SQUIRMY WORMY: Fly Tying Tutorial

In this short tutorial Ryan Ratliff, fly tying manager and guide at Mad River Outfitters teaches you the most effective way to tie a Squirmy Wormy Pattern without slicing your material.
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[@scottm.2490]

Thanks for making this video. Super easy to tie and I have been killing the pan fish on this fly.

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Scott M. Thanks for watching Scott. Glad to hear they are working for you. Stay tuned.

[@davidgregg6703]

Would these work on the river fishing for brown trout

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Of course.

[@holyworrier]

'Tying' worms, are we?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Appears that way. Yes.

[@philipbray6193]

Got to be the best method I caught 10 + Rainbow using this pattern yesterday

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Yes, excellent flies.

[@caseyfuger553]

Thank God for Mad river outfitters

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks for watching and please stay tuned.

[@tomhines5999]

Thanks, Ryan. I'm wondering whether almost any UV stuff would work, or is there magici in the Loons brand? tom

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks for watching. Feel free to call or e-mail Ryan at the shop directly and he'll be happy to help. He won't see the question here just so you know.

[@Outdoorslife1776]

I had the oppourtunity to meet the guy who invented this fly and visit the fly shop he works at, im exited to see what fish i can catch with this fly

[@Madriveroutfitters]

@@Outdoorslife1776 Thanks for watching!

[@lensherlinski9273]

Very informative, have you ever just used dubbing so as not to pinch the squirmy material, after I put my base thread on the hook I start my wraps over the squirmy material with dubbed thread never have had a problem slicing the material.. I have had great luck using scud dubbing on my squirmies I do like your use of the thread while tying down the worm material, I can see why that would work, and especially the counter clockwise spin so as to have flat thread.Nice work....

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks! That's a good idea. Gonna give that a try.

[@allenstowe3296]

Nice!

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks for watching.

[@joeandrejco3827]

So I loose my mind with trying to get it secured straight I take some wire and use that to secure it while I wrap seems to work for me

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Cool...thanks for sharing.

[@Picubozo1]

Thick or Thin Loon UV finish?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thin for sure so that it gets soaked up nice by the thread wraps! Thanks for watching.

[@tiggerwoods8829]

So why is it controversial?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Tigger Woods There are some folks out there who consider this not a fly. Especially the ones made from the Squirmy rubber material. They consider this cheating.

[@tiggerwoods8829]

Really? They should get a life and worry about something thats actually important.

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Tigger Woods Agreed!!!!

[@1pcmedic]

Because is looks like a rubber worm....LOL!

[@RyltarSB]

@@tiggerwoods8829 It's a fly that can outright win a tournament on the right day, and not banned from tournaments as far as I know. Of course some people are going to be butt hurt about it. This is a great steelhead fly for me, and a must in a 2 fly fishing rig for trout (anchor nymph + squirmy)

[@chrisburger8044]

Reallly great video tried tying some of my own and turned out great and the fish liked them too. But I was just wondering what’s the smallest size you could go for a squirmy wormy?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

Thanks for watching. You can go as small as you like but would think that anything below 16 might be challenging and the material just simply too thick at that point. Let us know if we can help further.

[@aaronwardsemail]

Can you please add the material list for the Fly Fishing vids?

[@Madriveroutfitters]

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