Great job explaining each step of this fly and it sure looks buggy. I purchased my first vise in 1989 and made many hundreds of flies and then I started to dedicate all my time working and spending time with my child. 20 years later if it wasn't for KZbin I would have been lost because of all the new materials available now. Thankfully people like you take the time to explain everything. Thanks for doing so.

Worst thing is the crap hook as it has really poor hooking characteristics.

Cool looking fly. Your methods were so well described, I think even I could tie this fly... and I will tie it. Thank you for sharing.

I saw your post on Instagram for this fly. Nice fly and video. Like and subscribed.

Some more glue that he never uses.😎

Beautiful nymph

Love this fly but that looks bigger than a size 14.

I totally agree. Bigger fish don’t usually move for dry flies around here.

Good job! Looks very nice

I was waiting for you to catch Your Mistake with the FlashBack. Just like I’d do it. Nice job

Great tie Gary! I like the way you tie yours. Thats also great that you are telling newbies how to do different techniques and the ‘why’s’ . One of the things that fairly new tiers will think about while tying a conventional fly pattern is how they can innovate and create slightly different versions of say ,the ones that are in the instructional video or books. I always like the way you explain as you go! I wish I had your videos when I was learning. Take care and tightlines! Also, how was your trip to Maine?

That's a great looking golden stone fly. Good video.

Nice bug! I have been looking for a good realistic stone fly. Have you ever tried tying left handed? I just tried tied it this week because I thought using my right hand to hold the different materials to the hook would make it easier to accurately hold them in place. I think I am going to stick with it. Turns out wrapping thread around a hook isn’t that difficult.

How I do it is I tie lead wire to each side of the abdomen so it's flat and bit wider then I use bright yellow thread and tie the vynil packed flat side up over it to create the abdomen

I spent a day perfecting braided tails years ago and they looked magnificent in the box. The problem is that the braiding restricts the tail movement to almost zero. A damsel swims with its entire body and you're better off using a plain marabou tail on a short shaft hook.

Nicely done! 👍🏻 (That said, I kind of prefer sparse and slightly tall hair wings for Catskill style flies. Even if they're not traditional. That's just me, tying!)

As a fisher of various wooly bugger variants, this is a "must have". Tying some tomm..

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In my opinion I think you did an excellent job on this old fly. In finishing up the Head if you want a cleaner head wrap the last hackel around the thread and pull it back into the hackels and whip Finnish. Go ahead and give it a try. I've been twisting feathers forever sixty five years. Good luck and health for you and your's Dave Hughes 🎣🤠

I love this

Another nice pattern Gary! Started using the touch dub technique for my sulphurs last year, but will have to try your wing bud/case method this year on those finicky WB PhD browns😆

Well done!

Another way, in addition to making a peacock rope as you did, to improve the durability of the peacock body, is to add a coat of hard as nails or similar, on the shank where you intend to make the body, prior to winding the peacock, in effect “ glueing it in place. At this point, I secure at the head, cut the thread and place to dry the body. I make at least 6 bodies in a session. By the time you make the sixth one the first one should be dry and ready for the next steps. I have found adding this step significantly improves the durability! I tie a very similar pattern using Mallard flank for the wing! Thanks!

Very nice!! I'll try to do it as soon as possible, thanks!!

Great work 👌

Great tie!! Are you keeping the pheasant tail fibers on the tail???

I know it may sound crazy but when I use fur that has long guard hairs that are too long or I don’t like, I’ll pull them out put them in a stacker and then put them back into my bundle. It may not be for everyone but that’s what works for me. I can’t believe I’ve been tying flies for 52 years now! I’ve tied commercially for about 28-30 years and now I’m getting a little older and there is a burnout factor! I not only tied for 4 shops and I also built fly rods and tied flys out of my house. I remember when Coz and Paul Whemer opened the Blue Wing Outfitters shop in Hancock, NY I was the guest fly tier for the weekend and Charlie Meck came Sunday for book signing. Paul and I were fishing on Spring Creek in Bellefonte, Pa just before they were scheduled to open and he asked me if I could help them out with tying flies to fill their boxes before they open. I told Paul of course I’d help him and Coz out. Well, Paul and I sat on the bank and got a pad out of my truck to right down some patterns to tie for them. When I got done writing I had 128 dozen flies to tie! That wasn’t the bad part but when he said he needed them in 3 weeks I was shocked! I promised I would have them done and I sure get them all done! Thank God I could get some time off from my law enforcement job to get them done! It kind of started for me like that at Pinewood Flies with Ray Grandner in Pine Valley, NY. I was tying so many flies that I retired and started working for Ray in the fly shop. I can’t even tell you how many flies I tied a day for him in the shop besides sales and building rods! I’d love to do it all over again if I were younger because I love tying flies and designing flies! I only had one guy steal and copy my patterns and they were some killer steelhead flies! The shop was Bill’s Hooks in Dunkirk, NY on Canadaway Creek. Oh well, I love your flies and videos so keep up the good work. God Bless.

Yes! I’ve been watching every possible KZbin video made about flyfishing for Atlantic’s up in Cape Breton Island, The Margaree River mostly and you nailed it. Their go-to dry flies are bomber variations mostly. Will be busy filling a box of all types of salmon flies this summer. And also yes,The New Flyfisher has two very informative vids on flyfishing the Margaree. Full of tips and where and how to improve your chances on the rivers up there. We’re leaving the end of August and staying into October.

Man,if this doesn’t look like a very big fish fly nothing does! I’m going to have to add a few of these to my steamer box! Thank you Gary! Also,do you think they would make a good Atlantic Salmon fly? Heading to Nova Scotia in the fall.

Nice fly. I keep a pad of post it notes when I tie. I put the resin on the pad and put the resin on the fly with a bodkin. It prevents getting to much on the fly.

Really like how you tied in the deer hair tail vs Galloup. I’ve been using nano silk these days as I can pull hard with deer hair. Thanks for a great video.

Your instructions are exceptional. I love the birds singing in the background!

Can you share the exact hook used in this video? Got the almond beads.

In a world filled with plastic and resin flies, I appreciate these kinds of videos, keep it up.

👌very good tips!

shades of the late Shane Stalcup.....nice tie

This body style is incredible.

Excellent pattern

You can probably send a thread sample to a fly shop and they can match it up.Very realilistic pattern.Nice work.

sweet, maybe our paths will cross on the stream someday. Keep up the videos! God bless

Nice tutorial Gary! I’ve never tied or fished Zonkers, but given this smaller version of this fly it looks like this would entice some very big trout to take a chomp out of it. Thanks for yet another awesome flytying vid! Now I gotta go pickup some materials for this fly.

Where's the ugliness after all? Great tie, I need some! I wander how that will ork with some guard hair in loop instead of the hackle feather...🤔

How about Dai-Riki #285 Nymph Hooks for it? What’s yours? 🥇🧨💖

Nice looking fly , not difficult to tie . I like it :-) Thanks for sharing

Happened onto your channel .... glad I did. Great tie. Nice and clean technique. Thanks

Gary, Very nice tie. Were to find duck biots ?

Nice tie fly and commentary thanks

Just a little information for you. The Polly balls they use in tying trout egg sacks can be used and the netting they use for tying the egg sack can be used and they’re very readily available. Just like your polly balls and the netting come in a verity of colors. I hope that helped. As far as the tie it looks awesome and very creative! Can elk hair be used also?

Isn’t this a Frank Betters pattern ?

Perhaps the finest tied dry fly that I have seen! Bravo!!!