Fly Tying Skill Builder #26 | How to Tie Humpy Wings, Thread Sizes, and GSP

[@nedzamarripa8390]

Hey F.F.F, I have been enjoying your videos for long enough that I don’t believe I have missed many. I have been a volunteer mentor with Healing Waters for several years now and have enjoyed spending as much time with our local Veterans as I possibly can. I do employ a great deal of your video’s and other information you’re providing on your channel and website. So, I get a lot of questions from the participants, especially new people regarding ‘Catch and Release’ , as I’m sure you get the same. Unless I have missed something along the way, not much time has been spent on this subject. I do recall Lance and Cheech addressing this somewhat in an earlier Pod cast. Maybe it could be covered in a little depth in one of these great videos. I believe it’s a very important subject not only the ‘how to’ but to explain the ‘why-do it’ and a recent comment I got from a new very green participant, “ their going to just swim off and die anyway “. Not to spend too much time here, I would greatly appreciate some good material on this subject. Thanks guys!

[@edwardmlotkiewicz2343]

Great explanation of the difference in thread designations by various manufacturers. Always great tips, Cheech,thanks

[@chrismills59]

I believe Denier relates to weight per unit as opposed to x/0 which reflects breaking strain, hence the inconsistent relationship. They don't quite measure the same thing. Loving the Tips videos

[@robgreen6697]

Great instruction, hope to see a humpy in a tie off soon. Thanks for the insights into thread it’s a right pain in the derrière that manufactures use their own scales

[@HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy]

Denier is a measurement of weight in grams per 9000 meters. It's typical for 70 denier thead of different brands to also be very different diameters, given that polyester, nylon, silk, and GSP have very different weights. Probably also why you see gsp in 30, 50 and 100 denier instead of 70, and 140, or 72 and 136. The Textile industry is just stupid with how they measured threads. I'm actually surprised that fly tying thread isn't measured in the tex# system as well haha.

[@bobbell5265]

Well tied Sir 👌

[@edpeter9411]

Dude, if I cut all the haters off my fly I’d be left with a bare hook!🤣 great demo, thanks a ton.

[@Leavenotraceexpeditions]

Thank you

[@deankrueger7178]

Great thread explaining. Just wish you would have covered mono cord. It's what I like for foam.

[@FurtherNorth]

Good job, I'm really enjoying this series One thought: telling viewers - particularly beginners - which sizes of thread are larger/smaller would have helped. How does 70 denier compare to 140 denier...how does 8/0 compare to 12/0?

[@BenCallahan333]

I love cheech and gsp thread😩😩

[@acinpdx9814]

Isn’t a Copic marker more $$ than a spool of GSP?

[@FlyFishFood]

Yeah. Copics wash off super fast though. Sharpies are great.

[@xiping349]

From the beard you could tie great streamers😅

[@ph2738]

18:18 “and you should have a really nice smooth body”. (“In their Steely Dan t-shirts.”) OK, How about tying advice for the rest of us with flabby old bodies?

[@66bigbuds]

Gsp is for me cause I break the rest.

[@FlyFishFood]

I guarantee it’s your bobbin.

[@66bigbuds]

@@FlyFishFood even with ceramic.

[@FlyFishFood]

@@66bigbuds which one?