Mike Sewards - Hackle Tip Steelhead Spey Flies

Good friend of the shop and fly tying extraordinaire Mike Sewards talks to the fine points of tying hackle tip style northwest steelhead flies (which, for the record, fish great locally). All materials listed below and available online or in shop!
Thunder & Lightning
Daiichi Alec Jackson #1.5 (or similar)
black floss
flat medium silver tinsel
medium oval silver tinsel
bright orange or sunrise schlappen
blue guinea
black heron hackle or black schlappen
black hackle tips (from a rooster neck)
10/0 black veevus thread
tying wax (not dubbing wax)
Mahoney
tying wax (not dubbing wax)
Daiichi Alec Jackson #1.5 (or similar)
hot red floss
rod red dubbing (seal or sub)
medium silver oval tinsel
pearl mylar med or large tinsel
long black schlappen
hot red schlappen
rod red guinea
hot red hackle tips (from a rooster neck)
10/0 red veevus thread
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[@jameshoyson]

Thank you for producing this video! FINALLY I can set hackle tip wings properly!

[@thejazzykatty]

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