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That's awesome! Reach out anytime with questions! Always into helping family!! 💪💪

All I can tell you is that I've used it for years and never had it fail.

I made that mat based on pure need, it works fantastic. I'll create a how to video. Thanks for the recommendation.

Yes it is!!

Incredibly! Have caught pike, walleye, steelhead and stripers using this knot! Love it!

Yeah thanks, I've moved away from the background music. Thanks for the feedback.

Been fishing these flies for a long time and never effed up a fish. Appreciate the comments and concern but no need. Feel free to modify the pattern as you like.

That sounds great, enjoy!

I really had fun making this video! Glad you enjoyed!!

I love that knot, I'm sure you will too! Glad I could help!!

Yes, yes it is!

More to come! 😁

Such a great fly!

Awesome, thank you!

Yes!

@@TroutTornado have you had much success drifting crawfish patterns in the current? Over been using OPST for years here in Utah and am wanting to experiment with some new techniques.

Great! 👍

Thank you! Cheers!

Mono lasts longer than wire, wire wears a grove and fails... Mono has never failed me and swivels like crazy from day 1 to 1000!!

@@TroutTornado this is my first time trying to tie a flies.. and I'm thinking of using a Cockles Feather for a streamer.. or is there any other type of feather besides a Cockles?

Glad you enjoy the video!

I had no idea!! Glad you like it!!

Yes it is, thanks for helping me figure it out!

Glad you like it! It's an awesome knot!

There's just something about that wiggle tail and jigging action that drives the fish crazy! Enjoy and good luck in Alaska!

The Hesse knot is the bomb! Caught serious fish without failure! Try it and you'll be happy!!

Yeah, I figured that out and have never looked back! Big fish eat size 22 flies and have no problem eating a mini streamer! Check out the M&M and Microburst I know they work in PA! Enjoy and glad you're enjoying the channel!

I'm still trying to figure out how to manage my rods on the watermaster. Today all I do is put them along my side, and let them hang there. Not the best system. A friend of mine plays around with some Scotty mounts. I'm going to continue to look and try to find something better.

@@TroutTornado Ya I'm trying out the Scotty's as well. Let me know if you develop something you like better!

You can trim the Hesse knot down so there are no tags as well. Wait till you tie it on a 5X, you can actually create a taper with the knot, so good!!

@@TroutTornado I love new knots! There are so many things that make them worthwhile. I use surgeons knots of the fine stuff, I will try this out on the fine stuff and see if I prefer it. Cheers!

Good question. I don't lose any leader material because I use a small barrel swivel at the end of my leader. I tie my tippit onto the barrel swivel. Works like a charm! 😁

Yeah I wish! He's an amazing fisherman and fly innovator!

It's a Watermaster, Kodiak... great boat! Let me know if you have other questions.

@TroutTornado awesome thanks for letting me know. Are you happy with it? I've got a float tube but it doesn't have oars so I'm looking at other options. Appreciate your input

I absolutely love it, it's been a game changer for me. Really opened up miles of water and helped with stealth!

Math was never my strong suit, better to go long anyway! :) I caught that mistake too and put a note in the video (@15:04) after I measured it and it was 1 3/4"! Enjoy tying it!

I understand your initial confusion with the tying process, but I'm glad you found the pattern and tying method to be awesome and simplistic in the end. I love the guys at OPST, it's cool that you noticed similarities to the Graboid Leech pattern, particularly in how the rear hook is attached. That's also why I reference Jerry French in the video, I think he was a disciple of OSPT as well. Your idea of using a 27 mm shank with a rear trailer hook sounds like a sweet modification that will work well! Tight lines to you as well, and I hope your adapted version of this pattern brings you success on the water.

Don't knock it, till you try it! Two flies are better than one!

Thank you. It's easy to get caught up in a rod for this and that! Really we only need a few to be successful! Diversity in lines is really the key! Good luck!

This stupid contraption works awesome and makes me laugh every time I use it!

I would not recommend the three-weight for steelhead fishing. I would step up to a four or five weight... Then you'd be all set for steelhead!!

Is this thesame set-up, when you catch that carp?

And what is the specic name of your reel?

No, I use a seven weight 10 ft for the carp.

No, I use a 20-year-old 10 ft 7 weight from Loomis.

Thanks

Sold my Dyna King so I could get the HMH. So glad I did, can tie anything from a size 22 to a 2/0+! My only complaint is that the jaws of the tip of the vice are a little soft, and have deformed a little bit.

Thank you, so glad you like them!

Thanks!

You'll have absolutely no troubles with that length of a cast! Enjoy and good luck!! Reach out to me on Instagram if you have other questions.

@@TroutTornado Thank you so much!!!

Thanks! I only share when I have some new and interesting flies to share! 😃

Well, that'd be interesting!! 🤣🤣

Thanks! I only share flies that catch fish!

I'm thinking of buying a new one, something similar to the HMH, any tips? I have an Apex Vise Anvil, but the jaw has already started to jam.

I really like it, overall I'd give it an 8 out of 10. Pro's holds all hook sizes from a 2/0 to a 20! Once you get it clamped down, hooks don't move, great rotation, smooth as silk! Con's you really need to crank down on the hook, and leverage the dial to make it hold (but once you do it's great). Also the jaws aren't 100% immune to damage from hooks... the jaws are ever so slightly damaged from me cranking down on the hooks.

That's funny, great comment!! 😅😅

Glad you enjoyed it

Black is always a really good color to use in off color water! Good luck!

​@@TroutTornado I greet you. Super classic answer, black is already viewed. I use the Fire Tiger wobbler from Rapala for spinning, but the CLN works better here. I tried tying it as a streamer, my colleague was excited, but it doesn't work. Maybe with your new method it will finally change. tied CLN color from Rapala with a red head. An ordinary Red Head can please rainbow trout on a bite, like a summer streamer...

Think of water as an ingredient in the fly, with water, and sparse materials comes movement and life. Also with less materials comes translucency, so the fly does not look solid against the sky. Remember baitfish are camouflaged so they dont get eaten.

great question, you could use one of the tags and if you did it would be the heavier test..