Night King

Detailed instructions for tying a Night King jig. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine. Check out his article about the fly in the Winter 2020 issue of Fly Tyer Magazine www.flytyer.com/beginners-mas...
Recipe:
Hook: Barbless jig hook (here a Lighting Strike JF2), size 14.
Bead: Black nickel slotted tungsten bead, 7/64-inch.
Thread: Fluorescent pink, 8/0 or 70-denier.
Weight: Lead-free round wire, .020.
Tails: 8 to 10 silver-doctor blue saddle-hackle fibers.
Rib: Medium blue Sulky Holoshimmer Metallic Thread.
Body: 10 to 12 dyed black pheasant-tail fibers.
Collar 1: Peacock-blue Antron dubbing.
Hot spot: Fluorescent pink tying thread.
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[@Ragadadalad]

Thank you for the tip on how to PERFECTLY tie in lead wraps on a jig hook! Great stuff!

[@tightlinevideo]

Only took a couple of years to figure that one out. I am not a fast learner.

[@Flytyerman-ec6vq]

I started tying the "Salmon River Gift"in 2013. Its main feature is a royal blue tinsel or Mylar. The main point is that the color blue is the first color fish can detect after black and white after the sun comes up. Some days in winter it is the only color they can detect due to low level light. It seems to be a trigger color. Regards, Naklab.

[@jeffodabear]

A family friend of mine also swears by blue flues in the winter, so when I started tying flies recently (October 2021) you know I was buying some blue materials

[@ReedL101]

Excellent video. I have picked up some many great tips and fly tying hacks from your videos. Thanks.

[@jacobhornsby5579]

Great fly, great instructions! Some veteran techniques too 👍🏻

[@k9er233]

Excellent instruction and photography.

[@dinoconsabor]

Some really good and handy techniques demonstrated and explained. Thanks for sharing.

[@jeremyraber4057]

So Awesome and so professional keep up great work 👍👌

[@JStocker808]

Loving this tie! Looks good for some winter steelies!

[@tightlinevideo]

Right on!

[@romeobeorchia2268]

I had to leave a review. This fly is a KILLER. This weekend I fished a favorite area using the usual small olive and black winter flies. They worked, but fishing was slower than expected. I tied on a Night King and it turned the day around. Gave one to my buddy and we were both catching trout on this fly over our other flies (two fly rig) about 4 to 1. Didn't matter if this fly was on point or dropper, it was the top producer, pulling many big fish off the bottom. GET SOME OF THESE IN YOUR BOX FOR WINTER!!!

[@seanryan4566]

Suggestion: use that same blue saddle hackle to tie in 2 legs. I tried that on a size 22, and caught a 12" Rio Grande Cutthroat trout with it like that. Great video by the way, very clear instructions, like in the magazine article.

[@rushthezeppelin]

Just wanted to say one year after discovering this fly. This is my second winter using it and man it is an absolute consistent performer in winter months for trout basically everywhere I've tried it. It easily outperforms any naturals (usually a midge) I have on my rig behind it. This is also definitely one of those flies where the more beat up it gets the more it catches fish basically up until the point where the pheasant tail cuts and the pink thread body is exposed.

[@IRieAsAVirus37]

Awesome that'll definitely work in our New York tributaries finally I came across the video where I actually have like 90% of the materials besides a size 16 wish I wish I had a 12 or 14

[@jarrettlandreth285]

Those close up shots are absolute 🔥 best tie flying vids on KZbin

[@tightlinevideo]

Glad you like them!

[@coreystoner4129]

Great tie. I’m tying up sone squirrel torches as me and my buddy call it but it’s just a blow torch tied with a green butt and a squirrel and cdc collar. We destroyed fish all Summer long on them but for the winter months I’ll stick with my rainbow perdigon and egg Stacy egg.

[@duderoony]

Another super pattern tied superbly. Thank you for another one dude.

[@kellygoddard3025]

I really enjoy your videos. You present them very clearly and make them easy to follow.

[@JonDAlessandro]

Brilliant!

[@robertauld2242]

Night King, winter is coming; I get it Jon Snow.

[@terrybois5945]

You know nothing

[@krispost3966]

Seems interesting enough that a trout could take a run at it through the ice 🧊 got any suggestions for ice fishing and flies

[@eliteflies8777]

i like that, sir

[@chrisbendzak2367]

Awesome fly! How do you get your head cement to not thicken in your applicator bottle?

[@newrivernymphs3213]

Could you do a conehead maribu muddler size 8-10 Pretty please with sugar on top there are no good videos on these currently on KZbin. Ps I love your videos keep up the good work and thanks for all your tips

[@Mayflymusings]

Oh yeah!

[@tightlinevideo]

The new website looks great Michael.

[@Mayflymusings]

tightlinevideo Thanks Tim! 🙏

[@User-es2yz]

Suggestion: a Carrie Stevens style streamer, perhaps the classic grey ghost!

[@nixadventures3938]

I hear you GOT

[@icedaft]

Nice tie as always! Do you use Thinner for your Sally Hansen's head cement? I throw my head cement two times because of wrong thinner.

[@tightlinevideo]

I don't thin the Sally Hansen's. If it starts to thicken, which it will over time, I just mix in some fresh or replace it completely.

[@paulholden9578]

Tim, I love the look of this fly and am enjoying tying it, but I'm having some frustration with the holoshimmer: on the first wrap, it occasionally slides backwards down the wrapped pheasant tails and jostles the tail. Further wraps also can be troublesome as well. Could you recommend any tips to remedy this? Thanks!

[@rushthezeppelin]

Just in case you didn't solve this issue that I also had, rib the tinsel the same way as the pheasant tail and then take a really fine wire (I use red) to counter rib both. It's the only way I could make it work.

[@gwestmota]

Tim would you recommend substituting turkey feathers in place of pheasant tails? Thanks

[@slickydicky]

I'm not Tim by any means but I've found that turkey tail makes a pretty good substitute for Pheasant tail

[@rushthezeppelin]

How the hell did you do the tinsel ribbing so easily. I'm trying this fly right now and the tinsel keeps wanting to slip back to the tail. The only way I got it to work was starting a quarter turn of it and locking it in with a tiny dab of uv fly finish and even then my wraps were slipping back a lot as I was continuing to the point where I don't have even ribbing.

[@rushthezeppelin]

So I did figure out how to more or less get the ribbing to work but the problem was as soon as I tried to tie it in while fishing the ribbing once again slipped off. I've now just ribbed the tinsel with the pheasant tail (much easier to get it spaced right this way) and counter ribbed both with some small red wire.

[@rushthezeppelin]

On a positive note though, even with the messed up ribbing I did catch a 15" bow on this fly already.

[@randyeruark9299]

Tim, could you please give me a line on where to get these materials? I live in Boone, Iowa, and materials here are pretty slim. Thank you.

[@rushthezeppelin]

I subbed out the blue saddle hackle for blue marabou, should be easier to find.

[@aaronleavy]

Someone got a new macro lens!

[@tightlinevideo]

I am constantly messing around with lenses. I has always been remarkable to me how critical focal length, minimum focusing distance and comfortable working distance for tying become when I go smaller than about a size 10.

[@DonohoeDSc]

Yeah buddy, as an old guy, I love love love it, the detail in the lead wrap was great!

[@michaellerch7945]

Hey just a question, what is that wedge like tool you use to snip the tying thread?

[@hankvana2149]

That "wedge" is the swage on the bottom of a whip-finisher (used to hold the bead and handle-tube in place) that has been sharpened. Being that you have the whip-finisher in hand at the time, It makes a convenient thread cutter. I file and polish (with 400 grit sandpaper) a small "V" notch into my whip-finisher as I can make it very sharp and still have the bottom of the tool safe to use.

[@tightlinevideo]

This video should help clear things up. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3rInXp7atB9bK8

[@codysummitt5599]

Can you please do some more streamer videos?

[@tightlinevideo]

I've got a few in the works. Looks more like December time frame.

[@ShortyOnTheFly]

As a fly tier and English teacher, dubability is acceptable.

[@tightlinevideo]

Thanks Shorty. I will sleep better tonight knowing that I talk good English.

[@robertcornelius3514]

I don't think the person tying the fly and the voice over is the same person.