Designed to Deceive: AK Best Tying the Winged Beetle

[@kerrypitt9789]

I was fortunate enough to meet AK and Tie Flies with him one afternoon. He showed us some of the tricks he used to tie patterns a bit faster and to be more attractive. He is the kind of person I would like to be as I age through fly tying.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

An absolute master tier. Thanks for sharing! Wish there was more of AK, and Gierach, on TH-cam...

[@EbersoleMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chslyngstad]

I feel like I'm watching an artist. This fly, as simple of a tie as it may seem, is so lifelike and so wonderfully tied. I sure appreciated this video.

[@bryanandrews2433]

I was fortunate enough to meet and learn from A K years ago at the old Hunters Fly Shop in New Boston NH. What a great experience!

[@jamesshaeffer-nv4kq]

I still think of A K when I read John Gierach.

[@holdemhigh7738]

he has so much pride, yet is so humble about his work it's hard not to just smile through the whole video.

[@whitechin99]

The winged beetle, AK the master tier. "I'm old enough now to know..............", AK the philosopher.

[@parfield5182]

I am fresh from breaking a bit of a lean spell with this pattern...thank you!.

[@EbersoleMedia]

Great!

[@lovetheoutdoors9485]

Funny. I've never seen this video and I just happened to tie the exact fly pattern, But with brown hackle and grizzly hackle for the wing. Can't wait to swing it.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

I wonder if AK is the very last commercial fly tier in America?

[@ghart91]

Great fly. Can I get onto another subject? With all the dubbing you have collected, how and what do you use to store and organize it in? My plastic bin turns into a jumbled pile.

[@williamkaylor1191]

It would be an honor to fish with AK

[@normanschillerstrom1226]

Nice fly Archie

[@fakiirification]

As a saltwater fisherman: 27 inches is big? I throw those back! lol! tight lines brother!