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Ginger, brown or red game should do just fine 👍

@@garrickeckardflytying thanks man

Oh, golden badger too

Thanks. It's a blend of hares masks. A little dyed black but more natural and as dark as I can find, pretty much exclusively guard hairs, a little pine squirel (optional) all miixed with a very small amount of gold & UV. It's the mix I use for my Purple Badger which I tied in a different vid 👍 talk about it in that a bit

Thanks, it's been a good summer pattern for me in the UK for a few years now 👍

Glad you like it, thanks 👍

I'm sure this will be interesting. Go on then, give me your expert opinion

Happy for you to critique the rest of my work or do you just go around flexing on TH-cam comments 😂

Thanks. Glad you like it 👍

Thank you 😊

Thank you. Great late summer - autumn dry on big waters or when it's windy 👌👍

Thank you. I'm hoping to get some done soon 👍

Thank you. Glad you like it 👍

Thank you 😊

Thank you. I will be doing some of the full length vids soon 👍

Thank you. I will look to do some of the full length videos soon 👍

Hahaha 😆 that would have been smart. Those are the buzzers that go into my box from my vice 👍 Very useful fish catcher. I've actually saved most of these flies as a collection. Thinking of selling of them on ebay or something when I get around to it

I'll tie it in a full length video soon 👍

Thank you 😊

Thanks you 😊 yeah lots of options for the wing. Aero wing, ep trigger point, predator fibres, as long as its wispy and hydrophobic. A few brands do something similar now days. Matching colours can be tricky though

@@garrickeckardflytying Oh yeah, that's right. Thanks for the "memory reboot" There's so many similar products out it's hard to keep track. Thanks again Garrick 👍

No worries 👍

Thanks. I'll try get around to it soon 👍

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Thanks 😊

Not a prob. That's pretty close to how the original PTN was tied 👍

Hi, you're welcome and I'm glad you like it. There's so many options when it comes to variants of good patterns 👍

Haha, no didn't realise. Figured I'd close up the important bits

Thanks. Just a bit of added durability 👍

Thanks mate 👍

Thank you 😊 unfortunately the twisting will be the same as what happens with thread. Each wrap around the hook imparts twist to the wire. You can counter it a bit by spinning the bobbin holder anti-clockwise if you tie right-handed (opposite applies if you tie left-handed). Same premise as thread management, but wire does unfortunately break pretty easily. Another thing is using a ceramic bobbin holder (I don't though). That helps prevent the wire burring and weakening as much as it perhaps can with steel bobbin holders. I did another video of my variant of Sawyer's PTN using thread but still trying to stay true to the original. Should be in the playlist section. Hope that helps 👍

Thanks for your reply, I'll try that. Your variant using the thread looks good also, definitely one I will stock up on over the winter! 👍

Not a prob at all. Hope it helps and the variant works well for you 👍

Thank you, glad you liked it 👍 Yeah it is a true classic. That and a GRHE are two must haves IMO

I absolutely love your videos Garrick, I’ve just started a beginners course at my local club in Staffordshire. Just wondering if you’ve ever been to the International fly show that is normally on every February in Stafford. Keep up the great work my friend Ron

Thank you, glad you like them and you find them helpful. I went to the 2022 BFFI to meet up with some mates and have a walk around. Hopefully, I'm getting down to the next but not on tyers row. Perhaps the one after if I get the invite

Thank you 👍 yeah wanted to keep it quick and simple. No point in trying to reinvent the wheel, just touching it up a bit

They're both in the same family of game birds. French / Red-legged is a slightly larger bird, and the feather used here is a more striking flank feather than what you'd find on a grey partridge 👍

@garrickeckardflytying thanks Garrick. In my youth they were all Grey Partridges and Red Legs were interlopers. I have a grey partridge skin and feel guilty for not using it enough.

Not a problem at all. I think red-legged are now more prominent than the indigenous grey partridge. Nothing wrong with subbing grey for the head hackle, especially dyed golden olive for these style of mayfly patterns. Gosling with dyed golden olive flanks from a grey partridge is a lovely variant.

Thank you 😊 👍

You're welcome 👍

Not a prob at all. Glad you find it helpful. Sounds like you're going to be busy on the tying bench then 👍

Cheers Lawrence 👍

Yeah sure. Black hackle, pheasant tail dyed black, fluoro chartreuse biots, UV and silver wire 👍

Hi mate, blend of seals fur (medium and golden olive, apple green and brown mixed with a lot of UV). Medium olive marabou, fine kingfisher blue tinsel, peacock tyers mate for the ribbing, medium olive partridge and 5mm olive foam 👍

Thank you. Glad you like it 👍

Thank you 😊 👍

Thank you 😊 I haven't done the full length video yet but do plan to soon. Just testing the waters on what people think of the really short vids

@@garrickeckardflytying Well you've got my vote on a full length video!

I'll try get one done soon then 👍

They're just mini shorts I'm trying. Hopefully offer some inspiration for anyone looking to tie something like it

Yup, a true classic Mr Sawyer provided us with. Another little tweak I like is to add a small amount of hare's mask as a thorax to it. Wax the wire and dub directly to the wire. A little bit of leggy movement to it

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

In all honesty, I don't count them anymore. I use the width of the thorax to gauge the width of the wings. If you're splitting the wings, that's usually because the thread tension is in a wrapping motion. To avoid that, you'll need to use a pinch and loop. This allows you to apply tension upwards and not in a wrapping motion. I'll be covering this in a tutorial soon if it's helps. If you're really stuck and struggling, let me know. I'll put something together for you. Perhaps DM me on Facebook and I'll give you hand with it. Thanks GRE 👍

Good question. Down to personal preference in all honesty. I like the micro fibres on pheasant tail. They're cheaper, and I have them readily available in abundance. I tend to save my turkey tails for other patterns. Don't see the turkey as important enough trigger to warrant it. In fairness, my mainstay working GRHE doesn't even have the wing pads. Thanks GRE

Thanks Chris. It's a pattern that I came up with last year. I'll redo the full video soon. It was the product of fishing different venues in the North of England. I wanted something that incorporated trigger points from different things which were around when fishing and sampling the small still waters and reservoirs I was on. I did fair load of sampling and fishing over a few months and that was the pattern I worked on to get it how I wanted. Hope it works for you as it has me 👍

Thank you for the kind words, but I'm not quite at Davies level. Still a long way to go but one needs a lifelong pursuit 🤗

Fair enough. Trout and many anglers haven't thought that since nymph fishing was popularised some time back

The pheasant tail nymph is one of my most successful flies in my arsenal. I agree with you there. Your method of tying however is bad. Fly tying is an art and some people are just not artistically inclined. The wrapping on the thorax before you secured the wingcase? What was that?

Might be worth researching who Frank Sawyer was and how he tied the fly seeing as he was the one who actually came up with it lol 👍

@@rndm_dude_1 you have clearly never fished or tied a sawyer’s pheasant tail! 🤡

I came up with a lot of flies that work a lot better then that fly. I don’t think he meant the pheasant is a bad fly it was just a haggard tie is all.

Thanks Michael, glad you like it 👍