Fly Tying Supplement - Carrie Stevens Wing Assembly - Canary
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- A supplemental video on Carrie Stevens Wing Assembly - Canary.
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I have been tying a number of Carrie Stevens streamers lately and have mentioned that I would be doing a supplemental tying video on how I assemble the wings for the Carrie Stevens teamers. This video shows how I select, process and assemble the wings for the Carrie Stevens streamer the Canary. The framing is not the best as I am trying to get used to the "over the shoulder" angle and presentation. Fortunately, I will be doing a second video on the selection, process and assembly of the wings for the Carrie Stevens Dave's Special streamer (which will be out in about two weeks). The Dave's Special has a shoulder of Golden Pheasant were as the Canary has no shoulder. I shall endeavor to get the process framed better as well as get sharper close ups.
All in all, this video does explain in detail the selection of various feathers, how I process them as well as how I cement them together. There is enough information and instruction in this video to get you started assembling your own wings for some Carrie Stevens streamers.
Included below is a link to the Hilyard book I mention in the video as well as links to the articles by Don Bastian on cementing these wings. - Enjoy
*** - Carrie G. Stevens: Maker of Rangeley Favorite Trout and Salmon Flies by Graydon Hilyard, Leslie Hilyard - amzn.to/3OX5p9w
*** Rubber Cementing Streamer Wings - by Don Bastian - tinyurl.com/yjh4f3fe
*** Carrie Stevens Streamers - Cementing Wings - by Don Bastian - tinyurl.com/5xa3eej9
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This will make my job infinitely easier in tying multiple feathers together! Without that cement they tend to twist turn and go in all directions. Thank you so much. I’m off to get some cement!
Glad to hear this helps. It can be a bit of a process but it does make applying the wings on these streamers much easier. I will have more information in the supplement on the wings for the Dave's Special. - Ian Anderson
My Carrie Stevens journey started in 1983 when my uncle told me to try trolling a gray ghost with a fly rod. My very first attempt landed me two very nice LL Salmon, I looked at that streamer and thought, I can make that. Mrs. Stevens method is complex in it's simplicity. How this woman went from tying her first fly about 1920 to creating the Gray Ghost in 1924 is astonishing. And along the way creating an assembly method where the streamers fished with little action imparted by the angler. The struggle is real.
I agree, she did all that and being totally self taught! She clearly had a knack for it as well as lots of people, including her husband, who fished and helped stoke the creative fires when it came to new streamers. Makes you wonder... if she had been taught how to tie "eastern" streamers would she have gotten out of that box and developed the "Rangeley" style? - Ian Anderson
Great video and excellent step-by-step instructions. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the fly.
Thank you, I am glad you like the video. The canary will be out later today. Keep an eye out for the Dave's Special in a couple weeks. There will be another supplemental video on assembling the wings for the Dave's Special coming out just before the tying video. - Ian Anderson
Ty for showing this, the preparation is more complex than I thought :) But then that's fly tying for you !
You are welcome, I am glad it helped. All in all, the same preparations have to be made for each fly whether you take the time to glue them together or not. However, having them glued together definitely helps in tying them onto the hook. - Ian Anderson
Great video and extremely easy to understand your process for setting these up before tying. I actually believe that the pre-glued wings on Carrie’s flies fish much better than wings that are tied in a few feathers at a time or each individual feather tied in place. After the glue has set up, it causes the front section of the wings to become more rigid or stiffer than the portions of the wing closer to the tip. As the streamer is pulled through the water or even swung into current in a river, that more rigid front helps keel the fly better, and makes the wing kick and flutter nearer the tip with much less effort on the anglers part. Again, well done! Those Whiting hackles were intensely bright, amazing that the camera was able to catch the detail it did without washing out!
Thank you Mike, my skills with the camera are improving. The late Don Bastian wrote a nice article on his old blog about gluing the wings in Carrie's flies and he and the people he tested the flies with came to the same conclusion. The flies with the preassembled wings fished better, need less interaction from the fisherman and seem to last longer. You wonder if Mrs. Stevens developed this for those reason or just that it made the process of tying the flies easier?? - Ian Anderson
@@DressedIrons honestly, I’m sure the latter, and lucky for us that she decided to do it this way. In all honesty, when pre assembled, they fish wonderfully and I’ve caught my fair share of fish behind these old streamers. Just happy that the pattern is out there for those of us willing to look for it
@@mikehulsey4813 I agree. I am very much enjoying the research and learning just how she tied her patterns and learning more about them. - Ian Anderson
NIce video; I like researching the old techniques and traditional methods. As you mention that CS would occasionally glue the two sides together, I suspect (sometimes) that she may have assembled separate wings and tied the streamer when the wings were not completely dry. The wings sides would then end up glued together - perhaps being in a rush to fill order. This may not have been the case 100% as production tyers try different processes to improve or speed up production.
Thank you, you raise an interesting thought. Being a production fly tier.... did she assemble her wings the way she did in order to make production of her flies more efficient/streamlined or because it made a much better fly? I think a little of both. By preassembling her wings she had greater flexibility in filling orders as well as it made a better fly. - Ian Anderson
Great video. Thank you. I’m going to have to find some rubber cement.
You are welcome, I am glad you found the video helpful. Elmer's rubber cement works great! - Ian Anderson