Hi Terrybiggenden. It's a small tiny fly that resembles and imitates a variety of even smaller flies. Tie size #18-28. Perhaps you have 2-3 on your leader. Think Griffith's Gnat. It's very thrilling to fish with...

Hi terrybiggenden. Thanks for your words and I agree with you in total. You have for sure already heard the story. But The original Coachman fly is credited to Englishman Tom Bosworth, a nineteenth-century fly fisherman and flytier. He was actually a coachman and drove coaches for three British monarchies. Although a “royal coachman” himself, he chose to call his fly simply a “Coachman”. A story that gives me a sense of pride and respect for these Masters of Fly-Tying.

Hi Terrybiggenden. Thanks for your feedback. Fly tying is very much for your own eyes. A agree

Hi, Terrybiggenden. It is beautiful in its simplicity

Hi, Terrybiggenden. Yes, it's a fly pattern with some years on its neck. Still workable

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 ost f the old flies will always work. I enjoy them. :-)

Rogan of Donegal mail order...the old ways...

Hi, wilsoncaddis. It's fewer and fewer users of upeye-hooks for dry flies. I don't know why. Mr. Oliver Edwards the real "Mr. Fly Tying-man" from the UK used to say "...the hook shows where the fly should be. Down eye hook under the surface, up eye hook above the surface..." My fly-tying mentor (not with us anymore...) always said the same to me for over 55 years when I started tying my flies. I still like upeye-hooks for dry flies.

Hi Terrybiggenden. Thanks for still watching my videos. I appreciate it very much. I have heard that it got its name from someone who knew an old butcher in Scotland. The red color should symbolize the blood on the butcher's apron.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Hello. That's the usual story. I also read that it was banned on sor at least very disapproved of on some British waters for a time, a being too effective. Who knows? :-)

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN I have heard that too. Could be truth...

Hejsan, bennofransson9154. Tack för att du ser på mina videos. Verktyget som jag använder för att kapa bindtråden är ett Stonfo-verktyg. stonfo.com/en/p/thread-cutter/ som jag använt ganska länge. Jag tycker jag kommer närmre till skärpunkten och slipper resttråd efter saxen, som inte når ända in till skärpunkten. Verktyget finns hos många webshopar. Kan verkligen rekommendera verktyget.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Hittade det så nu är det beställt. Tack👍

@@bennofransson9154 Det var ett smart verktyg som fyller sin uppgift. Kan vara lite känsligt att använda till börja med. Men det kommer. Lycka till med användningen.

Hi TokyoNightGirl-fk4cn. Thanks for your feedback! Do you also tie flies for fishing? Maybe you are a fly fisherman too? Have a nice day.

Hi Terrybiggenden. Thanks for your feedback. This nymph was the very first nymph my fly tying mentor taught me. It still works after more than 55 years of fly tying. I'm still learning

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 We are all still learning. :-)

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN ...step by step...

Hi JohnCTill. Hi John. Thanks for your feedback. This fly is done with Tail: Mallard Flack feather. Body: Hare's Ear dubbing Ribbing: Gold thin wire Wing: Mallard Flack feather Collar: Deer Hair Head: Deer Hair. I'm not confortable to speak english in my videos. However, if you want the material list of used material just give me a note and I fix it

Hi S.V.C.B. I hope so. I'm not comfortable talking English in my videos. So I start to subtitle instead.

Hi Terrybiggenden. No fishing day without Zulu. I usually go for Black, Red and Blue Zulu. Which versions are you using?

Hi Terrybiggenden. I'm not quite sure, but back in history I learn that from beguinnings it was Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green and Brown. Today it's mostly Blue and Black we use.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Yes, different versions based on hackle I think. No matter. they al work. :-)

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN Hi Terrybiggenden. For sure. When nothing else works - Zulu works.

Hi terrybiggenden. Blue is a underestimated color. Especial wet flies and streamers.I have heard that blue is the last color to fade out in depth of water

Hi. Sorry that I let you wait to my response. Thanks for your feedback! Have a nice season

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 you are welcome! No worries!

Hi S.V.C.B. I believe its action part that gave the fly its name. Something happens when you use the fly

Hi, TokyoNightGirl. Thanks for your feedback.

Hi TokyoNightGirl. Thanks for your feedback. Are you a fly tier too?

Hi, oldsmuggler. It's a fly pattern with a lot of history I've heard. I have never tried it, but I heard that it works in both River Dee and Spey River. Have you tried it?

Hi S.V.C.B. Hi s.v.c.b. Nice that you were familiar with ABU Optic Chillimps. I don't think they are for sale anymore. It was one of the first flies I learned about in my youth.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Hej, Jan. Simply after we spoke about ABU Svängsta flies, I did a little research on their variety. Same time I saw how this fly is made by Michael Jensen and was waiting for your version. The fact that these flies are not on sale anymore only stimulates tying them.

@@S.V.C.B.Hi, S.V.C.B. Yes, they are stimulating to tie ones more

Hello terrybiggenden. Thank you for your feedback. This fly pattern has given me some a nice times fishing for perch on #3/4 fly rod. Have you tried that before?

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 I want to this winter when the trout season ends. perch here are a massve pest-they are a declared noxous species, along with carp, so people are encouraged to catch as many as possible. Good to reat as well. :-)

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN Hi, Terrybiggenden. Just go for it! Send report

Hi, S.V.C.B. Thanks for your feedback and that you are observant. However, It's not glue. It's old fancy Veniard liquid wax. I suppose I'm the only one in my neighborhood and fly-tyers who knows about and use liquid wax today. When I use it and just lay the dubbing to the tying-thread it gives me another opiontions for how to do dubbing.

Hi, brianinsole9911. Thanks for your feedback. If you want or need a list of used materials just give me a note. Wish you a good season.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 thank you for your reply . If I need anything I,ll contact you . All thebest Brian

Hi S.V.C.B. ABU Svängsta, which manufactured fishing gear, had a short time where they also produced accessories for their fishing rods, fly rods, reels and fly reels. They were selling lots of fishing lures, and fishing nets and the connection between fishing lines and fishing lures. I never fish with spinning fishing/spinning so I'm not sure of the name for all of those accessories. During that period ABU Svängsta also introduced a series of flies. Meant for fishing on salmon and sea trout in River Morrum, which runs just outside the ABU head office in Svängst, Blekinge, Sweden. The name of the fly series was ABU Optic. The names of the flies were Playboy, Pin-Up, Streamtease and Callgirl. They were tied in black, red and silver. You could be choosing between Tube fly, Chillimps, Salmon fly, Streamers and with the invention sort of "Up-Side-Down" fly. Long ago Garcia Fishing Gear bought ABU Svängsta and changed its name to ABU Garcia.

Hi, helgeo.sommer584. Thanks for your feedback. Enjoy your fishing season. 👍

Hi Terrybiggenden. I love to fly patterns built up on beauty and simplicity. One of my favorites besides Alder and some other Classics is March Brown Wet Fly.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Mine too. The March Brown is fantastic anywhere as far as I am concerned. :-)

Hi Terrybiggenden. This fly pattern I haven't tried for a long time. It's tied out of my memory - and that's not for the best... But I do remember some nice catches of brown trout and rainbows in mostly reservoir fishing. I hope the nickname "Brown Bomber" was with respect for those from WW2.

Hi Terrybiggenden. How are you? Same opinion. I like those uncomplicated fly patterns.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Thanks. I have been tyng flies-new kinds of spiders and wets. I tend to tie what I feel like . I hope to try some out very soon. :-) Hope you are well and fishing is good (winter though for you!). I watch a series by a famous Swedish angler‚very vry good. No bullshit as far as I can tell. Some of the many fly fishing videos are full of shouting. bragging people. :-(

I like this ma'ns work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWKnhWigjJeDiLc

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN Hi Terrybiggenden. I agree with you. Lots of fly tyers look like they want to hide behind "sound walls" and other effects instead of showing us their skills in fly tying. Some of them are very good fly tyers. It could be a lack of confidence. It would have been very interesting to see your flies. Any fly pattern for me too...? Is it OK with you to show me on your KZbin account? May I visit your account? In Sweden, we are in the middle of winter. Difficult for fly fishermen. In southern Sweden there is some open water. But mostly in the sea between Sweden and Denmark and the Baltic Sea. In the middle of Sweden and to the north it is still winter with snow, ice and temperatures below -5/-10 Celsius. I live in Stockholm. It will take another 5-6 weeks before open water. First up is fly fishing for sea trout fishing and pike. In early April, all put 'n' take and reservoir fishing opens. Lots of "natural waters" will be ice-free and visitable from April. It is "my waters". For me, put 'n' take and reservoir fishing are a lot of fun, but what is closest to my heart are "natural waters" and then I have to travel 250-350 kilometers from Stockholm to the north.

Hi, s.b. Thank you for your feedback and for sharing your experiences. I look forward to many more. It's the best way to learn. And we would never learn too much. I tried your idea for the first time ever. And it looks very good. Thanks! I have four ways to tie in peacocks as material. Peacock is one of the weakest fly-tying materials I know. Only partridge feathers are weaker. 1. Make a dubbing loop. Wrap the peacock herl around one of the "legs" and then close the loop and twist it. 2. Twist two, three or more peacocks around. They become stronger because they are twisted. 3. Like your idea, but use black binding wire as the rib. 4. Tie in peacock herls to the hook. Get them together. Twist the binding thread around the peacock hearts. I look forward to more exchanges of ideas and tying technics. Question; how do you solve to do body wrap with biots to get the nice "ribb" of biots? I think it is a tricky material and only one side of the biot is useful. What's your opinion?

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Hej, Jan! Once I bought peacock eyes in a women's hat shop in Oslo, the other time in Kid's or in Bohus (they were suggested to decorate the interior, I think). Both times I got very good, strong feathers, that served me long and successfully. But I agree, if you get the packed strings from the fly shop you never know what quality you would obtain. I don't like very much using both loop or twisting, because first way does not form an even cover, and the other drives you more towards breaking as many strings as you twist (at least it's my personal experience). Ribbing with wire is as great as with mono, especially if you make a wet fly since the wire adds weight. I use mono for dry flies. For example, I was asked to make 60 Red Tags in dry variation, and tied them the most classic way but adding some mono ribbing for certain strength. They stay upon surface pretty long, unless soak much water (but it's generally the virtue of all dry flies unless they are made of complete synthetics. Jan, I find biots to be very tricky material, and use them not frequently. But on tiny flies it's possible to tie in even goose biots, although turkey biots are obviously longer and comfortable. To handle them I usually make them a bit wet. Then they don't break at the tip and wind way easier. Also it's important to properly place them against the hook, the bearded side should be turned upwards to wind them flat side forward. And although I try to tie neatly, I don't care how I finish tying them in since I usually cover this place with dubbing afterwards. Hopefully I managed to answer your question...

Hi Terry Biggenden. Thank you for your feedback. Strange, but there aren't that many blue fly patterns that I could remember. A few of them are the Blue Professor Wet Fly, Blue Charm, Big Intervale Blue Salmon Fly, Laxa Blue, and some more. When we consider that blue is the last color to disappear in deep water it should've been even more blue-colored fly patterns.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Yes. There is the BLue Zulu and Silver Doctor? I ties a blue and shite wet fly the other years and caught one trout. I also had several missed takes, sio I guess it works. I will tie some more soon. It was in Chelsea Football Clubs colours for a relative.

@@TERRYBIGGENDEN Hi Terry Biggenden. Sorry. I'm not a sports fan. The last time I was integrated with the sport was in the late 1970s. Then it was F1 for me and Marlboro. I worked for Philip Morris when I owned the Marlboro brand. So from the early 1980s, I am not a sports fan anymore. I have built some fly rods in the colors of some football clubs for some customers and marked the fly rods with the football club emblem. You couldn't imagine how many club colors blue/white, green/white and red/white. Fewer with triple color and even fewer with single color. What's your favorite sport?

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Oh, I am fan of sports fan at all. I don;t like it. it was just a gesture to my relative. He passed away. Australa is sports mad and it irrtates me beyond words. 😞

Hejsan, Michael. Tack för din feedback. Det är en roligt och spännande hobby mellan lyckade fisketurer. Lev gott!

Hi s.b. Hi s.b. Thank you for your feedback. I have to say "Same, same, same". Your customers are probably thinking "...I got a catch last time on that fly so I'll buy some more..." We need to broaden the customers' inspiration and knowledge of other super effective and beautiful fly patterns. Most fly patterns sold today are from the late 1980s or 1990s. Very few fly patterns created in the 21st century have the same high reputation as the Woolly Bugger from the 1950s. Woolly Buggers are derived from Woolly Worms which are from the 1930s. I am about to start selling the flies of the season or even the flies of the month. In a set of few or a handful of designs. Then there is a chance to show other fly patterns as well. From my point of view, I think 19th and 20th-century fly patterns are more effective over longer periods than the Woolly Bugger. And they are often the "Original for modern fly patterns.

Hi Terrybiggenden. Exactly my point of view too. Wet flies are underrated. They came before nymphs, were used before nymphs and have always been before nymphs. They are beautiful in their simplicity. When I tie flies only for myself I also usually choose wet flies. Also when fishing.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 tnk have sad before- I fish wets most of the time. Wets and nymphs. Dries once n a whle. I really enjoy wet flies and they work so well. I like the mystery of what will take them. :-)

Hello, s.b.6849. You are observant! Yes, it is a new vise from Stonfo. It's a Stonfo Kaiman Vise. I do not have the financial capacity to buy expensive, fancy and exclusive. But this one covers my needs and helps me to do what I want to do. Thanks for your feedback on the fly pattern too. I don't know your age, but do you remember ABU Svängsta before it became ABU Garcia? Callgirls, Streamtease, Callgril and Pin-Up were fly patterns that were developed by ABU Svängsta/Garcia for flyfishing in the Mörrum River. It's more than 30 years ago so you probably don't heard about them. But they are good streamers and Salmon flies.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Well, I might remember those times, but I haven't been fond of angling then. I will read some about it. As for me, after I run onto Danica Danvise there is no better device that I used.

Hi, s.b.6849. Ha ha ha ha. I've done lots of weird things in my life, but I'm not learning Russian. I think it's some river, stream or lake. Do you speak Russian?

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Fluently. Together with English, French, some Norwegian, Bulgarian, and think of starting Swedish.

Hi, s.b.6849. Incredible!!! How do you manage that? Do you have those languages in your family, work or just by interest? I'm happy to talk Swedish correctly. And I'm born in Sweden. Actually in Skåne - south part of Sweden - next door to Denmark.

@@kingsmeadowflyrod-atasteof4139 Some of the languages come from the family, like Russian and French. Scandinavian languages are also relative to my family, but much earlier in the history, besides I like them very much. Bulgarian I learned while worked there in my early days, English I've known since I was a child.

@@S.V.C.B. His.b. You are outstanding!! I don't think it has anything to do with the story. I think it has to do with you. Even with lots of languages in the family, it's up to you to learn the languages around you. I have been working in international companies all my life. I have traveled around the globe a couple of times. Company languages have always been English. I tried to learn French ones working for a French company. Today I can order lunch... I tried to learn Japanese ones working for a Japanese company. Today I can not even order lunch... But I still think in English instead of Swedish sometimes. After almost 40 years with English as a company language has done that. Many times you get more out of movies in Anglo-Saxon language. But since I stopped working in companies owned by someone else I noticed declining skills in English.