Your welcome. I'm happy that you liked it.

Solarez is good stuff. When you see Ron at the symposium tell him I said Hi.

Doug, It's a mixed bag. Most vices can be used right or left-handed. Some have adjustments on the jaws for hook sizes and when tying those adjustments (usually a small knurled screw) normally are on the jaw side facing you. I'm right-handed but tied for years on a left-handed vise. I found it more comfortable. This might be hard to follow but try this. Hold your dominant arm out in front of you, palm up, and flex your wrist up so you are looking at your palm. I find this comfortable and if the adjustment is on the back side of the jaws my hand is in a comfortable position while making the adjustment. Now with your arm still extended turn your palm down. Now flex your wrist up so you are looking at the back of your hand. I find this uncomfortable and if the adjustment is on the front of the jaws my hand is in an uncomfortable position while making the adjustment. Sorry if that's not clear. The long and short of it is for a lot of vices there is no right or left-handed version. For those that make a distinction, the changes are minor.

John, You're welcome for both. I'm glad to see you're still tying and enjoying it.

No need to convince me - I'm a believer in eyes on flies. Even more so as years go by. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you.

Good pattern for sure. I left a couple on the bottom of the Kennebec River yesterday so both river bottoms are spotted with them 🙂

It's a pretty all-around pattern. I generally use it with a cast across - dead-drift as far as I can and then swing it with a hand-over-hand retrieve. It's also good as a dropper above a heavy bottom-bumping stone.

It is. Works too. Gets me a lot of hookups. Unfortunately, a lot of them are bottom :-(

That's cool - I suspect a Roach looks like a real meal to a hungry trout. 🙂

Glad you like the pattern. Thanks for mentioning that Alvis's shop has packs of 12. That's important information for anyone who doesn't have a duck-hunting friend. 🙂 One person I talked to about the fly speculated that the reason that feather got chosen for the wing was that Alvin would buy whole Wood Duck skins and break them down so he could sell the Lemon Flank feathers, wings, and Black-Barred flank feathers to meet the demand. However, there was no demand for the White Tipped Breast feathers so Nancy and Bill could get them for next to nothing.

It also probably helped that while Alvin was still a warden, Alvin lived very near the Pray’s store up near Rip. It was a real disappointment when we went to camp one summer & discovered the store was closed. As a warden, Alvin could move very silently & would usually startle the heck out of me when he stepped out of the brush & politely asked to check my fishing license.

Thank you. Glad you liked the video.

The tip of a pen works well. Hope the fly does well for you.

Glad you liked it and thanks for the positive comment about the channel. Don't let them rough you up in Facebook Jail 🙂

No special type of water. They skitter nicely on ponds or and bounce along over riffles for quite a length.

Thanks. I donate my flies to a chapter Healing Waters & want them to be likely to work on the pond where they fish. I’m sure some of them will get a kick out of the unusual look of the Renegade. :-)

Thank you.

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Didn't know any of my videos were on Global FlyFisher, I'll have to check it out. That cabin on Pemadumcook Lake is mine - built it in 1994. I'm surprised you saw the page I'm working on I haven't finished it and so haven't promoted it. Hate to sell it but it's time to move on.

I was going to suggest that you post there, since I think your videos would help other tyers. However, when I went to check the site, I found you were already there. I guess either Martin, the publisher, found the video on his own or a member suggested you on his/her own. However, not all of your videos are there. I’ve corresponded several times with Martin about good sites & even gotten advice from him about how to flyfish from a wheelchair. Not fishing drives me nuts. After I get a chair, I may give a try. If you are interested, you could contact Martin directly about regularly posting or I could recommend you to him. He’s a great guy, & has already shown he likes your videos by posting them. Re: Your camp. We are neighbors & I’m pretty sure I know your cabin. Our camp is on a small cove off the point where your lake ends & becomes North T. I’d prefer not to give details on a publicly viewed site. Is your email the same as in the camp ad?

@@FlyTyer1948 I'm flattered that some of my videos have been posted on GFFbut I'm not looking to post them anywhere but here - too time-consuming to post on multiple sites. Yes, that's my current email address on the post you saw.

Yes, I bought a pound of dubbing from Fran Betters - possum (dyed orange) that he used for several patterns. I ran a fly shop at the time and packaged it up for sale. You'll have luck with this pattern.

You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it.

Hey Tom, life is good - great to hear from you. I tie them on size 4 and 6 extra-long streamer hooks for casting. I only tie a few tandems for trolling - hard to find feathers long enough for tandems. If you need some feathers to tie up a couple me - I'll send you some.

Kinda threw me - this question somehow ended up on an Edson Tiger video. The Canvasback feather was jut shy of 5" long. However, the butt of the stem is hollow and I had to move up the stem to find a section that wasn't hollow at the tie in point. Usable length ended up being about 3 1/2" - hard to find tandem sized feathers.

Thanks for replying. It is weird that my comment showed up here & not on the Joe’s Smelt video where I left it. That canvasback feather sure is long. I don’t think I’ve seen their feathers sold online before. I think I’ll check with Alvin Theriault to see if he has them. I’m not able to fish anymore, but I tie for a Healing Waters group. They are based on a small pond & are not likely to need tandem streamers, but I’ll bet those large feathers would be quite useful on other flies.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I've enjoyed many of yours. There may be Zoom presentations in my future (they say our area will have the bandwidth soon) and after just viewing your video showing how to demo a fly using a laptop I'm inspired to start setting up a modest "Zoom Studio." Watching that video and the discussion after took longer than it should have because I keep pausing to write notes. - Thanks 🙂

If you mess up the first one the good part is it doesn't cost much to start over 🙂

Aye. I hope you don’t mind. I shared this video with Al & Gretchen Beatty.

@@FlyTyer1948 Not at all, thank you for taking the time.

Agreed, that video is six years old - call it a learning error. Little to no music on new videos. I hope you found it useful enough to justify listening. :-)

I've got a few more to put up here. Glad you're enjoying them.

Thank you. Glad you liked it.

Thank you, this was a fun one to research and tie. Glad you enjoyed it.

You're right people don't say glue each step like they used to. Sure makes a fly "bulletproof."

Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to make.