How To Tie A Deadly Trout Spey Swinging Fly - The Black Death

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you to everyone who checks this fly out! It is one of my favorites and I hope that you have a ton of success with it!

[@src4526]

it's a humdinger! i'm going to twist up a few.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

@@src4526 Thank you so much! Let ne know how it does for you+

[@justinmorrall5958]

I was just curious if you prefer using braid or Senyo’s trailer wire on your flies? I have watched many of your videos and see you go back and forth. I appreciate all the information you have provided to the public. I have learned a lot from your videos.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Great question! For flies that I don't want the hook to necessarily get caught up in the fly materials, I really like to use wire, but for flies where I want to incorporate the trailer hook in the fly or am not worried about the hook getting caught up in the materials, braid can be great (and cheaper lol). Thank you for watching and for your question!

[@justinmorrall5958]

@@CooperLandingFishingGuide awesome, thank you!!

[@vincentcoppola9832]

Nice pattern - tied well with artic fox for wing.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so so much!

[@bretthumphries7911]

Follow up - landed my first trout on trout spey, swinging a Black Death. I subbed buck tail for craft fur, and added a hot spot. Thanks

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Oh man! That is so awesome to read! Here's hoping to many, many more trout on the spey setup!!

[@bretthumphries7911]

@@CooperLandingFishingGuide thanks, and Ill see you guys next fall.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

@@bretthumphries7911 For sure!

[@peterchuang6498]

Thank you for this excellent video. Paying forward with the following recipe Materials: 6/0 thread black Waddington Shank 25mm (or Senyo articulated shank) Trailer hook 4 or 6 (intruder-style trailer hook. i.e. opst, Gamakatsu Octopus, Partridge Z4) Braid line (i.e. Fireline) 50-lb UV Polar Chenille-copper Hareline bead chain eye (small)-gold Hareline Teal flank feathers-natural Hareline Extra select Craft Fur-black loon UV clear fly fish-flow Special tools: Golf club cleaning brush Dubbing spinner (i.e. opst, hareline or loon) UV flashlight

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Peter Chuang huge thank you! Especially for the recipe! Tight lines!!

[@bretthumphries7911]

Great fly! Nice work with the rabbit, and the scissors, for the rest of us Pettijean's Magic Tool is invaluable. Tight lines.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so much for such kind words and for watching! Tight lines to you too!!

[@stephencifka4629]

Excellent fly, really nice, straight forward explanation. Thanks! This is my kind of fly, simple, has all the trigger components.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Stephen Cifka thank you so much!

[@Jesse-cy7ws]

Thanks from Canada! I can Scandi or long belly this fly without the beads, makes a great leech.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

That is so awesome!!

[@johnshand6176]

Very informative presentation. I will tie up a few for my first try at Spey on the Tongariro River, New Zealand. Thanks from down-under,

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so much! That really means a lot! Good luck at your first go around with spey fishing! Let me know how the fly does :)

[@LineSpeedJediTimRawlins]

Cool fly and video, I learned a lot, like the sparseness of your flies, I'll bet they swim well.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so much! I really like flies with as few materials as possible, but that still have a bigger profile, etc... thanks again!

[@roymay9758]

Almost a Greg Senyo fly minus all the flash. I'll be tying a couple of those. Thanks

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so much for watching Roy! Indeed, very inspired by Greg Senyo for sure! Definitely let me know how they do for you :)

[@roymay9758]

will do ...thanks again

[@jorgesaugar9712]

Excelente!! Desde Patagonia

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so so much Jorge!

[@stephencifka4629]

size hook? what pound firewire?

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Generally 40 lb fire wire and a size 4 octopus. Thanks for asking!

[@richardbrasington6494]

What is the advantage of using a Waddington shank as opposed to a long streamer hook as the shank?

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Hey Richard! Thank you for asking! I think a couple of benefits: you don't have to cut a donor hook, you can use the flat surface of the shank to keep lead eyes from rolling, you can also place the wire on top or below and keep it flat and from rolling. I'm sure there are other benefits, but I think for me, those are a few for sure :)

[@ricksmith3571]

The fly is more stable while swimming if tied on a shank. The double bead chain contributes to this as well. You can cause a more jumpy movement to one side by clipping one of the bead chain eyes. The fly tilts and jerks in that dirrection which has its benefits.

[@321Phinney]

Sorry if I missed it, but why add double chain eyes?

[@lornegiles8863]

I use super glue after the trailer wire or fireline is tied in, also on the bead chains...maybe overkill but they never fall apart

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

I definitely like to do this a lot! The main reason I started tying flies is because I was so tired of them always falling apart :) Thank you for your continued support Lorne!

[@lornegiles8863]

I tie a lot of flies very similar to this but add some grizzly hackles for a wing on top...my weakness, they always have to have them!

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

@@lornegiles8863 Same here! My original patterns like these started out with Grizzly Hackle and I sort of replaced them with rubber legs, but something about those darn grizzly hackles, they just make a pattern look amazing! Maybe I'll do a video of some of the older versions of some of these flies :)

[@lornegiles8863]

@@CooperLandingFishingGuide Yeah and change up the whole look of the fly different colored hackles...plus they swim so nice!

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

@@lornegiles8863 Now you've got me wanting to go tie some flies! lol

[@TheSilver9r]

What's the overall length?

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Excellent question, I would say right at 3" ... maybe a touch longer.

[@CoastalBendFishNinja]

Do you have any recommendations for a micro or small swing streamers? Like half this length? For those days when the fish just want tiny. TIA!

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you so much for watching and for your question! I've been known to throw small woolly buggers, small sculpzilla patterns and I even swing nymphs from time to time on my trout spey setups. I would also check out the OPST micro intruders. Thanks again!

[@joshmocny5375]

If you wanted to change the hook, why wouldn't you be able to slide off the tube piece? Loop a new hook then slide the tube section back on? Am I missing something?

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Usually the tube is longer and designed to "stiffen" the connection between the fly and hook, but this way doesn't help all that much. I mainly experimented with the tube in this fly fpr more of a color change or hot spot if that makes sense

[@mikekuczynski1552]

Nice

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thank you Mike!

[@mikekuczynski1552]

Nice !

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Thanks man!

[@osamabinfaqn6726]

I tie almost the exact same thing. Except mine’s on a tube.

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

That's awesome! I definitely tie these on tubes quite a bit :)

[@osamabinfaqn6726]

Cooper Landing Fishing Guide I also like your “trout intruder”. That thing is sexy. Thanks for the great content.

[@randallbarton1585]

I don't understand tying fly's on a tube. Where's the hook? What's the setup?

[@CooperLandingFishingGuide]

Hey Randall! Thank you for the question and for watching! Essentially, you tie a fly on a tube instead of a hook - think of the tube as something like a coffee stirring straw. You then run the leader through the tube and attach a hook to the other end and pull it into the tube. The advantage is that you can use a shorter shank hook that the fish can not gain leverage over and also the fly sometimes separates from the hook, keeping it away from the fish as well. You can also use the fly over and over and switch the hook as it dulls or as you need to change it. I hope this helps and thank you again! Dave