Tying The Troutsman Hex with Kelly Galloup
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 เม.ย. 2018
- Watch Kelly tie the Troutsman Hex, which was his first commercial pattern back in the 70's.
Thread: Yellow GSP 75
Hook: Dai-Riki 710 #6 - www.slideinn.com/product/dai-...
Tail: Natural Moose Body Hair
Underbody: Yellow Bucktail - www.slideinn.com/product/natu...
Body: Natural Deer Hair - www.slideinn.com/product/natu...
Wing: White Calf Tail - www.slideinn.com/product/calf...
Hackle: 1 Grizzly and 1 Coachman Brown Neck Hackle - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Thanks for the excellent videos-I too just started tying this past year at 50 years old.
Grew up in Northern WI and started fishing the hex hatch with my dad when I was 11 years old.
He past away at 86 this past year and now it's my turn to carry the torch.
Great Michigan fly still found in every fly shop and many fly boxes. Thanks for all the inside steps to make a good looking bug. Tight Lines!!
Great explanation, history and a really nice fly!! Thank you sharing with us.
hey thanks for the video. its amazing you do these for free. I've learned a ton watching your videos. I'm a big fan of the indepth explanations.
Bring back a lot of great memories of the Troutsman and the hex hatch.
I was wading the bois brule river in northern wisc for the mid july lake run of browns. had a kayak come by and tell me if your not fishing a hex right now your not going to catch them. he stopped and showed me a hex pattern and told me one or two fish and its done need to tie a new one. i knew kelly would have a better pattern.
Thanks, Kelly. A real blast from the past, still the only hex pattern I tie.
I am here just to keep you past blasted, hope all is well. KG
Just fished the hex hatch on ausable for the first time and this fly slayed. Got my first 20" fish on a dry. Thanks.
A 2 toned fly! You are freaking awesome man! It is unbelievable how much I have learned from your videos! Thank you sir!
Great job. Didn’t think I’d be able to handle 30 minutes of Flytying Instruction. But you have so much knowledge you share throughout your tying I made it through the whole video. Plan on tying my first hex fly surprisingly have most of the materials on hand. Love to fish with you someday
As always, outstanding tying video. Thanks for posting.
I’m going to be 54 years old This Year if The Lord is willing . I want to learn more about tying flies and catch some Big Sunfish. We also have some Big Kentucky Spotted Bass around 1 to 4 pounds easy in these clear water lakes in Kentucky. Thanks for your videos.
I've been waiting for this.....thanks! I've learned so much from you.
When Kelly sits down at the barber he says, give me the John Gruden
Fantastic pattern and great tip for the hackle tie ins regarding the spring back on the stem
Kelly, fished the Hex hatch for my first time just 2 days ago. Caught my biggest brown to date (Stocky 24in). Watched a couple films where you talk about just how huge a hex hatch is and how Michigan is such a big fish factory. I think it's rad that you live in Montana, what many (like myself) consider to be a trout mecca, yet you still have a love and admiration for the Michigan trout game. Tight Lines! Thanks for passing on all your knowledge!
Same here i have learned a ton mostly because of the Extremely good explaination
And the videos are the best thank a bunch from Norway Kelly
Thank you!👍🏼
Pretty neet! Will have to give that one a try.
Artist!
Beautiful Vid! Have you ever tried tube flies? Would be wonderful to see the old classics modernized.
wow! nice fly! do you plan on doing a video about waders ? greetings from Switzerland
Great tutorial Kelly, more than just how to tie a fly. Even though you said pull the wings down and to the sides for a spinner, I'd still like to know your spinner recipe and procedure. Any sbs available? The Troutsmans Hex is still in some catalogs, they just call it adult hex, but it looks the same to me. Thanks for all you've done and continue to do for the sport 👍
Joe Duca, I agree. Kelly does a great job. I too would love to see the spent wing version tied by Kelly. We fish the spinner here in Traverse City, and you can tie wings in a million variations, but I’d be interested to see the way Kelly did it.
Nice!
I absolutely love your channel Kelly and your no-nonsense instruction. I’m fairly new to fly fishing, can you do some videos on how you set up your line, reels and rods? What knots you prefer and what you like and don’t like? Thank you!
That is still a great pattern. I haven’t fished the hex hatch in years. The last time I did my buddy hooked a bat while casting. It took about 15 minutes to get the bat close enough to cit the tippet. The bat got to keep the fly. The bat flew away, and probably didn’t survive the encounter. It was funny watching him fight a bat in the air, it took both of us to release the bat without getting bit.
How do you see the take at night? Need a crash course on that.
In northern Michigan, these things hatch around the solstace so it doesn't get black dark until midnight or later. Your eyes have plenty of time to adjust
and you'll be amazed at how well you can see. Plus you want to be as close to the target fish as possible. There are thousands of flies on the water so you have to keep
pounding away until you get a take. Pays to keep the cast short.
I make these flies with softer transparent floating materials such as CDC. But even there, one gets to 'mix' up an awful lot of things, furs, hackles deer hairs. What I actually do is chop up deer hair and mix it up with CDC dubbing, furs with some transulency to it, and effectively make a 'deer hair' composite dubbing material. I borrowed that technique really from the underwater fisherman who do use deer hair as a dubbing material for their deep subsurface patterns. It works on surface floating flies too though. It works very well. One can mix up over fifty percent CDC dubbing, and maybe twenty five percent hairs ear with another twenty five percent deer hair strands, with tiny amounts of synthetic flash fur in it, and make some very useful body dubbings that way.
What I've been doing with all of these flies though, and I've mentioned it to Kelly previously. I'll spend a bit of time, and break that long 3X shank hook in half - and fix it again using a few strands of extra strong poly-carbonate leader material. In that way, I achieve a large dry fly that bends in the middle. I call that the 'crumple zone', like how automobiles are designed so that when they get ambushed by a predatory fish, they collapse when taken. That enables one to strike using fly rod then, without large hooks causing all usual problems of pulling fly out of mouth. Also, with the flexible joint in the middle of the 3X hook, you can turn it into a 4X or 5X hook, and not suffer the consequences of a ridiculously long dry fly hook shank.
When using softer, buoyant material (everything is designed with 'collapse-ability' and 'crumple-ability' intentionally in mind), one can get away with a hook size smaller. In other words, instead of needing a size four hook to make a big fly - I can just use a smaller, sharper size six and make the shank longer and flexible using the flexible joint in middle. What one has to realize with these kinds of takes, that the fish has already collected the target fly, done a full one-eighty degree turn and has head back into the depths again, in split second. And that's typically around the time, the angler's brain is able to wake up enough, to actually do anything. And that's when one is looking and actually sees what happens, when it happens. With the collapse-ability built into design, it buys one back a quarter of a fraction of a second more. It gives the illusion that the angler is faster able to react than he actually is.
Fish generally react to tactile things too, as well as light, color etc. A fish who takes a size four natural insect, doesn't expect it to have a straight steel pin, running down length of it's abdomen. That's true of migratory species at least, who generally are used to consumption of the large invertebrates etc they come across in ocean feeding currents. Even things like shell backed crustaceans, have a bit of flexibility built into them as animals. Nothing in real life has steel pins inserted into it. A good way to dress Klinkhammer type suface patterns too, is only to use one small fly where the hook eye normally is located on the Klinkhammer, and just use a loop of nylon leader to create the length of the body and dress the fly on a few strands of nylon leader. Just eliminate the steel out of the equation altogether. What you do then is attach a 5X or 6X leader to the nylon loop underneath the Klinkhammer dry pattern, to where the 'hook point' would normally be hanging down. Again, using CDC's and such, the small hook up top does it's job as normal, and when fish takes its a small hook one is working with.
I wouldn't mind tying this Troutsman Hex 'back to front' too, with just one small hook at the front where the head is tied off, and dress the main body of the fly on top of a few nylon loops extending out to the rear (where one would tie on a 5X leader tippet). So in other words, the leader tippet would be tied on where the tail is, instead of where the eye is. When floating on the water too, the dry fly is fishing back to front, so the tail part of the fly is always facing the angler, and the hackle and wings are pointed away from the angler. It means that the 'cast' finishes out neatly on these larger patterns too, because what little weight is in the pattern is located at the extreme end of the fly line and leader, at the very end. Then the fly won't come down with such a huge splash, and one can get quite handy with things like parachute casts. Often the trout come up and take it the instance, or slightly before it lands, because their actually scanning the 'air space' several inches above the water surface for spinners and such that are circling the runway up there.
Hey Kelly it's Joey Cucco. How've you been? Bruening and I were watching this video and it brings back good memories from the Boardman. Can you do a video on tying a mouse?
Joey, good to hear from you say hi to Bruening for me. I am not sure if I will get to the mouse but who knows? KG
Could you cram these materials on a size 10 for a drake?
This looks a lot like the humpy
Hey Kelly! Nice video. There are two hex patterns I fish. This one and Jerry Regan's. Question: What is that rubber band thing on your vise for?
Hey Deb, I like Jerry's pattern as well. The Rubber band is a tension band for articulated hooks so I can hook it in the band and slide the material clip back and keep the fly tight. Thanks for watching, Kelly
Great idea (rubber band). I'm going to use it!!
Now that is one Sexy Fly.
Good instruction, but painfully slow. I did some ff.