Tying a fly called The Poor Man's Gnat Fly Tying tutorial | Ívar's Fly Workshop

[@waikarimoana]

Great work, nice tie.

Thanks!!

[@daelpixphotography]

I'm in the UK and this fly is similar to the Black Gnat which calls for a black cock tail, black floss/thread body, black hen hackle, and a pair of grey wingslips. Can also be tied as a dry fly. Both flies are used for river brown trout.

Thanks for sharing the information! This version of it is from myself tied with simply the only materials I had at the time and they were the cheapest I could get as a 12 yr old boy at the time. :)

[@FlyTyer1948]

Ivar, you must have very large gnats in Iceland. :-) Where I fished in Massachusetts & Maine (northeastern US), black gnat patterns like this worked extremely well, but they were tied in sizes 16 to smaller than I could see like 28. These were to imitate our evil, horrible biting gnats. I think yours may be larger but don’t bite. Yes? I don’t know what my KZbin feed is doing. I just found this video buried far down in my subscriber feed after noticed your videos haven’t been appearing lately. Matt’s have been showing regularly in my “new” feed but yours haven’t. ???? Maybe I have too many subscriptions? I’ll try to catch up. Hope you are well.