Carp Fly Videos
- My version of the Clouser Swimming Nymph. This fly I have found is best tied in either rust or a dark brown.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNIslStkAdA[/youtube]
- A simple carp fly that I use on lakes and smaller ponds for when the fish want something that is just a little less obnoxious. Some of the local ponds around here fish really well but the fish can be very spooky to splashes. This has a very small splash and I have found it deadly in rust and yellow.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2xPUtY1D3s[/youtube]
- The ole’ carp worm. Nothing more simple. Nothing more deadly. Great pattern all over the place, especially in the winter.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hRJ5IuXjAg[/youtube]
- I call this the Mello Yellow, this is my favorite Platte River fly. This fly, more so than the others I have listed, has destroyed fish for me. Again, rust and yellow are my favorite and sometimes I even throw in an olive, but not usually.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvL7uXcKXEg[/youtube]
Trout Flies
- John Barr’s Bouface streamer. This is a great streamer that is light and has a really slimp profile. It is a killer lake streamer and is deadly behind another streamer in faster currents. I like these in olive, black, white, crayfish orange, and chartreuse.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKhSq0CMJ4[/youtube]
Comments
Nate,
Go to http://www.OregonFlyFishingBlog.com and see Jay Nicholas show it using shlappen. I do it slightly differently, but it’s the same essentially.
Gregg
No, I don’t. It was explained well in print for me in many books I bought as I learned to tie traditional spey flies. My sister in law’s neurosurgeon when she was battling cancer fly fished steelhead big time. So rather than tie an egg sucking this or that I sought nicer more traditional flies for him. Really got into it. I can describe it. The feather is tied in by the tip. Hold the butt with hackle pliers and gently pull the tip toward you and make the feather tight. With a pair of scissors stroke the far, or opposite, side of the stem beginning at the tie in point. You will feel the blade, (use an open single blade,) bump over the barbules of the feather, it’s cool! The feather will fold as you procede. It is easy to let it slide to your side and the feather will become askew, so just note that. I then pinch the feather further and then wrap it as normal. It is used for collars as well like yours and I can do this with tiny covert feathers on trout soft hackles and even philoplume as well. As well as the fluff on the base as with your “Yellow Mellow”.
I’ll try to find a link for you, but this rocks!
Gregg
Nice fly! Have you ever tried folding the hackle by using the scissor method as with folding schlappen for spey flies? Yellow is the most favored color by me for our carp.
Gregg
Author
I haven’t tried that but I certainly will now. Yellow is the best.
Author
Gregg, you know a good youtube video of folding the hackle with the scissors? I think I need to look more into that. Thanks man.