I was getting excited when I saw the title - Falk Fly... I was like cool, Peter Falk and the deer hair is Columbo's rain coat... 🤣 Just one more thing. . . Nice pattern...
Again, really appreciate the history you give on these flies. Great how a department store had an in-house fly tier, and someone would come over on lunch to watch.
That is interesting, isn't it? Those days are certainly long gone but it's pretty cool to look back on how the folks who came before us lived. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Interesting history & nicely tied. Maybe a distant relative to a Stimulator? I’ll bet you could increase the size for when you see stoneflies in the air. If you want the floss to stand out more, you might want to use white thread on the body under the floss, & then switch to black after tying off the floss.
Yep, good call Bob. Ken mentioned the same thing. I always think of those things after I'm done tying or recording. Fly history has such a muddled past sometimes. When did Kaufmann come up with his stimulator? I can't recall without looking it up. But I'm betting it was after 1945 when LaFollette came up with this one. And what did the one that he saw Audrey Joy tying look like? Did she come up with the palmered body? Or was that something LaFollette added? We'll probably never know. I'm not sure, but I think a lot of palmered flies like this or the stimulators were inspired by the soldier palmer which has been around for at least 300 years.
Wonderful job tying this fly Matt. You make working with deer and elk hair look soooo easy. I've added this one to my list of flies I'm tying for my trip to Idaho this July. Thanks to you, I've got all my free time filled up with flies to tie. You're an inspiration. Thanks for your dedication to us newbies.
Cool looking fly! I shared this with a couple of my FF buddies. We fish the N. Platte in the Platte valley near Saratoga WY. Love old school patterns. One of my favorites is a McGinty! Thank you!!
Another nice one ! Back story of the fly is always interesting. I will be giving this one a try. Thanks Matt ! Everyone stay safe and have a great day!
Good morning Matt. Excellent old fly today. Enjoy the history of these oldies and the neat part is that between appearing in books or here on the channel the story and the fly will be around even longer. Suffering through a bit of cold snap here at the moment. Hasn’t been above freezing for a few days. Southern part of the province is supposed to get heavy snow. Supposed to miss us 😀. Warmer weather is supposedly on its way.
Well I'll keep my fingers crossed that it misses you John. It has been in the low 80s here this week (quite warm). I think spring is officially here... I just took the heaters out of all my rabbit and chicken waterers. :-) And I like your thought that making videos of some of these old semi-forgotten flies will help keep them around for another generation or so. You never know what 10-year-old kid is watching them today, who will turn out to be a master fly tier and author 30 years from now and will include one of these that we kept alive. You never know. :-)
This fly was sold in many places in the nw during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s and named the Montana buck, and I still have some In my fly box. The Falk was that also saw sold around the nw had a royal coachman body with coarse white deer wing tied caddis Just as you tied your version. Seeing these old patterns turn up is lots of fun, and looking forward to more. Brings back good memories.
Well thank you David; I appreciate the real-world knowledge of this one! Lots of these old classic patterns I only know from books so it's great when someone on here remembers it. Thanks again for the note. Have a great weekend my friend. :-)
Coffee and Savage Flies best way to start the day. Good morning sir Matt. Nice looking fly like the color pattern. Will be tying a few of these to try here in Upstate NY. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
That's a great tie Matt, thanks for sharing your technique & the history of this streamer. Peter Gathercole "The Fly-Tying Bible" ties the Stimulator which looks quite similar to this fly, but has a collar hackle in addition to the wing.
Once again the backstory elevates this video above most of the other channels out there. Kool pattern, too! Thanks Matt, hope you have a great weekend.
Appreciate you saying that Garrett! And yes, it's going to be a great weekend and week for me. One more day of work and then off to the farm for a week off. :-)
Thanks Matt. After watching many of your videos I finally purchased a hair stacker. (I know late to the party) This looks like a fly I could tie. Have a good one Matt!
Well it's about time Todd! Which one did you get? I love the Umpqua one for small batches of hair, but I have to use my old aluminum generic one for big clumps.
Morning Matt! I love that you research and share the histories of the flies you tie. It wood be so cool if our department store still had someone tying flies in them. Not something you see anymore.
I hear you Troy! I miss the old days of these big downtown department stores. Of course they were mostly before my time, but I do remember when you could go to a Sears and they had departments for everything, including outdoors hunting and fishing. I don't suppose those days are ever coming back.
Hi Matt.My trick with floss from changing color when wet is to use white thread under the floss.Got a table full of turkey feathers in the shed.Some on the skin some not with borax on them,will be ready to bag up in a few days.Cool history on this fly.Seen it but never tied it.My naboure says caddis are brown,I caught a green one yesterday to show him.,ha ha ,now he can't aurgue with me.Have a great rest of the week Matt. Ken
Yep, that's a good call Ken. I always remember that after I've tied a few and already recorded a video! Awesome that you've got all those turkey feathers now. Our season here in Maryland opens next week and with any luck I'll get one myself. :-)
Nice fly Matt. Thanks for that one. Hey I passed a sign for the Savage River yesterday and thought of you! Going through Maryland on my way to Arkansas and Louisiana.
That's my water Daryl! I'm heading out to the farm Saturday to spend the week out that way. In between cutting the fields and some turkey hunting, I should find some time to chase some of the big Savage browns. :-)
I'm a history Enthusiast and I just love how you have the history behind each fly. From a beginner standpoint, Inow have depth behind what your tying. So thank you for giving this information and taking the time to find out all the history you can to present it to us! These little facts really make your channel stand out. Hope your days good!
Well thank you for this kind comment Casey! It's a part of the sport I really like. Unfortunately I can't always dig up an interesting history, but I do like it when I can. :-)
I thought it looked more like a stimulator. Either way, this is a surprisingly modern looking fly. Thanks always for the historically significant flies.
I agree Philip, it is very reminiscent of a stimulator. Just doesn't have the big front hackle like the stimulator would. But then again, the EHC doesn't have a tail either. So it's kind of a mix (or a precursor) of a lot of more modern flies.
@@SavageFlies Yeah, exactly. BTW, I liked the technique of bundling the hair with one wrap of thread. I've never seen that before. Of course, now I'll start noticing it everywhere.
I grew up knowing the mier and frank store but only knew of them as clothing stores. Anyhow I have seen the stimulators like that one all around Oregon. Thanks for looking westward for a fly again.
Nice pattern, great tie, awesome story. I got a chuckle out of Randy's comment on the (Peter) Faulk name. That backstory would have Columbo investigating ;o) Yes it looks like an EHC, but also a Sofa Pillow and Stimulator. I don't know the timeline on the other flies but it looks like they all had a common ancestor. Thanks Matt.
Holy cow Joe... I responded to Bob two minutes ago with a note that would have been a better response to your comment here. (I try to read and respond in the order they came in.) Here's what I told him- and spot on to what you were thinking: "Fly history has such a muddled past sometimes. When did Kaufmann come up with his stimulator? I can't recall without looking it up. But I'm betting it was after 1945 when LaFollette came up with this one. And what did the one that he saw Audrey Joy tying look like? Did she come up with the palmered body? Or was that something LaFollette added? We'll probably never know. I'm not sure, but I think a lot of palmered flies like this or the stimulators were inspired by the soldier palmer which has been around for at least 300 years."
@@SavageFlies My lord! My thoughts exactly!!!!! Soldier Palmer was on my mind - Ian Whitelaw's History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies. Wow, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday... Columbo would've figured it out, but more of an X-Files (X-Flyels) case! The truth is out there Matt! 😇👍
@@joeduca8582 Oh yeah! Now I'm about to have to pull an all-nighter to get two videos done for next week while I'm on vacation. Well, not really vacation, but away from the house. 🙂
Cool dry fly! Looks like it could work during the Great hex hatch! The only modification I might incorporate to the fly would be painting the butts with white or neon green glow in the dark paint for early morning or late evening into the night for visibility. The hex hatch is pretty heavy after dark. Just hit the glow in the dark hot spot with white light for 30-45 seconds and you can swing that fly all night with periodic recharges. The hot spot will help you identify takes if you fish after dark. In addition to the elk\deer hair wing butts, it works well on parachute flies as well on top of the post or paint the top of a deer hair body and the post. Thanks for sharing Matt! Cheers!
John- this sounds like an amazing tip! I have never even thought of, or heard of, anyone using glow-in-the-dark paint. I'd bet that fishing a night time hex hatch, the fish are keying way more on the profile than anything else. I'm going to have to research this and give it a try. Thanks for this great comment!
Loving this fly Matt I’ve been practicing with the deer hair that stuff isn’t always easiest to work with but I’m starting to get the hang of of it from watching your videos!!
Well thank you Scott! This kind of comment is what keeps me going. Like tonight... it's 8:30 pm and I need to get a couple of videos ahead so I can go on vacation next week. It would be easy to lay on the couch and watch TV. But no! I'm about to head to the bench and see what I can come up with. :-)
Nice fly Matt. It definitely reminds me of an elk hair cadis. Keep the good stuff coming. P.S. I'll be camping for the next couple of weeks so if I'm not around I didn't die or anything drastic like that.
Nice caddis pattern. I have so many caddis and stimulator patterns that all seem similar I enjoy tying these patterns especially they are either elk hair or deer hair. I am ready to give the tying table a rest. It’s more than time to get out and use them and lose them so I have a I reason to tie more.
I'm with you Ed! I've been tying and making videos like crazy this week so I can take next week off and do some hunting and fishing while out at the farm. :-)
Thank you Matt. Man I like this one. It is a great looking fly for sure. You mentioned buggy about this one. It is, but in a nice classic controlled way. Does that make any sense?😂 I’d love having several of them tied up. The history on this was very interesting. A lot of history for a lot of fly. Once again you have provided us with a great video. Thank you buddy.
I appreciate it Jeff! I wish I had been able to uncover a picture of Audrey Joy, the original lady who inspired Dale LaFollette to come up with this one. But oh well, it's hard to find a lot of history on some of these patterns. Thanks for the note my friend. We'll see you Saturday for the next one. :-)
That’s great looking work. What species of fish would this fly be targeting? Is this more for trout, or would this be effective for sunfish (including bass and bream)?
I think this was mostly tied for trout Mark, and in waters where a caddis or big stonefly might be hatching. But if you fish it in terrestrial season, when grasshoppers are around, you could certainly use it for warmwater fish like bass and panfish. Or in some rivers that are cold part of the year and warm in the summer... these will often have panfish that are familiar with caddis flies as a food source.
@@SavageFlies Thank you. I don’t know what I don’t know. I enjoy your channel and watching these flies being tied, and am reading through Stewart’s “Universal Fly Tying Guide” over this upcoming weekend. I also think it could be useful to find an experienced local guid. Despite an abundance of local streams, creeks, brooks, rivers, ponds, lakes, and waterways, we no longer have any fly fishing shops in my neck of the woods. However, it does look as though there’s a good shop near Asheville, NC - surely they’ll have a line on a good guide.
@@sinelocum Oh yeah Mark, there should be tons of fly shops near Asheville. I've been to the Tuckaseegee shop and maybe the Davidson River one. I've never hired a guide for the area though so can't speak to that. Good luck!
It's hard to say Richard. It could very well be, or the precursor to the Sofa Pillow that might have inspired the Stimulator. Some of us were mentioning in other comments that they all may have been inspired the the Soldier Palmer which is at least 300 years old.
Thanks John! I'll check that email later tonight when I get done tying. I'm trying to get two videos done tonight so I will have some to publish when I'm out of town next week. :-)
Ha! They're sitting on the table right beside my bench. You can actually see it in the videos... it's the one off to my right under my fur/tail wall. Maybe if I could get used to using the gloves, I wouldn't have to clean my fingernails every night before recording a video!
I was getting excited when I saw the title - Falk Fly... I was like cool, Peter Falk and the deer hair is Columbo's rain coat... 🤣 Just one more thing. . . Nice pattern...
Ha! Me too Randy... a.. one more thing.. 😄
Funny Randy! I would not have recognized the name Peter Falk as Columbo. I definitely remember Columbo though. :-)
Again, really appreciate the history you give on these flies. Great how a department store had an in-house fly tier, and someone would come over on lunch to watch.
That is interesting, isn't it? Those days are certainly long gone but it's pretty cool to look back on how the folks who came before us lived. Thanks for the note my friend. :-)
Good morning Matt☕️☕️
An oldie but beautiful, have an amazing day👍
Thank you Jim! Only one more day of work and then a week off at the farm. :-)
Interesting history & nicely tied. Maybe a distant relative to a Stimulator? I’ll bet you could increase the size for when you see stoneflies in the air. If you want the floss to stand out more, you might want to use white thread on the body under the floss, & then switch to black after tying off the floss.
Yep, good call Bob. Ken mentioned the same thing. I always think of those things after I'm done tying or recording. Fly history has such a muddled past sometimes. When did Kaufmann come up with his stimulator? I can't recall without looking it up. But I'm betting it was after 1945 when LaFollette came up with this one. And what did the one that he saw Audrey Joy tying look like? Did she come up with the palmered body? Or was that something LaFollette added? We'll probably never know. I'm not sure, but I think a lot of palmered flies like this or the stimulators were inspired by the soldier palmer which has been around for at least 300 years.
Wonderful job tying this fly Matt. You make working with deer and elk hair look soooo easy. I've added this one to my list of flies I'm tying for my trip to Idaho this July. Thanks to you, I've got all my free time filled up with flies to tie. You're an inspiration. Thanks for your dedication to us newbies.
Wow Don, thanks for this great comment. I certainly appreciate the kind words my friend. Have a great weekend!
Cool looking fly! I shared this with a couple of my FF buddies. We fish the N. Platte in the Platte valley near Saratoga WY. Love old school patterns. One of my favorites is a McGinty! Thank you!!
Another nice one ! Back story of the fly is always interesting. I will be giving this one a try. Thanks Matt ! Everyone stay safe and have a great day!
Thanks Mike! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Good morning Matt. Excellent old fly today. Enjoy the history of these oldies and the neat part is that between appearing in books or here on the channel the story and the fly will be around even longer. Suffering through a bit of cold snap here at the moment. Hasn’t been above freezing for a few days. Southern part of the province is supposed to get heavy snow. Supposed to miss us 😀. Warmer weather is supposedly on its way.
Well I'll keep my fingers crossed that it misses you John. It has been in the low 80s here this week (quite warm). I think spring is officially here... I just took the heaters out of all my rabbit and chicken waterers. :-) And I like your thought that making videos of some of these old semi-forgotten flies will help keep them around for another generation or so. You never know what 10-year-old kid is watching them today, who will turn out to be a master fly tier and author 30 years from now and will include one of these that we kept alive. You never know. :-)
Cool pattern Matt. I can definitely see a hungry trout taking this fly. Thanks for sharing
You bet Layton! It does look like many others out there, but I still like it!
This fly was sold in many places in the nw during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s and named the Montana buck, and I still have some
In my fly box. The Falk was that also saw sold around the nw had a royal coachman body with coarse white deer wing tied caddis
Just as you tied your version. Seeing these old patterns turn up is lots of fun, and looking forward to more. Brings back good memories.
Well thank you David; I appreciate the real-world knowledge of this one! Lots of these old classic patterns I only know from books so it's great when someone on here remembers it. Thanks again for the note. Have a great weekend my friend. :-)
Coffee and Savage Flies best way to start the day. Good morning sir Matt. Nice looking fly like the color pattern. Will be tying a few of these to try here in Upstate NY. Have a great day and stay safe my friend.
Thanks Karl! You too my friend. One more day of work for me and then a week off. :-)
Enjoy your well deserved time off.
Hi from Rolla Missouri 🎣🤠 Dave
Great job 👍 . I'm going to tye this one. Thanks you
That's a great tie Matt, thanks for sharing your technique & the history of this streamer. Peter Gathercole "The Fly-Tying Bible" ties the Stimulator which looks quite similar to this fly, but has a collar hackle in addition to the wing.
Good morning Matt! I really like this pattern and I’m excited to tie some up!! Thank you for sharing.
You bet Barbara! Thanks for watching. :-)
Once again the backstory elevates this video above most of the other channels out there. Kool pattern, too! Thanks Matt, hope you have a great weekend.
Appreciate you saying that Garrett! And yes, it's going to be a great weekend and week for me. One more day of work and then off to the farm for a week off. :-)
@@SavageFlies Lucky you! Be safe & have fun.
Thanks Matt. After watching many of your videos I finally purchased a hair stacker. (I know late to the party) This looks like a fly I could tie. Have a good one Matt!
Well it's about time Todd! Which one did you get? I love the Umpqua one for small batches of hair, but I have to use my old aluminum generic one for big clumps.
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Morning Matt! I love that you research and share the histories of the flies you tie. It wood be so cool if our department store still had someone tying flies in them. Not something you see anymore.
I hear you Troy! I miss the old days of these big downtown department stores. Of course they were mostly before my time, but I do remember when you could go to a Sears and they had departments for everything, including outdoors hunting and fishing. I don't suppose those days are ever coming back.
Thanks for sharing Matt, have a blessed day my friend.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a great weekend my friend. :-)
Very nice looking fly. I, too, like the colors. Look forward to tying several. Thx Matt!
Thanks Clyde! I always appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Great looking bug. Reminds me of the salmon fly hatch that we have mid summer. Be well Matt.
Great call Mark! It would indeed make a great salmon fly imitation.
Hi Matt.My trick with floss from changing color when wet is to use white thread under the floss.Got a table full of turkey feathers in the shed.Some on the skin some not with borax on them,will be ready to bag up in a few days.Cool history on this fly.Seen it but never tied it.My naboure says caddis are brown,I caught a green one yesterday to show him.,ha ha ,now he can't aurgue with me.Have a great rest of the week Matt. Ken
Yep, that's a good call Ken. I always remember that after I've tied a few and already recorded a video! Awesome that you've got all those turkey feathers now. Our season here in Maryland opens next week and with any luck I'll get one myself. :-)
Pretty cool Matt! I like it, it definitely does remind you of an elk hair caddis. I tie a lot of those, there fun to tie. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Jim! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
The fly has really interesting history!! Cool fly, I too like the color scheme!! I’ll say this you do make it look easy!! Thanks for sharing Matt!!
Thanks James! I appreciate the note and the kind words my friend. :-)
Nice pattern.looks great.color pattern is good.it will most definitely catch fish.well done done on another great video Matt! Thanks as always!!
Thanks Mike! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Nice fly Matt. Thanks for that one. Hey I passed a sign for the Savage River yesterday and thought of you! Going through Maryland on my way to Arkansas and Louisiana.
That's my water Daryl! I'm heading out to the farm Saturday to spend the week out that way. In between cutting the fields and some turkey hunting, I should find some time to chase some of the big Savage browns. :-)
Awesome ty Matt, thank you, the golden pheasant tippet really sets it apart.
Thank you as well for the history.
Thanks Monty! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Thank you Sir Matt! This looks like a great fish catcher
I'm a history Enthusiast and I just love how you have the history behind each fly. From a beginner standpoint, Inow have depth behind what your tying. So thank you for giving this information and taking the time to find out all the history you can to present it to us! These little facts really make your channel stand out. Hope your days good!
Well thank you for this kind comment Casey! It's a part of the sport I really like. Unfortunately I can't always dig up an interesting history, but I do like it when I can. :-)
I thought it looked more like a stimulator. Either way, this is a surprisingly modern looking fly. Thanks always for the historically significant flies.
I agree Philip, it is very reminiscent of a stimulator. Just doesn't have the big front hackle like the stimulator would. But then again, the EHC doesn't have a tail either. So it's kind of a mix (or a precursor) of a lot of more modern flies.
@@SavageFlies Yeah, exactly. BTW, I liked the technique of bundling the hair with one wrap of thread. I've never seen that before. Of course, now I'll start noticing it everywhere.
I grew up knowing the mier and frank store but only knew of them as clothing stores. Anyhow I have seen the stimulators like that one all around Oregon. Thanks for looking westward for a fly again.
You bet! Ya'll have got some great patterns out there!!
Nice job Matt I think that’s a cool pattern too
Great video and great story. Thanks Matt.
Thanks Chad! Have a great weekend my friend. :-)
Another cool tie ! The back story is very interesting . I’m going to have to give this pattern a try , Seems beginner friendly ! Thanks for sharing
It is! And the best thing about flies like this... if you mess them up and make them too scruffy, they still work. :-)
@@SavageFlies that’s good to know ! I’ve had my share of mishaps already lol
I need a few of those Matt, thanks for sharing that video !
I like this one Matt!
Thank you Matt really enjoyed this look forward to it every week
Thanks Marty! I always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Cool looking fly Matt
Looks easy, going to try this one out
Thanks for the video
Thanks Dave! Always appreciate it my friend. :-)
Pretty cool fly thanks Matt
I really enjoy your work. 😁
Thank you Jon! I appreciate the note my friend.
digging this one to matt thanks. have a awesome weekend man. see ya joe.
Thanks Joe! Always appreciate it my friend. :-)
thank you for explaining why you start wraps from the front or back
You're welcome John! Thanks for watching my friend. :-)
Nice pattern, great tie, awesome story. I got a chuckle out of Randy's comment on the (Peter) Faulk name. That backstory would have Columbo investigating ;o) Yes it looks like an EHC, but also a Sofa Pillow and Stimulator. I don't know the timeline on the other flies but it looks like they all had a common ancestor. Thanks Matt.
Holy cow Joe... I responded to Bob two minutes ago with a note that would have been a better response to your comment here. (I try to read and respond in the order they came in.) Here's what I told him- and spot on to what you were thinking: "Fly history has such a muddled past sometimes. When did Kaufmann come up with his stimulator? I can't recall without looking it up. But I'm betting it was after 1945 when LaFollette came up with this one. And what did the one that he saw Audrey Joy tying look like? Did she come up with the palmered body? Or was that something LaFollette added? We'll probably never know. I'm not sure, but I think a lot of palmered flies like this or the stimulators were inspired by the soldier palmer which has been around for at least 300 years."
@@SavageFlies My lord! My thoughts exactly!!!!! Soldier Palmer was on my mind - Ian Whitelaw's History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies. Wow, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday... Columbo would've figured it out, but more of an X-Files (X-Flyels) case! The truth is out there Matt! 😇👍
@@joeduca8582 Oh yeah! Now I'm about to have to pull an all-nighter to get two videos done for next week while I'm on vacation. Well, not really vacation, but away from the house. 🙂
@@SavageFlies 👍Have fun, bring some Easter eggs ;o)
Reminds me of a stimulator and an emerger had a baby
Ha! It does look a little like that. Thanks for watching Sam. :-)
Cool dry fly! Looks like it could work during the Great hex hatch! The only modification I might incorporate to the fly would be painting the butts with white or neon green glow in the dark paint for early morning or late evening into the night for visibility. The hex hatch is pretty heavy after dark. Just hit the glow in the dark hot spot with white light for 30-45 seconds and you can swing that fly all night with periodic recharges. The hot spot will help you identify takes if you fish after dark. In addition to the elk\deer hair wing butts, it works well on parachute flies as well on top of the post or paint the top of a deer hair body and the post. Thanks for sharing Matt! Cheers!
John- this sounds like an amazing tip! I have never even thought of, or heard of, anyone using glow-in-the-dark paint. I'd bet that fishing a night time hex hatch, the fish are keying way more on the profile than anything else. I'm going to have to research this and give it a try. Thanks for this great comment!
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Nice pattern Matt!
Thanks Alex! I always appreciate you watching my friend. :-)
Loving this fly Matt I’ve been practicing with the deer hair that stuff isn’t always easiest to work with but I’m starting to get the hang of of it from watching your videos!!
Well thank you Scott! This kind of comment is what keeps me going. Like tonight... it's 8:30 pm and I need to get a couple of videos ahead so I can go on vacation next week. It would be easy to lay on the couch and watch TV. But no! I'm about to head to the bench and see what I can come up with. :-)
Nice fly Matt. It definitely reminds me of an elk hair cadis. Keep the good stuff coming. P.S. I'll be camping for the next couple of weeks so if I'm not around I didn't die or anything drastic like that.
Good to know… seriously! If I didn’t see you on here I’d get worried. 👍
Nice caddis pattern. I have so many caddis and stimulator patterns that all seem similar I enjoy tying these patterns especially they are either elk hair or deer hair. I am ready to give the tying table a rest. It’s more than time to get out and use them and lose them so I have a I reason to tie more.
I'm with you Ed! I've been tying and making videos like crazy this week so I can take next week off and do some hunting and fishing while out at the farm. :-)
Thank you Matt. Man I like this one. It is a great looking fly for sure. You mentioned buggy about this one. It is, but in a nice classic controlled way. Does that make any sense?😂
I’d love having several of them tied up. The history on this was very interesting. A lot of history for a lot of fly. Once again you have provided us with a great video. Thank you buddy.
I appreciate it Jeff! I wish I had been able to uncover a picture of Audrey Joy, the original lady who inspired Dale LaFollette to come up with this one. But oh well, it's hard to find a lot of history on some of these patterns. Thanks for the note my friend. We'll see you Saturday for the next one. :-)
Matt, thank you for another great tying video. I love the elegant technique for the golden pheasant tail. Who was Leo Falk?
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That’s great looking work. What species of fish would this fly be targeting? Is this more for trout, or would this be effective for sunfish (including bass and bream)?
I think this was mostly tied for trout Mark, and in waters where a caddis or big stonefly might be hatching. But if you fish it in terrestrial season, when grasshoppers are around, you could certainly use it for warmwater fish like bass and panfish. Or in some rivers that are cold part of the year and warm in the summer... these will often have panfish that are familiar with caddis flies as a food source.
@@SavageFlies Thank you. I don’t know what I don’t know. I enjoy your channel and watching these flies being tied, and am reading through Stewart’s “Universal Fly Tying Guide” over this upcoming weekend. I also think it could be useful to find an experienced local guid. Despite an abundance of local streams, creeks, brooks, rivers, ponds, lakes, and waterways, we no longer have any fly fishing shops in my neck of the woods. However, it does look as though there’s a good shop near Asheville, NC - surely they’ll have a line on a good guide.
@@sinelocum Oh yeah Mark, there should be tons of fly shops near Asheville. I've been to the Tuckaseegee shop and maybe the Davidson River one. I've never hired a guide for the area though so can't speak to that. Good luck!
Is this the fore runner of the stimulator pattern
It's hard to say Richard. It could very well be, or the precursor to the Sofa Pillow that might have inspired the Stimulator. Some of us were mentioning in other comments that they all may have been inspired the the Soldier Palmer which is at least 300 years old.
It's got GPT tailing so it has to be a good one.
No doubt Jim. :-)
Matt, I sent you some pictures tonight.
Thanks John! I'll check that email later tonight when I get done tying. I'm trying to get two videos done tonight so I will have some to publish when I'm out of town next week. :-)
Great fly, maybe one day you will get to use those silk gloves so you don't shred the silk.... lol...jk
Love your work👍👍
Ha! They're sitting on the table right beside my bench. You can actually see it in the videos... it's the one off to my right under my fur/tail wall. Maybe if I could get used to using the gloves, I wouldn't have to clean my fingernails every night before recording a video!