Good morning folks, hope everyone is finding time to hopefully enjoy some of their hobbies in these very foreign times we find ourselves currently in. It is a cold rainy day here as I type this, so why not grab your coffee or favorite morning beverage, and watch a tying video to start your day. I have threatened to showcase this fly for a couple of seasons now, and I finally was able to set aside the time to put this one together. As I clearly state in the tying sequence, this particular pattern has been one of my most productive streamer patterns in the last couple of seasons, specifically last year.
You could argue that would be simply because I chose to fish it more with my guide clients, and you would be correct in assuming that, but the enjoyment one gets out of seeing this fly dance in the water due to it's neutral bouyancy, and the aggression it ilicits from the fish combine to make this particular style of fly a really difficult pattern to shelve when it is working well. So sit back, sip your coffee and enjoy this fly pattern, I know have and I hope you all like it as much as I do.
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Back again at the vise and video with yet another installment this week. This particular streamer pattern garnered a great deal of interest, so I decided to put it to video. The basis of this pattern comes from Lefty's Deceiver, with a couple of finer nuances demonstrated in the flies construction. What you will notice once you begin watching is a slightly different take on setting the tails on this fly. Like I frequently like to convey is that there are many ways that you can achieve the same outcome in a flies design if you are willing to experiment a little bit. I hope this video conveys that message clearly.
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So to keep up with my promise of adding tying videos on a regular basis, this week we are revisiting an older pattern of mine. The Ice Pick streamers has been around for close to a decade now, and with it some minor tweeks have come to light due to some newer materials that make life a little easier. In this video you will see a few of those newer materials as well as how to construct what I consider to be the workhorse size of this fly.
This particular patterns came into fruition from inspiration from the Zonker streamer, which is one of the patterns that I personally fished a great deal in my younger years. The original Zonkers had some limitations to them; the first being the design didn't really translate "neatly" into an articulated variation so that never really took off. And secondly, I was never quite a fan of many of the commercially tied renditions as the rabbit strips were frequently cut too short to prevent fouling while fished, which also cut down on the amount of movement that could be incorporated into this pattern by keeping the tails long. In the end I borrowed a technique from the salt water world that helped solve that problem and the Ice Pick came to fruition. I also talk in detail on some of the other inspiration behind the pattern and ways to vary the head design. Grab your coffee or beverage of choice and give this one a watch.
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