Bucktail - Reverse BULKhead, Finishing Large Flies

[@kennygann903]

Love your thorough explanations on each portion of the fly,driving home the most important aspects,thanks for all your instruction and insight

[@JamesSmith-uy3pe]

Great job! You are not a broken record, you are driving home the importance and I appreciate that.

[@mattfleming86]

I know it seems "broken record" to you, but to us its a GREAT teaching skill. I'm starting to catch myself repeating your words in my head as I tie.

[@Eroach2008]

This guy is a great communicator

[@bugbiteflytying]

I am over dressing my Bucktail by a tad. The ones I posted today are a bit too much. Great videos!! Big takeaways for me were: the soft wrap to compress the flare and when pulling the thread forward on reverse tie is to start up from the bucktail and wrap towards it to start cone.

[@johnnylightning1491]

Another good video Gunnar. You are repetitive but for a reason, it's important. Keep the good stuff coming buddy.

[@d.edwardmanders4496]

Would love to see some underwater action videos on all these flies so far. Great video man!

[@wianmoolman6906]

Hi Gunnar, what is the practical difference between a bulkhead and reverse bulkhead? When would you choose one technique over the other?

[@flytyryguy]

Very helpful

[@michelboivin148]

Great teaching as usual and so useful ! Can you add a few words about hook selection ( in terms of weight and shank length) for your Bulkheads ? Many thanks again !

[@jimypop1]

Do you only fish these with sinking line only? I have to weight my buck tail a lot to get any sinking g out of them.

[@andreashaase1540]

Awesome Gunnar! Is there any video, or plannings, what thread you use for what materials or fly‘s and why?

[@Gunnar_Brammer]

For sure - I’ll add a Thread Selection video to the Thread Control Series at some point. Long story short, I tie 99% with Mono. Danville 0.006” Mono, or Veevus 0.008” (stronger, and better suited to use with non-compressible synthetics). The other 1% is used for Dubbing Loops, for which I use 150 GSP for Bucktail Loops and 210 Flymaster Plus for Strung Fuzzy Fiber and Flashabou Loops.

[@Mkeflyfish]

@@Gunnar_Brammer Mono is a game changer for bucktail work.

[@Oholisfliesandfishing]

Why not GSP? I am good with trout flies, but i am jumping more into streamers. ​@@Mkeflyfish

[@Mkeflyfish]

@@Oholisfliesandfishing I prefer building thread dams with mono over GSP. But both will do great, especially if you cord up your gsp by giving it a good spin.

[@sigurdurmarolafsson4183]

Hy Gunnar, did you make these drawings into posters like you talked about some ( long) time ago?? I could not find them on your webpage.

[@augustonthefly]

I been tying reverse bulkhead and hollow fleyes all day to get ready. 😆

[@TheStreamUrchin1]

dragon tail would work

[@pullmyfinger5127]

When do you think we will start referring as a scratched CD. Love your instructional videos. Wish you would do a articulated crawfish pattern!!!