
I’d never seen them either until we went to Calgary, Alberta and I saw several there. They are much larger than the squirrels we had at home. Lots of fly tying material on one of those. 😁
I flyfish the N.C. mountains, up there is a population of white squirrels.
@@jimgollach6202 If they are white year round I would imagine they would have a difficult time hiding from predators.
@@Jd-yc3gw they are white year round, I've been told they are a very rare species only found in this neck of the woods. The western N.C. mountains.
We have black squirrels,red boomers,pure white ones,and a lot of grey ones here in western NC.
Hey and good morning Matt☕️☕️
Now that is a cool history and a cool streamer! We are in NC. We got some snow last night and it’s 32°the kids are out on a little break so we have River all to ourselves 🤣🤣🤣 she is eight months now. It turn cold just before we got here and it seemed to turn everything off. Hope all is well and stay safe👍
Snow... and it's almost April. Mother nature just teased us with a couple nice weeks in March. It's supposed to get down in the 20s here tonight but it won't be long until spring is truly here. Now my Tenkara rod is supposed to be delivered today. I might have to go play around in the yard with it. :-)
@@SavageFlies Lol, let me know what you think. We were slaying them the other day with them on an ants! I am going to get one of those straw pointy hat’s when I use it🤣🤣🤣
No, but really it’s kind of fun something different. Just let me know what you think 👍
Nice fly Matt! The cutthroat will bite that.
I have question, and I'm sure there are other new tyers out there that would like to know if when a recipe calls for, say a 4 strand floss. Does it make much of a difference to use Uni-floss or just regular black thread? Does the thread or yarn perform differently, other than maybe just the appearance to the tyer? Thank you Matt for all you do for us new tyers. Your style makes fly tying much more approachable than most of the other tying video presenters.
Diecast, I like your question. It's hard to have all the specific materials so understanding if a substitution affects the fly's performance or simply reflects a tyer's aesthetic is a very valuable insight.
That is a great question Troy. Some things it's just going to take some experience working with. Ie, some threads will look very similar to flosses, but some flosses are going to be a bit more translucent when they get wet. And the same thing with dubbings. A red wool dubbing will look completely different than a red synthetic dubbing when being fished. They may look very similar when tied, but not when wet. One rule of thumb I recall is that natural furs, like wool and rabbit will darken up a bit when wet, whereas a synthetic (like a nylon or Superfine) won't change as much. I'd give you a better answer if I had one, but I haven't gotten it all figured out either. :-)
Definitely seems like a fly that would work really well for steelhead if it was tied on a salmon hook. Probably a fly I would use on a cloudy day in Steelhead alley. My thought is to fish dark flies on dark days and bright flies on sunny days, but I have no evidence of this being true. But, this will definitely be a fly I will try next fall for steelhead. Love that pink dubbing on the fly. Might even try an orange dubbing to make an egg sucking leech variation. I love the story behind it too. Thanks Matt. 😊
Really like this fly
Good Morning Sir Matt, a murderous fly, I Fish Stonewall Colorado Waters and black and red or black and pink are always my go-to. I will definitely have to use this fly up there the next time. I've never tried a streamer up there but I'm sure this will work. Simply Amazing, thank you you're Awesome Sir Matt.
Wow Edward, thanks for the great comment! I hope you're having a great weekend my friend. I'm about to head out to dinner with my girl. Nothing fancy, but we kind of like IHOP. :-)
@@SavageFlies I got this message late I'm happy you're going out to dinner and I do love IHOP also it's Sunday afternoon just got out of church and me and my better half went to Golden Corral, Steak & Ribs we're amazing then of course I had to have peach cobbler with ice cream, oh did I not mention I had a huge salad before all that LOL 😋😉🤣
I'm going to have to tie a few of these just on the fact that Barber is my last name. Maybe I'll be able to have a killer of a day catching.
gotta try this in the stream near my home
Excellent! Good luck Sune!
Wild looking fly.
Thanks Hughie!
Killed the client then made them into pies apparently...we have some good stories over here and that's all it is, I think it was inspired by a French baker in the 1500's but it spawned a great fly and that's all that matters to us fly tyers 😉 I still use it now and again when I go through an old fly phase. Look up the whisky fly Matt, a cracker of a fly that will float your boat, the ace of spades as well, two flies that are real classics and are still catching...for me anyway 😀
Graham- great comment! I just read your email too; thanks. I'm familiar with the Ace of Spades. That's in a few of my books from UK authors and it caught my eye as I always liked the Motorhead song. :-) As for the Whisky Fly, this is the first I've ever heard of that, but I love it! I'm going to definitely give it a try. Hopefully I'll be able to dig up a bit of history on it. Thanks for the note!
@@SavageFlies Throw your head back and say it like Lemmy!!!👍
The red looks like it's the cut throat of one of his victims
I think so too Darrell! Thanks for watching my friend. :-)
Very cool I going to do one with a green body
Great story about the possible origins of the fly.
A pretty bold pattern. Have you fished it and..... did it entice a bite.
As always, I enjoy the sessions.
Thanks Ed, and nope, I've never fished it. I think I've got over 300 ties on the channel now so a lot of the ones I'm tying I've never tied or fished before. I quickly ran through all the patterns I was familiar with and for the last several months have had to dig way back in the archives. But that's also been a lot of fun. :-)
Tonight's looking fly that'll murder some trout
Ha! Nice one. Let's hope so. :-)
Goof looking streamer. Nice streamnlined. :-)
Hello Matt! Crazy story, but a good one. Thanks for showing the floss by hand technique, the way you tied it on is how I figured you would do it. Is most of your ribbing done with tight wraps? Enjoyed the video, have a great weekend. 😀👍
Thanks Jim! And yes, I usually pull my ribbing pretty snug. You can't pull real tight with this oval tinsel as it's not the strongest material and if you tug too much it'll stretch itself. Thanks for the note and you have a great weekend too!
Despite the murderous name, that’s a good looking fly. Btw, did you hear about the tyer with a trap door next to his tying desk and a collection of giant fishhooks in his basement?
Haha! My wife would probably like to throw me through a trap door down here. Only problem is my tying room is in the basement. There's nothing under me down here. :-)
Hmm. Stay safe & keep an eye on the ceiling if a family member opens a barbershop upstairs.
Great tying and good story! This fly is on my list to tie on my channel