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At East Rosebud Fly and Tackle with John Wood as he ties Gary LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa
Hook: Standard dry, size 14-20.
Thread: Brown, 10/0 Veevus.
Shuck: Burnt orange, Wapsi Antron yarn.
Abdomen: 50/50 mix of bright green Antron dubbing and insect green rabbit.
Wing: Dark colored deer body hair.
Head: Dark hare's mask dubbing.
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We are at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in Billings, Montana with Thread Shredder Daryl Rose. Daryl will be tying a Trout Style Dalai Lama.
Recipe:
Hooks: Ahrex Stinger Hook Size 4 / Umpqua U Series Size 6 Donor Hook
Thread: Veevus 8/0 Red
Beads: D & D Dirty Dumbbells Cone Head Red Small
Body: Rainbow Flashabou
Lateral Lines: Rainbow Flashabou
Top: Natural Micro Rabbit Strip
Belly: White Micro Rabbit Strip
Head: Blend of Ice Dub & Natural Rabbit in a Composite Loop
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Green Butt Skunk
Hook: Tiemco TMC7999, size 8-1.
Thread: Black 6/0.
Tail: Red neck hackle barbs.
Butt: Fluorescent green medium chenille.
Rib: Silver medium oval tinsel.
Body: Black medium chenille.
Throat: Black neck hackle.
Wing: White calf tail.
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Tying a Balanced Leech
Balanced Leech
Hook: Umpqua U555 Jig, size 12.
Thread: Rusty brown, 6/0 Uni Thread.
Pin: Hareline Balanced Fly Pin or sewing pin.
Beads: Two copper. one 2.8mm tungsten, one 3.2mm brass.
Tail: Brown marabou barbs.
Rib: Small copper wire.
Body: Root beer, Medium Cactus Chenille.
Hackle: Dark ginger or brown rooster neck hackle.
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. Alright, here we are today at East rose, but fly and tackle sitting here with the infamous thread reader, John Wood and John's going to be tying a balance each for us today, so sit at your vice kickback grabber a beer or whatever, cup of coffee or tea and tie along.
Take It away John, hey, this is John Wood, and I am coming to you from East Rosebud fly and tackle in Billings, Montana. In this video I'm gonna tie for you fly known as the balanced Leach, and this is a version that was taught to me by a good friend of mine from Colorado, Justin Brenner. Now, the balance Leech was actually originated by Jerry McBride of Spokane, Washington around 2005. And it's a great fly, and if anybody that's fish with me can tell you that I am not a big fly fisherman, I like small flies, I like things that are easy to cast, dry flies, small nymphs, this thing here kinda cast like a cowboy hat, but it's worth the effort, when fished the way it's intended to be, it's fish to under an indicator, and that's one of the reason that makes it so hard to cast. And we'll talk about that as we go along. I wanna show you the materials we're using, we're gonna be tying this on the... I get that nowhere. You can see the numbers, the U555 Jig hook in size 12, the threat I'm using for this brand, and one version is the rusty Brown Uni 6/0, and you can see it's a burnt orange color as opposed to UTC Rusty Brown, which is more actually brown.
To put the beads out front of the hook eye, we're gonna use a straight pin, you can use these specialty pins, or this may be the one case where it's okay to raid the household sewing kit and wrap some pins from your wife. The beads will be, I like to put the point bead is a little bit smaller, a tungsten out front, 'cause that's where you want most of the weight to create the balance, and then I use a brass bed for the bigger one, which is the second one, and this is a 1/8 or... What is that? 3.2 millimeter and the front one is a 2.8 millimeter, then the tail is gonna be just brown Marabou, we're gonna use a small tuff, you can see it's not real thick, it's just a little bit, the body itself is medium cactus chenille in root beer, the wire rib will be a small copper, the hackle I'm gonna use a dark ginger neck hackle, and then the collar up front, which creates a lot of flash is orange ice dub. So let's get cracking. Alright, so we're gonna start with putting this hook in vice, and I'm gonna go ahead and trim my pin and get the beads loaded up, these pins come a little bit long, just so you'll know, having a hard time picking that one it up...
This is actually a sewing pin, like I said, this is the one time when it may be okay to rate your wife's so and kit, so I'm gonna make this the link of the shank, 'cause I want it to be... Fall right in through here. Around the point, once I've got the beads on, but I don't want it so short, but I have trouble getting it to load onto the hook and be secured. So this is gonna be a little tricky. It's gonna be about right there. So that's the length I'm looking for. If it's a little longer, that's okay too, which that's pre-loaded on it is a tad longer, actually a little bit long for me, let's get our thread started... Get going. Now I'm gonna start the thread right at that bend and go all the way back to the hook bend, and you can see that's kind of a rough surface, I don't want that thread base really super smooth because the regret is the better it will hold that pin I found... Bring my thread up there, let it rest. Now, for positioning, I want all the weight of these beads in front of the front of the eye of the hook, and that's what's gonna help it balance in the water, you put that on an open loop under an indicator and just kind of let it hang and it will...
There's any wave action or anything like that it will Bob... And that tail is gonna kind of wag in the water column and it acts like an attractor. So to be honest, this is kind of a suspended Wooly bugger, especially this version. So we're gonna tie this just like we would a wooly bugger, I'm gonna take a bunch of these barbs off of my marabou quill, I want the tail to be pretty fluffy near the end, so I'm gonna come back here and I'm gonna pinch off the tips of those and then measure this and I want the length to be from the head of the pin to the back of the end of the hook, but it's not critical, it doesn't have to be exact, but I'd like to have it fairly close. Now, as I wrap this thing, one thing I forgot to mention as I did, it was avoiding the end of that cut pin unless you de-bur it, 'cause it will chop your thread, and you notice now that I put the marabou butts over the end of that pin and that'll help keep it from cutting my thread as I wrap over that section of the fly.
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Daryl Rose demonstrates how to tie a Montana Prom-Dress Intruder, at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in Billings, Montana.
Gamakatsu Octopus Hook - Size #6 (Stinger)
Umpqua U-Series Down Eye Streamer Hook Size 6 (Doner Hook)
30lb Spider Wire or equivalent
Gold Flashabou or Gold Crinkle Flash - Top 70%
Silver or Holoflash Flashabou - Bottom 30%
Large Bead Chain Eyes
1.5 Senyo Chromatic Brush - 3-5 wraps for Prop
Ice Dub UV Hot Orange or any color for Hotspot Dubbing Ball
Senyo's Lazer Dub - Silver Minnow Bellow for Head.
Start tying yours today. Just love streamer fishing.
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Live from East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in Billings Montana with John Wood. John will by tying a English Loch Fly / Ginger Mayfly
Ginger Mayfly
Hook: Standard dry, size 10-18.
Thread: Black 10/0 Veevus.
Tail: Yellow dyed gray squirrel tail.
Abdomen: Ginger angora goat.
Wing: Golden olive fox tail.
Hackle: March brown dyed Braham hen.
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John Wood ties and talks about the proper way to tie a Clouser Minnow from East Rosebud Fly & Tackle in Billings Montana
Clouser
Hook: Umpqua XS420, size 2.
Thread: Red, 6/0 Uni Thread.
Eyes: Copper, medium brass dumbell.
Belly: White bucktail.
Flash: Olive pearl Krystal Flash.
Back: Light olive bucktail.
Peace, Love & Fly Fishing
HECK YES!!!
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Sitting down with John Wood as he ties his variation of Charlie Craven's Gonga at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in Billings, Montana. John's version is for catching Redfish.
Redfish Gonga
Hook: Umpqua XS420, size 1.
Thread: Rusty brown, 6/0 Uni Thread.
Eyes: Yellow painted medium lead dumbell.
Tail: Tan/black Mini Barred Buggerbou.
Tail flash: Bonefish tan Krystal Flash.
Hackle: White schlappen.
Body: Root Beer medium Cactus chenille.
Legs: Sand/orange tip, Barred Fire Tip Sili Legs.
Wing: Orangutan Orange Pseudo Hair.
Head: Orangutan Orange Pseudo Hair.
Peace, Love & Fly Fishing
HECK YES!!! / John Wood
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Fly Tying Recipe for a Purple Cripple
HooK: Ahrex 503 #14 Light Dry Fly Barbless
Thread: Red 8/0 Veevus
Tail: Whiting Farms Euro Tail Pak Purple
Body: Turkey Biot
Throax: Purple Ice Dub / Hareline
Wing: CDC Natures Spirit
Hackle: Purple High and Dry / Whiting Farms
Vise: Regal
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