I’m happy to see that you are posting videos again. I stopped tying about 6 years ago whe I became unable to fish ( back issues). A year & a half ago, I found out an organization called Healing Waters welcomed donations of flies. I really missed tying & decided to get back into tying, so my flies would have a useful purpose. Since then I have been using your videos & those of several other tyers to bring back memories of forgotten skill & to learn new ones. Thank you for your posts. Thank you also for preserving your 365 & the Raske streamer site through GFF. I was a friend of Mike Martinek & member of United Fly Tyers, & I think it’s important that the records of his & Don Bastian’s work be preserved. Your efforts & Martin’s at GFF have made that happen. I have little experience Perdigons or with pond fishing. My Healing Waters group is based on a pond. Since I can’t test the flies myself, I’m hoping you could recommend what weights on a Perdigon you would recommend for pond fishing. I’m used to chuck & duck, heavy Clousers in salt or heavy nymphs in fast rivers, but I’m assuming fairly novice fly fishers might have trouble casting heavily weighted flies & that heavy Perdigons might not be needed in a pond.
It's really nice to hear from you. All of the credit for preserving S365 goes to Martin. He really knows his stuff and I'm very happy that it landed there. I didn't know Mike too well, but we did talk hockey over the phone on occasion. I've got a few of his flies and both his books in my collection. I'm really glad that both Don and Mike were able to share a bit for the project. I think these Perdigons should work well on a trout pond. I'd likely be trying to fish them either by casting out with slow retrieve using lighter flies (#14/16 w/ 3.0mm) or under a teardrop foam strike indicator with long leader chironomid style if that makes sense (ala Brian Chan / Phil Rowley). Cheers!
I got so excited when I saw you posted something new. We missed your videos and hope you plan on posting more. Hope all is well with you and you family. Cheers Darren !
Good afternoon Darren, as Mr. Graves stated Nice one!!! Also great to see you posting. Have a great day and Cheers! Going to try this with black and chartreuse wire.
Just looking back at the last time I uploaded a fly, it's been almost a year. I hope that you like the fly and have a chance to try it out. Let me know what color wire you'll be tying with. Cheers
Holy chimo Darren! Only a minute eh? Very happy when I saw the notification, you haven't loss your touch. Copper & black is good, brown & yellow would be great too. If color makes a difference, I've had good results with brown or yellow in the mix for warm water fish. Gee it's good to see a video from the "capo di tutti capi". I hope it's not a "minute" before the next. :o) Thanks man!
Chimo Joe! Brown and yellow sounds great! I'm getting ready for the spring and getting in a few flies for my own boxes now. Hopefully my "Boss" doesn't mind me being out on the river more this year. I got a lot of testing to take care of lol. Good to hear from you Joe. Cheers
I’m happy to see that you are posting videos again. I stopped tying about 6 years ago whe I became unable to fish ( back issues). A year & a half ago, I found out an organization called Healing Waters welcomed donations of flies. I really missed tying & decided to get back into tying, so my flies would have a useful purpose. Since then I have been using your videos & those of several other tyers to bring back memories of forgotten skill & to learn new ones. Thank you for your posts. Thank you also for preserving your 365 & the Raske streamer site through GFF. I was a friend of Mike Martinek & member of United Fly Tyers, & I think it’s important that the records of his & Don Bastian’s work be preserved. Your efforts & Martin’s at GFF have made that happen.
I have little experience Perdigons or with pond fishing. My Healing Waters group is based on a pond. Since I can’t test the flies myself, I’m hoping you could recommend what weights on a Perdigon you would recommend for pond fishing. I’m used to chuck & duck, heavy Clousers in salt or heavy nymphs in fast rivers, but I’m assuming fairly novice fly fishers might have trouble casting heavily weighted flies & that heavy Perdigons might not be needed in a pond.
It's really nice to hear from you. All of the credit for preserving S365 goes to Martin. He really knows his stuff and I'm very happy that it landed there. I didn't know Mike too well, but we did talk hockey over the phone on occasion. I've got a few of his flies and both his books in my collection. I'm really glad that both Don and Mike were able to share a bit for the project.
I think these Perdigons should work well on a trout pond. I'd likely be trying to fish them either by casting out with slow retrieve using lighter flies (#14/16 w/ 3.0mm) or under a teardrop foam strike indicator with long leader chironomid style if that makes sense (ala Brian Chan / Phil Rowley).
Cheers!
Great to see you behind the bench again! Always like your tutorials, nice fly going to have to add a few to the box. Thanks for sharing Darren 👍.
Hardy, nice to hear from you. Hope all is well out east! Cheers
Nice one 👍
Thanks Hughie!
I got so excited when I saw you posted something new. We missed your videos and hope you plan on posting more. Hope all is well with you and you family. Cheers Darren !
Thanks for dropping by Brian McDonald, It's great to hear from you, hopefully I get more time to do videos soon. Cheers
Good afternoon Darren, as Mr. Graves stated Nice one!!! Also great to see you posting. Have a great day and Cheers! Going to try this with black and chartreuse wire.
Hi Steve! Ya, that'll be a good color combo too. Cheers!
Glad to see you back again hope all is well
Thanks for dropping by Roy, It's great to hear from you, Cheers
Just looking back at the last time I uploaded a fly, it's been almost a year. I hope that you like the fly and have a chance to try it out. Let me know what color wire you'll be tying with. Cheers
Been along time been a long lonely lonely lonely time!
Hehe gonna go give that listen.... Cheers and thanks for stopping by.
Great to have another video. Hope all is well
Thank you Tim, much appreciated, Cheers, see you in the next video.
Holy chimo Darren! Only a minute eh? Very happy when I saw the notification, you haven't loss your touch. Copper & black is good, brown & yellow would be great too. If color makes a difference, I've had good results with brown or yellow in the mix for warm water fish. Gee it's good to see a video from the "capo di tutti capi". I hope it's not a "minute" before the next. :o) Thanks man!
Chimo Joe! Brown and yellow sounds great! I'm getting ready for the spring and getting in a few flies for my own boxes now. Hopefully my "Boss" doesn't mind me being out on the river more this year. I got a lot of testing to take care of lol. Good to hear from you Joe. Cheers
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Nice ....thanks Darren...still fishing nether gasolina! 👍🏽👍🏽....cheers, Michael
Nice one Darren! Welcome back eh!
Thanks for dropping by Hank, I hope you're getting ready for the season. Rivers open up soon, Cheers
Nice video