Looks like another good fly Matt. Although my youngest grandson was sitting in my lap while I was watching you tie it. He wanted to know what you were doing and I told him you were showing how to tie a fly called Ke-He. He kept calling it the Te-He. It was fun trying to get him to say Ke-He. And for the record I never did get him to say Ke-He.
I’m sorry but I had to laugh at the microphone issue.😂 Thanks! My wife’s 11 year old niece is visiting with her family for a few days, and saw my tying station and became infatuated with the pretty feathers and hair laying around. I coached her through a woolly bugger and it lit the fire, and she was at the vice a couple of hours until bedtime last night, just tying freestyle flies. She just woke up and yes..she’s at the vice. She’s a natural and also loves to fish so this may last. 🙂. Going to show her this video and let her try it while I’m at work. Bet she gets it! Have a great one Matt. Thanks for all you do! 👍👍🎣
Oh my gosh Charlie, this is a great story! This is what it's all about! Let me know if she needs some stuff to get started. You know I've got all kinds of extra stuff laying around here (and a couple of unclaimed books from previous giveaways). I'll email you here in a minute...
I really like this fly. My family heritage is from the Isle of Skye in Scotland so this one must become staple in my box. Thank you Sir Matt. You’re the Best!
Sometimes I see a pattern and think there is no way I could figure out how to tie that. So glad you post your videos gives me confidence to try new (to me)patterns! Thanks Matt!
You bet Todd! Sometimes I'm just the opposite. I'll watch Barry Ord Clarke tie something and make it look so easy, I mistakenly think I can tie it and then bam, I make a mess of it. :-)
Great pattern. I saw this pattern in, and tied some from, Mike Dawes book "The Flytyer's Manual". I've used it with success on Elk Creek and Deer Creek in Maryland; close to where I used to live as well as the Gunpowder. Keep tying these classic patterns. They still work well on Maryland streams.
i think this background music is close to a favorite......good pick matt. your friend from KY, Luke and as always, thanks for keeping the art of fly dressing alive, entertaining and something to be proud to pass on to our next generation. I have two young nephews that are just starting to question/show intrest in the art. very excited for the three of us to start the journey together with your help. Dont forget dear friend, you have more influence than you may ever know. as promised, sometime soon ill email you the story of how things are, and came to pass......... Luke
Great comment Luke! I hope you can get them into the sport... that's what it's all about my friend. Getting the next generation to carry on our traditions. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Nice fly Sir. Looks pretty easy to tie. I think I would tie a few both ways, with and without weight. I have rivers and still water. Looks like another great one. Thanks for the video Matt. Greatly appreciated buddy. Have a great week.
Hi from Kansas City 🎣🤠 Dave Hughes I usually put a very small drop of super glue under the wire weight I save the tag end of my the thread to use as a binder for the peacock body. Seam's to make a fly last longer. Thanks for your time and knowledge good health for you and your's 🎣🤠 Dave Hughes
Appreciate it Hardy! I would have made it with a black but I didn't have any black rooster and it just wouldn't have looked right with hen. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Pheasant tips, my favorit tails,peacock body,and roadisland red hackle.I have tied this one but without the red tag tail.Think I will go with yellow instead of red.Great tie my friend.Have a great week.Cleaned up our bench yesterday looked like a bomb had hit it,but we are tiers. Great video Matt.Thums up on this one.
Ha! I hear you Ken. If I didn't have to clean up my bench every time I recorded something, mine would look like a disaster too. Thanks for watching. :-)
Nicely tied Matt, I tie these but without the golden pheasant, just the red tail. I also will use yellow and orange for the tail. All have caught many fish. Thanks for sharing
Love the tie Matt. You've heard me before, when peacock is involved, it is no doubt a fish catcher. Similar to my favorite fly the prince nymph. Would like to see you tie a prince someday soon. Thanks for sharing. 😀
Thanks Jim! I do tie a Prince, the plain standard one at the beginning of every year to fill my boxes. And I do have three Prince versions on the channel: a Crystal Prince, the EZY Prince and a Hot Wire Prince. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=savage+flies+prince+nymph
Sweet fly!! I really like the old patterns and appreciate you sharing the history behind them!! Thanks for another great video Matt!! Have a great day my friend and stay safe!!
Oh yeah Jim. I'd like to see how they actually fish these things on deep lakes. Are they in boats, fishing toward the shallows near the banks? I imagine so, but are they stripping them actively? And with a 2-3 fly rig? Maybe I need to go over there and see. :-)
Good morning Matt☕️☕️ Another ringer! Will be heading to NC to see the granddaughter, and family. And maybe get some fishing in! But There’s also a carp lake near their house I might have to give it a try. With all the rain North Carolina’s got the South Holston and the Wautaga may be blown out. I think we may try the Nolichickey in NC. Will see, hopefully will get some in at least it’s a plan👍
Oh man, carp on a fly rod could be a blast! Good luck and send me some pics if you get anything. I'm heading to the farm this weekend. My grass is probably thigh high but nothing my old John Deere can't handle. :-)
@@SavageFlies Got up this morning form a lot of rain. And more on the way it my put us off will have to see how the weather works for us. Enjoy bush hogging 👍
Oh man, you're making me jealous John! I'd love to make a fall trip down to eastern Tennessee or western North Carolina. You know I love the Great Smoky Mountains! Have fun and good luck my friend. :-)
Hi Matt, a great fly for wild brown trout on the lochs. I always add a fine gold wire rib because the peacock body wouldn't survive long at all. The ke-he black is also very good but I prefer using a zulu. Look up the wormfly which is like a double ke-he on a longshank hook, a very good pattern. You can also play with the tag colours and chartreuse is a very good replacement for the red, I prefer using glo-brite floss to wool nowadays, colours no4, no11 and no12. Scottish flies are just the best 😉😂😂
Ahhhh... the Zulu! Another one I see all the UK folks tying. I'm putting some black hackle on my shopping list so just maybe I'll try this again later. The wormfly sounds interesting but Google didn't show me anything but a San Juan Worm when I tried looking it up. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Yet another 3 Way Fly variation. And one or two of the old books I have the basic peacock and ginger hackle combination is considered a One Fly sort of item. That is to say, if you have no other flies - have that one. I’m thinking maybe a fluorescent color wall in the tail might be useful. Neat fly. David
Good morning Matt. Had a chuckle about the microphone issue, did you say oh my goodness? 😃. Enjoyed the video this morning. I can see I need to remember to bring my travelling kit so I can tie some flies like this one while we are out. Trying to figure out what to put in it has been a bit of a challenge. It was easy before I just put everything I had in but now I have more stuff so it’s either a bigger kit or some stuff stays behind. Lol. Take care Matt. Have a great week.
Oh yeah John! I can't remember if I said "oh my goodness" but I probably did. I'm sure I say that a lot. As for a travel kit... I have a Fishpond bag that will hold a ton of stuff if I want to take one along on a trip. But I also have an "emergency" kit with the bare minimums in a bag under the backseat of my truck. That's the "oh crap I just arrived at the river and I forgot my nymph box" kind of kit. Or maybe I'm killing it on ant patterns and my last one is in a tree. :-)
I don't know, I can see a (very) vague similarity to a bee in this one Matt. Perhaps the issue is that they were at the local pub when they designed it, huh? Great tie and as always adding the history makes the video even better! Have a great week. (Betcha you don't leave the mic unplugged again any time soon.)
I agree that the fly doesn't resemble any bee I've ever seen but I think it may be a very good imitation of that extremely rare Scottish Red Butt Bee. That said it's a nice simple fly that uses common materials, but in 1930 I'm pretty sure they used wool as I don't believe that synthetics had been invented yet. Keep the good stuff coming buddy.
Yep Dave, I think you're right about the wool. But oh man, the Red Butt Bee? You're making me laugh. And have given me a great idea for a new fly name. :-)
I'm almost a day late and a dollar short on this O.B.G. pattern ;o) Maybe Ke & He slapped a GP tippet on a Red Tag wet to make it look like a bee, sort of colorwise anyway. Some say those GP tippets resemble an ant with those bands of color that gives it the "mojo" that fish like. Peacock herl has lots of "mojo" on its own. I wonder if there's a dry version of the Ke-He like the Red Tag? Either way it's a fish catcher to last this long. Great video Matt, thanks!
Ha! Thanks Joe. I'm not worried that you're late watching... I'm about a day late in responding to any of these comments! I took the night off yesterday and watched some cheesy TV with the wife. But back at it tonight with a Thursday fly that I'll bet nobody has heard of. Kind of fun though. :-)
Awesome video as usual. Your timing for this video is a bit uncanny for me, since I just started reading The Flytyiers Manual a couple of hours ago. I purchased both it and The Flytyiers Companion by Mike Dawes (Spiral Edition) in today’s mail so I look forward to your book review video in the future. Mega Thx as always for your great selection of simple yet intriguing patterns to showcase for us newcomers to Fly Tying. However, I do need to actually start tying some of these flies instead of just watching your videos several times. I guess I’m just afraid I’ll tie the flies incorrectly or that they’ll look like garbage.
This is uncanny! You're going to love these books. I think there is some overlap and some of the same patterns are in both but they''re still solid. And my advice for you... get to tying! And don't worry one bit if your first flies are a big mess. Before I tied this Ke-He I spent two hours trying to learn the Teal Blue and Silver from this book and it was such a mess I couldn't even make a video out of it! Seriously, they were all ugly. (Hint: a teal wing is hard to make look good.) One other bit of advice- start with the easy patterns, and tie with a 70 denier thread. It's strong enough to not break much on you, but thin enough that you can get clean heads. If you get good with 70 denier, the other sizes will be a piece of cake. :-)
Mega Thx for the advice and encouragement. I know you’re right about just start tying. I won’t get any better if I keep putting off starting to learn from my mistakes. I’ll try to keep you abreast of my progress. Maybe I’ll tie a few & send to you for a critique
Thanks Thomas. I haven’t changed any settings in several videos. Have you noticed the same thing in any of the others? I just rewatched this one, and this mornings video, and a random one from last month and the exposure looked the same to me.
@@SavageFlies I've never seen any other of your videos, but it's quite obvious, that your exposure is off. Look at the top of yours hand and fingers, and on the jaws of the vice. They are totally white = blown out with no detail. You should try to stop down 1-2 stops.
@@thomas-schreiber Thanks Thomas. I’m afraid I’m still not seeing it. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I am a total novice here, but I’ve done 400+ videos for the channel and you’re the first one to have pointed this out. I’ll play around with the settings and see what I can do. Thanks again for the note.
@@SavageFlies OK. It's very obvious if you know something about photography and videography. Also. It's a good idea to light from the view of the camera, and not only from above as you are in your videos. I've done a few humble attempts, and you can see them here: ruclips.net/channel/UC4FWhIkVF2X7ZDW-obg6P3Avideos (If the link is being removed, search for "The Friday Fly" under channels). My setup is so simple and cheap, but the looks are quite good, if I might say so myself.
Looks like another good fly Matt. Although my youngest grandson was sitting in my lap while I was watching you tie it. He wanted to know what you were doing and I told him you were showing how to tie a fly called Ke-He. He kept calling it the Te-He. It was fun trying to get him to say Ke-He. And for the record I never did get him to say Ke-He.
Oh my, that's a great story! The visual is making me smile. Thanks for the laugh my friend. :-)
Good morning Matt. Nice looking old school pattern. Will tye a few for the box. Thanks for sharing this one. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
Thanks Karl! I do appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
I’m sorry but I had to laugh at the microphone issue.😂 Thanks! My wife’s 11 year old niece is visiting with her family for a few days, and saw my tying station and became infatuated with the pretty feathers and hair laying around. I coached her through a woolly bugger and it lit the fire, and she was at the vice a couple of hours until bedtime last night, just tying freestyle flies. She just woke up and yes..she’s at the vice. She’s a natural and also loves to fish so this may last. 🙂. Going to show her this video and let her try it while I’m at work. Bet she gets it! Have a great one Matt. Thanks for all you do! 👍👍🎣
Oh my gosh Charlie, this is a great story! This is what it's all about! Let me know if she needs some stuff to get started. You know I've got all kinds of extra stuff laying around here (and a couple of unclaimed books from previous giveaways). I'll email you here in a minute...
The background music adds to the coolness of this fly. Slainte!
Thanks Deake! I purposely searched RUclips for some Scottish tunes. :-)
When I first started tying flies as a kid I loved adding golden pheasant for tails or even wings. Now I know I wasn’t crazy. Thanks Matt.
Oh we're all probably crazy James. :-)
I really like this fly. My family heritage is from the Isle of Skye in Scotland so this one must become staple in my box. Thank you Sir Matt. You’re the Best!
Love these old fly patterns. Always cool to tie a fly that maybe my grandfather would have tied. Thanks for another interesting fly Matt!
I know Troy, I think the same thing! And I appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Good morning my friend thanks for another great one
Appreciate it Marty! Thanks for watching my friend. :-)
Sometimes I see a pattern and think there is no way I could figure out how to tie that. So glad you post your videos gives me confidence to try new (to me)patterns! Thanks Matt!
You bet Todd! Sometimes I'm just the opposite. I'll watch Barry Ord Clarke tie something and make it look so easy, I mistakenly think I can tie it and then bam, I make a mess of it. :-)
Scottish bees must be different. 😉 I always enjoy the back story on the flies you tie. This looks like a native brookie catcher for sure.
The colors of this fly definitely look like it would be successful. Definitely easy to tie, too. Another nice pattern, thank you!
Another nice fly Matt as always I enjoy watching your videos!!!
Great pattern. I saw this pattern in, and tied some from, Mike Dawes book "The Flytyer's Manual".
I've used it with success on Elk Creek and Deer Creek in Maryland; close to where I used to live as well as the Gunpowder.
Keep tying these classic patterns. They still work well on Maryland streams.
Thanks Ed! I've never fished Elk Creek or Deer Creek. I'll have to look them up!
That is a very cool fly, I think I will tie some maybe a little smaller for brook trout
Thanks John! I do appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Matt, nicely tied!!! Adding this to my must tye list. Just my niche. I love tying these old patterns. Have a great day and tight lines.
Thanks Steve! I do appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Thanks Matt for another neat fly, thanks for the video.
Cool fly Matt, always enjoy the back story!
Love it. My kinda fly. Great history, thanks Matt!
There are the remains of one of these in my fathers flybox . Never knew what it was until I saw your nice tutorial . Thanks .
Very cool note Joel. Thanks for stopping by my friend!
Very cool looking old school pattern
Great job Matt
Definitely going to try this one out
Thanks for the video
Great looking fly looks similar to a Royal Wulff or Royal Coachman. I like tying with peacock herl and you make it look so simple Matt!😊
Thanks Mitch! I appreciate the kind words my friend. :-)
Another one for the to-do list. Well done.
i think this background music is close to a favorite......good pick matt. your friend from KY, Luke and as always, thanks for keeping the art of fly dressing alive, entertaining and something to be proud to pass on to our next generation. I have two young nephews that are just starting to question/show intrest in the art. very excited for the three of us to start the journey together with your help. Dont forget dear friend, you have more influence than you may ever know. as promised, sometime soon ill email you the story of how things are, and came to pass......... Luke
Great comment Luke! I hope you can get them into the sport... that's what it's all about my friend. Getting the next generation to carry on our traditions. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Nice fly Matt. Always like it when u already have the materials.
Oh yeah, same here! It's frustrating when I see one I really want to tie and I'm missing a major component.
Nice pattern Matt. I really enjoy your historical/fly origin discussions.
I appreciate it John! Thanks for watching my friend. :-)
Great fly to fill a box with Matt. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Michael! I do appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Nice job Matt👍 good looking fly!
Nice fly Sir. Looks pretty easy to tie. I think I would tie a few both ways, with and without weight. I have rivers and still water. Looks like another great one. Thanks for the video Matt. Greatly appreciated buddy. Have a great week.
You got it Jeff! Hope you're having a great week my friend. :-)
Hi from Kansas City 🎣🤠 Dave Hughes
I usually put a very small drop of super glue under the wire weight I save the tag end of my the thread to use as a binder for the peacock body. Seam's to make a fly last longer. Thanks for your time and knowledge good health for you and your's 🎣🤠 Dave Hughes
Great tip Dave! I do that sometimes, but sometimes I forget (or just get too lazy). :-)
I've had a lot of luck with this pattern over the years but tie it with a black hackle. Thanks for sharing Matt,.
Appreciate it Hardy! I would have made it with a black but I didn't have any black rooster and it just wouldn't have looked right with hen. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Another nice one Matt, thanks for sharing. Be blessed my friend
You bet! I appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Very cool Fly Matt! Love the old patterns!!
Me too Barbara! Thanks for watching. :-)
Interesting tie for sure ! Thanks for sharing
Nice looking fly. Thanks for posting.
You bet Nina! I appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Pheasant tips, my favorit tails,peacock body,and roadisland red hackle.I have tied this one but without the red tag tail.Think I will go with yellow instead of red.Great tie my friend.Have a great week.Cleaned up our bench yesterday looked like a bomb had hit it,but we are tiers. Great video Matt.Thums up on this one.
Ha! I hear you Ken. If I didn't have to clean up my bench every time I recorded something, mine would look like a disaster too. Thanks for watching. :-)
Cool looking fly I’m sure it would produce some good fish. I will give it a try for sur. Thank you Matt.
Nicely tied Matt, I tie these but without the golden pheasant, just the red tail. I also will use yellow and orange for the tail. All have caught many fish. Thanks for sharing
You bet Layton! And yep, without the GP tail, it's like a standard gray hackle peacock. Another great one!
Love the pattern and the music.
Thanks Jim! I appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Love the tie Matt. You've heard me before, when peacock is involved, it is no doubt a fish catcher. Similar to my favorite fly the prince nymph. Would like to see you tie a prince someday soon. Thanks for sharing. 😀
Thanks Jim! I do tie a Prince, the plain standard one at the beginning of every year to fill my boxes. And I do have three Prince versions on the channel: a Crystal Prince, the EZY Prince and a Hot Wire Prince. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=savage+flies+prince+nymph
Sweet fly!! I really like the old patterns and appreciate you sharing the history behind them!! Thanks for another great video Matt!! Have a great day my friend and stay safe!!
You too James! Thanks for watching. :-)
I think we could use a lot of those Scottish Loch fly patterns successfully. That one is certainly a quick tie.
Oh yeah Jim. I'd like to see how they actually fish these things on deep lakes. Are they in boats, fishing toward the shallows near the banks? I imagine so, but are they stripping them actively? And with a 2-3 fly rig? Maybe I need to go over there and see. :-)
Nice pattern..been working so much haven't had time to do any tying so keep them coming.
I know how that goes Josh! Sometimes real life gets in the way of our goofing off at the bench. :-)
Beautiful fly, thank you sharing!!!
I appreciate the note Brian! Thanks for watching. :-)
Good morning Matt☕️☕️
Another ringer! Will be heading to NC to see the granddaughter, and family. And maybe get some fishing in! But There’s also a carp lake near their house I might have to give it a try. With all the rain North Carolina’s got the South Holston and the Wautaga may be blown out. I think we may try the Nolichickey in NC. Will see, hopefully will get some in at least it’s a plan👍
Oh man, carp on a fly rod could be a blast! Good luck and send me some pics if you get anything. I'm heading to the farm this weekend. My grass is probably thigh high but nothing my old John Deere can't handle. :-)
@@SavageFlies Got up this morning form a lot of rain. And more on the way it my put us off will have to see how the weather works for us. Enjoy bush hogging 👍
Nice looking fly. I would love to see you tie a Tom Thumb. Thanks Matt.
Thanks Chad! I'll put the Tom Thumb on my to-do list. I did tie the similar Cooper Bug a year or so ago. ruclips.net/video/SYWSHOCaPJE/видео.html
Yup ….can’t wait to try it!!
Great video keeps it up
Nice fly. I've tied some up and will be using a Sharpe's of Aberdeen reel on my NC Trip this week. Hoping the trout take to this Scottish combination.
Oh man, you're making me jealous John! I'd love to make a fall trip down to eastern Tennessee or western North Carolina. You know I love the Great Smoky Mountains! Have fun and good luck my friend. :-)
Hi Matt, a great fly for wild brown trout on the lochs. I always add a fine gold wire rib because the peacock body wouldn't survive long at all. The ke-he black is also very good but I prefer using a zulu. Look up the wormfly which is like a double ke-he on a longshank hook, a very good pattern. You can also play with the tag colours and chartreuse is a very good replacement for the red, I prefer using glo-brite floss to wool nowadays, colours no4, no11 and no12. Scottish flies are just the best 😉😂😂
Ahhhh... the Zulu! Another one I see all the UK folks tying. I'm putting some black hackle on my shopping list so just maybe I'll try this again later. The wormfly sounds interesting but Google didn't show me anything but a San Juan Worm when I tried looking it up. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
@@SavageFlies I've emailed you a pic of the wormfly 😉
Yet another 3 Way Fly variation.
And one or two of the old books I have the basic peacock and ginger hackle combination is considered a One Fly sort of item. That is to say, if you have no other flies - have that one.
I’m thinking maybe a fluorescent color wall in the tail might be useful.
Neat fly.
David
Thanks David! I did see a couple with a fluorescent green tag that looked pretty cool too.
Good morning Matt. Had a chuckle about the microphone issue, did you say oh my goodness? 😃. Enjoyed the video this morning. I can see I need to remember to bring my travelling kit so I can tie some flies like this one while we are out. Trying to figure out what to put in it has been a bit of a challenge. It was easy before I just put everything I had in but now I have more stuff so it’s either a bigger kit or some stuff stays behind. Lol. Take care Matt. Have a great week.
Oh yeah John! I can't remember if I said "oh my goodness" but I probably did. I'm sure I say that a lot. As for a travel kit... I have a Fishpond bag that will hold a ton of stuff if I want to take one along on a trip. But I also have an "emergency" kit with the bare minimums in a bag under the backseat of my truck. That's the "oh crap I just arrived at the river and I forgot my nymph box" kind of kit. Or maybe I'm killing it on ant patterns and my last one is in a tree. :-)
@@SavageFlies I have a Fishpond bag as well and it used to hold all my stuff but now for some reason it won’t.
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I don't know, I can see a (very) vague similarity to a bee in this one Matt. Perhaps the issue is that they were at the local pub when they designed it, huh? Great tie and as always adding the history makes the video even better! Have a great week. (Betcha you don't leave the mic unplugged again any time soon.)
Hahaha! They should have called it the Drunken Bee. :-)
thanks matt see ya joe
I agree that the fly doesn't resemble any bee I've ever seen but I think it may be a very good imitation of that extremely rare Scottish Red Butt Bee. That said it's a nice simple fly that uses common materials, but in 1930 I'm pretty sure they used wool as I don't believe that synthetics had been invented yet. Keep the good stuff coming buddy.
Yep Dave, I think you're right about the wool. But oh man, the Red Butt Bee? You're making me laugh. And have given me a great idea for a new fly name. :-)
I'm almost a day late and a dollar short on this O.B.G. pattern ;o) Maybe Ke & He slapped a GP tippet on a Red Tag wet to make it look like a bee, sort of colorwise anyway. Some say those GP tippets resemble an ant with those bands of color that gives it the "mojo" that fish like. Peacock herl has lots of "mojo" on its own. I wonder if there's a dry version of the Ke-He like the Red Tag? Either way it's a fish catcher to last this long. Great video Matt, thanks!
Ha! Thanks Joe. I'm not worried that you're late watching... I'm about a day late in responding to any of these comments! I took the night off yesterday and watched some cheesy TV with the wife. But back at it tonight with a Thursday fly that I'll bet nobody has heard of. Kind of fun though. :-)
Awesome video as usual. Your timing for this video is a bit uncanny for me, since I just started reading The Flytyiers Manual a couple of hours ago. I purchased both it and The Flytyiers Companion by Mike Dawes (Spiral Edition) in today’s mail so I look forward to your book review video in the future. Mega Thx as always for your great selection of simple yet intriguing patterns to showcase for us newcomers to Fly Tying. However, I do need to actually start tying some of these flies instead of just watching your videos several times. I guess I’m just afraid I’ll tie the flies incorrectly or that they’ll look like garbage.
This is uncanny! You're going to love these books. I think there is some overlap and some of the same patterns are in both but they''re still solid. And my advice for you... get to tying! And don't worry one bit if your first flies are a big mess. Before I tied this Ke-He I spent two hours trying to learn the Teal Blue and Silver from this book and it was such a mess I couldn't even make a video out of it! Seriously, they were all ugly. (Hint: a teal wing is hard to make look good.) One other bit of advice- start with the easy patterns, and tie with a 70 denier thread. It's strong enough to not break much on you, but thin enough that you can get clean heads. If you get good with 70 denier, the other sizes will be a piece of cake. :-)
Mega Thx for the advice and encouragement. I know you’re right about just start tying. I won’t get any better if I keep putting off starting to learn from my mistakes. I’ll try to keep you abreast of my progress. Maybe I’ll tie a few & send to you for a critique
@@hirkojs Please do! People send me pictures all the time. 🙂
Neat
A friendly advice: You should adjust your exposure or dial down your lights. Your fingers and vice are blown out in the video.
Thanks Thomas. I haven’t changed any settings in several videos. Have you noticed the same thing in any of the others? I just rewatched this one, and this mornings video, and a random one from last month and the exposure looked the same to me.
@@SavageFlies I've never seen any other of your videos, but it's quite obvious, that your exposure is off. Look at the top of yours hand and fingers, and on the jaws of the vice. They are totally white = blown out with no detail. You should try to stop down 1-2 stops.
@@thomas-schreiber Thanks Thomas. I’m afraid I’m still not seeing it. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I am a total novice here, but I’ve done 400+ videos for the channel and you’re the first one to have pointed this out. I’ll play around with the settings and see what I can do. Thanks again for the note.
@@SavageFlies OK. It's very obvious if you know something about photography and videography. Also. It's a good idea to light from the view of the camera, and not only from above as you are in your videos. I've done a few humble attempts, and you can see them here: ruclips.net/channel/UC4FWhIkVF2X7ZDW-obg6P3Avideos (If the link is being removed, search for "The Friday Fly" under channels). My setup is so simple and cheap, but the looks are quite good, if I might say so myself.