Back in the 1960's Phil DeMetri of the Housatonic River was fishing 3/0 8x long streamer flies. He caught some very impressive trout on them. He once told me; despite his use of the big flies that a #6 6x long fly is the most effective streamer size of all. Glad to see you essentially saying much the same thing. There is a time for all variations of our fly tying creations. Your presentations are excellent. Thank You!
Kelly -- i really appreciate your honesty about tying and trimming and your lessons in HOW TO do this and that - and ALL the extra information you include free of charge! Great fly - thank you
Hey Kelly and crew, just want to say thanks for doing these. They expand and advance what's in the DVDs and your insight into design and details is great, stuff a person can't get from other people tying your flies.
This looks the business. My type of pattern all day long and the shape of the head at the front using that hair is first class. Great video guys, one of the best tutorials yet imo
Thanks for the videos Kelly, Johnny and others, they've been very helpful! Also, I ordered tying materials from your shop and was really impressed by the quality, there isn't a good fly shop near where I live so I often need to order materials online and it usually pretty hit or miss, but these were remarkably good.
First season for me tying and using this fly. I was out with 3 fellow fishermen and they caught nothing while I caught some tiny perch on a clouser. Then I tied the mini dungeon on and had bite after bite. Big perch and decent chub. The profile and the articulation of the dungeon must be the trigger. Same thing happened the same day some hours later. Looking forward to the next day fishing this! Thanks for sharing such a detailed tutorial of your fly!!! This will certainly catch some big fish in autumn.
This exact fly scored me my biggest Brown on fly, or any fish. I am one year converted from spin gear. Silk kitty is next, im convinced it will become my next favorite. In reality, I love them all. My biggest producers are the bangtails, flatliners, belly bumpers, and now the dungeons. This dungeon is a Rockstar. Thank you sir!
Try the original Zoo Cougar. I swear it's produce more 20+ inch browns than any other fly I've used in 20 years. I hands never caught anything but browns on the dang thing. It's like it was created just for them.
@@Ericbyhookorbycrook yellow. It's the only yellow fly in my box. I never have luck with that color in any other pattern, but it's by far my favorite. I'll tie 10 yellows to 1 black or olive. I only use yellow
@joshhigdon4951 thanks again. About to be hit with another decent snow here in Pa, anticipating an opportunity to tie some up this weekend. I only just finished my second fly, but I'm ready to try a new pattern. Let the games begin! Yellow-ish, it will be, I only have natural hair at the moment, but the back side could go yellow easily. Life is good.👍🏻
Really enjoying these videos. Like you guys I make my videos longer to let people see the flies tied and explained. I like your style than these other guys that fast forward through it to some horrible glitchhop soundtrack. Totally agree about people not taking stuff back off, it's the most common thing I tell people when I do classes- pity they never listen... All the best Martyn
Have to say in two of your vids I've completely changed my philosophy on how to tie any flies. Quit hoarding and quit trying to save on materials :p Fantastic tutorials! ;)
Although I like the intro graphic, I find it very useful seeing the finished fly as the video thumbnail. Good move and thanks for the quality content as always!
when i tied my first mini dungeon (before i watched this particular video) i wound up setting the eyes between the commercial eyes and the original eyes, two stacks behind, then a good spin up front, i really liked the result.
Cool ! 2 thumbs up ! Nice tutorial ! So fun to see the real model get tied. I don’t know why super fast speed tutorial seems to krushhhhh original model ! Hop for a récapitulation of your model.
Awesome Video and killer fly! I like to use tan coloured sculpin wool thinly spun in a dubbing loop as a substitute for the deer hair. Looks awesome, and your fly sinks faster while still pushing a good amount of water, though sculpin wool is not as effective as deer hair concerning the last point. You can also add some bars to the head with a dark brown or grey marker pen.
Awesome fly. You are a true artist. I really want to tie some of these and Zoo Cougars for largemouth fishing. Wondering what Denier GSP Thread is that? Thanks for the details on All the materials and how to select. I want to visit your shop and fish (hunt) the Madison sometime. You’re exactly 1,500 miles from Fredericksburg Tx. so I have to plan a trip. Thanks again! 🎣
After foul hooking several fish with articulated flies a couple in the eye. I'm going to clip one hook from my Dungeons. Should I clip the front hook or trailing hook? If the trailing hook is clipped will that result in short strikes? The rear of the fly is really no longer than a wooly bugger tail. So may it would be best to clip the rear hook?
Kelly, should have been more specific. After you already attached front and the rear sections, you secured the rear section of the fly in what looks like some type of rubber or some sort of stretching material. It looks like it really helps keep the rear section out of the way. At the 32:04 part of the video.
Anthony, oh got it. That is just a piece of a rubber band I put slit in. I drilled a hole in the material clip and put a ring eye screw in the clip. I had a small dental rubber band on there originally and it finally broke so I just cut a piece a rubber band and put a slit in each end and pulled it over the screw. Then just a slit in the end the hook goes thru.The lighter rubber band worked better because it wasn't stronger than the clip and with the bigger rubber band it will pull the clip down on occasion. KG
Hi, So much information...Just a question,,,,When was the original SD first tied and fished,,Looking at SDs history says a lot to the development of Mini SD....Thanks,,,,John
Nice, concise video, Kelly. . . I've come to believe that the rubber legs are important to the profile. I'd get quite a few of these minnow trapping years ago. When they lie on the bottom, they spread their pecs like a mud-skipper. The bony part of the fins are root beer colored. And, they do extend back to mid-body length, crossing through the mottled appearance. I can't say that is critical to success, but, since I bought into that BS from your tying years ago, I'm not changing now. ;-)
Any idea if putting the lead eyes on top would successfully invert the hook? I could see the deer hair being to buoyant and causing the whole thing to ride sideways.
Another great, informative video. I know it's a couple of years old, but I have a question regarding the length of the collar. You say you want it so it extends about a third of the body length, but then you tie it so it's a third of the front hook’s body length. If I'm trying a single hook sculpin pattern, is the collar a quarter to a third of the overall body length, or is it less? I'm just trying to think through proportions...
Randy, I basically just go with a third to a quarter the length of the hook, doesn't matter what you end up with if you like the way looks and it swims, its more so that you have a way to get the collar the same every time. I had a tendency to make my collars to short when I was younger and it always bugged me so I started using the hook as a gage and didn't have the problem anymore. thanks man, Kelly
Kelly you do the best videos. As a tier since the 70's I learn a lot watching your ties both the oral instruction and also by watching your unspoken tips. I have a question in regards to the marabou tails for the Wooly Sculpin and the Dungeon. You recommend placing the grizzly over the cream marabou feather, but when I tie it and all the photos I have seen of those flies the orientation is side by side. To me these two feathers lack symmetry and do not appear in the correct placement when completed.
Thanks Paul, Not sure how the others are done but I always stack mine, if I am two toning my tails it has to go as a stack. Seems like it would be hard to get then to lay properly if they were side by side? I also two tone a lot of my own flies like the one attached but regardless I stack mine. Kelly th-cam.com/video/30lgdN2vQRQ/w-d-xo.html
@@TheSlideinn Kelly, Currently tying a mini dungeon, for the streamer I used a cream marabou as bottom tail feather with two less dense grissly marabou feathers paired over bottom cream marabou. I like the way the three feathers look, thicker marabou at the bottom with two paired feathers stacked on top.
Thanks for the response, I was kinda thinking the same thing but after watching the how to choose a hook I didn't know if having the same size/brand/model would impede movement. I'll give it a go! Thanks again.
Sean, in areas with a single hook law I cut the back hook off but I try to leave some of the bend, seems to track the fly a little better? Dont think it make that much difference though. Thanks, KG
Kelly, This is my first articulating fly I've ever tried to tie. What are you using to secure the rear fly? i have the same vice as you so i figured id copy you ( if you don't mind lol)
One product that is perfect for this fly is Indian Rooster Saddle. You can use the Barred Dark Ginger on the Natural Mini Dungeon and the saddle is only $6.00 per pack. Here's the link to it: www.slideinn.com/product/natures-spirit-indian-rooster-saddle-patch/
I am looking for guest tiers for a zoom tying demonstration. Our group generally has 30 participants. Would you be interested in doing one? They are on Wednesday evening for about 2 hours. If so, let me know and we can talk.
Love your uploads u seem to be hard at work putting videos out this winter. Heading ur way ion presidents weekend hope u have good deals for me then hope to see u then
Heh, I was lucky enough to be invited to WY for some fly fishing, and after a day of fucking with dries, watching guys throw dries on a dropper and even, (GASP!) a BOBBER, I decided to put my New England streamers to the test, as the dries and nymphs were only yielding average and smaller trout. Well... I tossed on a fat sculpin that I catch everything from brookies to rainbows and browns on and what do you know? I started drawing the bigger trout in -sometimes they'd streak at it from 10 ft away and in heavy current! My nephew told me, "Kelly Galloup does this with fat streamers all the time!" I was like, "Who the heck is Kelly Galloup?" He was shocked, but told me how you've been doing this for years out here with great success. No small wonder there, as when trout adjust to the leaner and relatively bug short months of late summer, (it was August,) they start to get territorial and ravenously hungry for bait fish who are also in their prime... and hit streamers like a ton of bricks. We hit a fly shop and picked up this fly and a few other Galloup designs and SLAYED the cutthroats the rest of the week while the dry guys suffered through picky bites and short fish. I've been a shore-bomber since I first picked up a fly rod many years ago, and have always enjoyed chucking streamers around. Thanks, KG. For keeping it real. Thanks for this pattern, too! I'm sitting down to tie versions of it that may work well out here on some large browns in MA. Wiggle Wiggle... SMASH!
Back in the 1960's Phil DeMetri of the Housatonic River was fishing 3/0 8x long streamer flies. He caught some very impressive trout on them. He once told me; despite his use of the big flies that a #6 6x long fly is the most effective streamer size of all. Glad to see you essentially saying much the same thing. There is a time for all variations of our fly tying creations. Your presentations are excellent. Thank You!
Kelly -- i really appreciate your honesty about tying and trimming and your lessons in HOW TO do this and that - and ALL the extra information you include free of charge! Great fly - thank you
" If you're going to fish a fly you don't have to mess with a it a lot, but you just do". Probably the most accurate fly tying quote of all time
Honestly, that was powerful like my father told me I’m the only one left as a 16 year old
Hey Kelly and crew, just want to say thanks for doing these. They expand and advance what's in the DVDs and your insight into design and details is great, stuff a person can't get from other people tying your flies.
Thanks Kevin and we’ve got some more rolling out for you guys over the next several months.
I quit watching crappy TV this winter and I watch nothing but Mr Galloup tying streamers. Most knowledgeable and best tutorials bar none.
And a great way to stay away from the news. Tying in quarantine 😆
This looks the business. My type of pattern all day long and the shape of the head at the front using that hair is first class. Great video guys, one of the best tutorials yet imo
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the videos Kelly, Johnny and others, they've been very helpful! Also, I ordered tying materials from your shop and was really impressed by the quality, there isn't a good fly shop near where I live so I often need to order materials online and it usually pretty hit or miss, but these were remarkably good.
First season for me tying and using this fly. I was out with 3 fellow fishermen and they caught nothing while I caught some tiny perch on a clouser. Then I tied the mini dungeon on and had bite after bite. Big perch and decent chub. The profile and the articulation of the dungeon must be the trigger. Same thing happened the same day some hours later. Looking forward to the next day fishing this! Thanks for sharing such a detailed tutorial of your fly!!! This will certainly catch some big fish in autumn.
Hands down most informative tying videos out there. Kudos to you on spending the time to put the videos out.
Yes, this is the video I have been looking for! Thanks a lot Kelly, I’ve learned so much from your video series!
Thanks man and we’re glad you’ve been enjoying these
This exact fly scored me my biggest Brown on fly, or any fish. I am one year converted from spin gear. Silk kitty is next, im convinced it will become my next favorite. In reality, I love them all. My biggest producers are the bangtails, flatliners, belly bumpers, and now the dungeons. This dungeon is a Rockstar. Thank you sir!
Try the original Zoo Cougar. I swear it's produce more 20+ inch browns than any other fly I've used in 20 years. I hands never caught anything but browns on the dang thing. It's like it was created just for them.
@@joshhigdon4951 I will absolutely pick some up. Thank you for the advice. This streamer game is a blast.
@joshhigdon4951 what color is your favorite? I'm sure they will all have their moments. But everyone has a favorite
@@Ericbyhookorbycrook yellow. It's the only yellow fly in my box. I never have luck with that color in any other pattern, but it's by far my favorite. I'll tie 10 yellows to 1 black or olive. I only use yellow
@joshhigdon4951 thanks again. About to be hit with another decent snow here in Pa, anticipating an opportunity to tie some up this weekend. I only just finished my second fly, but I'm ready to try a new pattern. Let the games begin! Yellow-ish, it will be, I only have natural hair at the moment, but the back side could go yellow easily. Life is good.👍🏻
A typical fly for the browns of the Limay River here in Patagonia. Thank you for je video.
Really enjoying these videos. Like you guys I make my videos longer to let people see the flies tied and explained. I like your style than these other guys that fast forward through it to some horrible glitchhop soundtrack.
Totally agree about people not taking stuff back off, it's the most common thing I tell people when I do classes- pity they never listen...
All the best
Martyn
These are some of my favorites to use. The legs fell off one of the ones I've been using and it still catches plenty of fish.
Have to say in two of your vids I've completely changed my philosophy on how to tie any flies. Quit hoarding and quit trying to save on materials :p Fantastic tutorials! ;)
Although I like the intro graphic, I find it very useful seeing the finished fly as the video thumbnail. Good move and thanks for the quality content as always!
Thanks for your feedback and we are in the process of updating the other thumbnails to this format.
Wonderful video and I’m excited to tie this. Thank you for sharing!
when i tied my first mini dungeon (before i watched this particular video) i wound up setting the eyes between the commercial eyes and the original eyes, two stacks behind, then a good spin up front, i really liked the result.
Fantastic fly thanks for sharing that I will give it a try thank you again please keep sending these great looking flies
Cool ! 2 thumbs up ! Nice tutorial ! So fun to see the real model get tied. I don’t know why super fast speed tutorial seems to krushhhhh original model ! Hop for a récapitulation of your model.
Nice meditative video to calm me down before exams this week!
Really enjoying these videos
Awesome Video and killer fly!
I like to use tan coloured sculpin wool thinly spun in a dubbing loop as a substitute for the deer hair. Looks awesome, and your fly sinks faster while still pushing a good amount of water, though sculpin wool is not as effective as deer hair concerning the last point.
You can also add some bars to the head with a dark brown or grey marker pen.
I’m starting to lose it now everytime you say: “I’m gonna use Johnny’s scissors.”!! 😆😆
Hi Kelly, I am tying some of these for VA fishing in May. The guide suggested the Dungeon. What colors would ou recommend?
Awesome fly. You are a true artist. I really want to tie some of these and Zoo Cougars for largemouth fishing. Wondering what Denier GSP Thread is that? Thanks for the details on All the materials and how to select. I want to visit your shop and fish (hunt) the Madison sometime. You’re exactly 1,500 miles from Fredericksburg Tx. so I have to plan a trip. Thanks again! 🎣
Charlie, Hope you can make it up to see us. I use 100 on almost all my streamers. Thanks, Kelly
Well done Kelly! Great tie, great fly.
Tied some up and fished them last weekend and boy they move the fish. I tied without silly leg and still put a hurt on the fish. Thanka Kelly
After foul hooking several fish with articulated flies a couple in the eye. I'm going to clip one hook from my Dungeons. Should I clip the front hook or trailing hook? If the trailing hook is clipped will that result in short strikes? The rear of the fly is really no longer than a wooly bugger tail. So may it would be best to clip the rear hook?
What was your first fly have you ever did on TH-cam 🤔
Hi, great video !
Do you need to fish it on sinking line or you can use a floating line?
In my waters we can only use one hook if so should the hook be in back of fly or front with shankin back
Kelly, should have been more specific. After you already attached front and the rear sections, you secured the rear section of the fly in what looks like some type of rubber or some sort of stretching material. It looks like it really helps keep the rear section out of the way. At the 32:04 part of the video.
Anthony, oh got it. That is just a piece of a rubber band I put slit in. I drilled a hole in the material clip and put a ring eye screw in the clip. I had a small dental rubber band on there originally and it finally broke so I just cut a piece a rubber band and put a slit in each end and pulled it over the screw. Then just a slit in the end the hook goes thru.The lighter rubber band worked better because it wasn't stronger than the clip and with the bigger rubber band it will pull the clip down on occasion. KG
So you don’t need bare hook to set the collar? It can be right on top of the wing, legs, etc.?
Hi, So much information...Just a question,,,,When was the original SD first tied and fished,,Looking at SDs history says a lot to the development of Mini SD....Thanks,,,,John
Nice, concise video, Kelly. . . I've come to believe that the rubber legs are important to the profile. I'd get quite a few of these minnow trapping years ago. When they lie on the bottom, they spread their pecs like a mud-skipper. The bony part of the fins are root beer colored. And, they do extend back to mid-body length, crossing through the mottled appearance. I can't say that is critical to success, but, since I bought into that BS from your tying years ago, I'm not changing now. ;-)
Any idea if putting the lead eyes on top would successfully invert the hook? I could see the deer hair being to buoyant and causing the whole thing to ride sideways.
Another great, informative video. I know it's a couple of years old, but I have a question regarding the length of the collar. You say you want it so it extends about a third of the body length, but then you tie it so it's a third of the front hook’s body length. If I'm trying a single hook sculpin pattern, is the collar a quarter to a third of the overall body length, or is it less? I'm just trying to think through proportions...
Randy, I basically just go with a third to a quarter the length of the hook, doesn't matter what you end up with if you like the way looks and it swims, its more so that you have a way to get the collar the same every time. I had a tendency to make my collars to short when I was younger and it always bugged me so I started using the hook as a gage and didn't have the problem anymore. thanks man, Kelly
Had to laugh about hoarding the Cree, that's me. I'm going to tie a few of these with it instead of just taking it out and stroking once in awhile!
Great instruction!!! I love these type of videos.......Ginsu knives!!! Man, I laughed my ass off--“order before midnight!!!!”
Thanks Kelly. Excellent as usual!
Thanks Gerald
When you have the hands of a surgeon, but you love fly fishing for trout.
Kelly you do the best videos. As a tier since the 70's I learn a lot watching your ties both the oral instruction and also by watching your unspoken tips. I have a question in regards to the marabou tails for the Wooly Sculpin and the Dungeon. You recommend placing the grizzly over the cream marabou feather, but when I tie it and all the photos I have seen of those flies the orientation is side by side. To me these two feathers lack symmetry and do not appear in the correct placement when completed.
Thanks Paul, Not sure how the others are done but I always stack mine, if I am two toning my tails it has to go as a stack. Seems like it would be hard to get then to lay properly if they were side by side? I also two tone a lot of my own flies like the one attached but regardless I stack mine. Kelly th-cam.com/video/30lgdN2vQRQ/w-d-xo.html
@@TheSlideinn Kelly,
Currently tying a mini dungeon, for the streamer I used a cream marabou as bottom tail feather with two less dense grissly marabou feathers paired over bottom cream marabou. I like the way the three feathers look, thicker marabou at the bottom with two paired feathers stacked on top.
Man you make tying with GSP look easy. It looks like you have zero thread tension but your materials stay where you put them. Dammit I suck.
I like the vids. Awesome. Galloup wisdom. No nonsense. Your a pro.
i was watching your vid on reels what are your thought on the okuma integrity i
Is this designed to be fished on a sinking line, or will it fish properly on a floating line?
Curious question, if one was to use this pattern for pike, is there a hook recommendation you might have?
Jason, you could tie a regular Sex Dungeon or a Triple Dungeon and use 2/0 Universal Predator X’s from Partridge for Pike
Thanks for the response, I was kinda thinking the same thing but after watching the how to choose a hook I didn't know if having the same size/brand/model would impede movement. I'll give it a go! Thanks again.
I have to be really careful in my state about fishing with one hook. Maybe I'll just clip the trailing hood on its bend?
Sean, in areas with a single hook law I cut the back hook off but I try to leave some of the bend, seems to track the fly a little better? Dont think it make that much difference though. Thanks, KG
Kelly, This is my first articulating fly I've ever tried to tie. What are you using to secure the rear fly? i have the same vice as you so i figured id copy you ( if you don't mind lol)
Anthony, .38 mm braided stainless. Glad you got that vice now its just you and me with one. Thanks for watching, KG
thats a real exspensive fly! just that Saddle you got there is how much?
Rat, I use neck hackle generally off the top of low grade dry fly necks, you can use cheaper strung hackle too. KG
i see like grizzly hackle saddle is getting crazxy in price but thanks fer the reply..
One product that is perfect for this fly is Indian Rooster Saddle. You can use the Barred Dark Ginger on the Natural Mini Dungeon and the saddle is only $6.00 per pack. Here's the link to it: www.slideinn.com/product/natures-spirit-indian-rooster-saddle-patch/
Great profile indeed, Kelly has the right touch.
Thanks Ron!
Kudos for a job well done Kelly that takes talent to tie like that .
I can't believe he cut the wire with Johnny's scissors.
How is this fly fished? Dead drift? Figure 8 retrieve?
Cole, you can fish it anyway you want. It is a good dead drifter but I usually fish it with a slower jiggy style, thanks. KG
Are you going to offer the Mini Dungeon as a kit as well?
Yes we are and we should have the kits available on our website by next week
Great fly
love the BHA shirt.
I am looking for guest tiers for a zoom tying demonstration. Our group generally has 30 participants. Would you be interested in doing one? They are on Wednesday evening for about 2 hours. If so, let me know and we can talk.
What is the name of the stacker?
It is called a JHNIC Stacker they are on our online store: www.slideinn.com/product/productjhnic-easy-hair-stacker/
Awesome fly. I caught a huge catfish on one.
What vise is that?
4000
TheSlideinn TY kindly
Love your uploads u seem to be hard at work putting videos out this winter. Heading ur way ion presidents weekend hope u have good deals for me then hope to see u then
Excellent just excellent✌
The loop rules, no matter what you're tying.
Thanks video!
👍
Perfect downsized version for my smaller UK rivers
Liked the Hindu Knife reference.
Hind
Hate spell check
I love the feathers, you get 2 for 1. Will you write me the name
Heh, I was lucky enough to be invited to WY for some fly fishing, and after a day of fucking with dries, watching guys throw dries on a dropper and even, (GASP!) a BOBBER, I decided to put my New England streamers to the test, as the dries and nymphs were only yielding average and smaller trout. Well... I tossed on a fat sculpin that I catch everything from brookies to rainbows and browns on and what do you know? I started drawing the bigger trout in -sometimes they'd streak at it from 10 ft away and in heavy current!
My nephew told me, "Kelly Galloup does this with fat streamers all the time!" I was like, "Who the heck is Kelly Galloup?"
He was shocked, but told me how you've been doing this for years out here with great success. No small wonder there, as when trout adjust to the leaner and relatively bug short months of late summer, (it was August,) they start to get territorial and ravenously hungry for bait fish who are also in their prime... and hit streamers like a ton of bricks.
We hit a fly shop and picked up this fly and a few other Galloup designs and SLAYED the cutthroats the rest of the week while the dry guys suffered through picky bites and short fish.
I've been a shore-bomber since I first picked up a fly rod many years ago, and have always enjoyed chucking streamers around.
Thanks, KG. For keeping it real.
Thanks for this pattern, too!
I'm sitting down to tie versions of it that may work well out here on some large browns in MA.
Wiggle Wiggle... SMASH!
thanks Scott, glad to have helped a little. let me know how they go in NE. KG
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So much information...Just a question,,,,When was the original SD first tied and fished,,Looking at SDs history says a lot to the development of tMSD
54 minutes to tie one fly. I think you like to hear your own voice.
There is a fast forward button, its the cure to having to listen to me
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Fantastic fly thanks for sharing that I will give it a try thank you again please keep sending these great looking flies