Ya unfortunately alot of the classic fly tying books are really expensive now, I picked em up back in the day.

The magnet has a chip in it from dropping the head back in the day, this vice head has seen better days. You can see the wear from my hand on the top, wore threw the power coat on top haha

It definitely would, I've used surf candies for years as fluke teasers so no reason these wouldn't work.

What weight rod are you using. For larger flies on my 9 or 10 wt rod and intermediate or sinking line I make a simple leader. 30,40 or 50 lb section about 4-5' long with a double surgeons loop to the fly line, then blood knot to blood knot to 20 lb fluro about 3-4' long If you fishing big flies like beasts and slammers, you can just use a straight piece of 40 or 50 about 5-6 long

Nice must be Icelandic sheep.

Oh very nice, I've head great things about crystal river

I do save what's not used, I take the usable materials from my little fly tying waste basket attached to the vice and use it for what we call garbage flies. Where i take the scraps and tie something with it as to not waste anything. Obviously not everything can be use, like off cuts of bucktail etc, but the synthetic material you can use.

The name of the material is Sf blend or Steve Farrar blend, essentially slinky fiber blended with angel hair. And no well by tying more of these soon on stream.

@lifliesmike I'm just learning about flyfishing in the salt I've been trout fishing forever but now we have a place at the beach

Nice if you have any questions feel free to ask

@@lifliesmike oh I have lots of questions lol

Oh ok thank you, interesting fly I'll have to check it out

Haha, you're too kind Joe

Thanks Andrew, have a new jiggy tutorial on the way

Nice thats awesome, I've never had to chance to fish for delta stripers out west. Very cool fishery, not that different from our East Coast fishery. Good luck this season, go get em on the fly!

Haha would probably be easier. Don't think it would work with this particular fly unfortunately, but you never know

You get the idea, v ties and trim to the correct shape.

Kind of like the trout streamers with a marabou throat, idk I just like it. Might give a little additional action as well as a whiter belly. Don't know if it actually helps haha

Thanks appreciate it

Oh there will be one this year 😅

Great bows, I haven't shot mine in ages. Should break it out again. Congrats on the new bow

Great idea. You basically scale it down for the hook size but I'll work on a video for micro candies for the next video.

Thank you appreciate that kind words

Some resin from tying candies all day probably. This was while I was tying commercially full time so that vise was being used alot.