Tying The Tips Up with Kelly Galloup

[@aricheath3670]

Really well done. One of the most unique flies there is. Locally, I've used a dark olive with red flash in our lakes for large mouth bass. As a matter of fact most of your streamers work good for them, this just shines above the rest.

[@turner427]

Thanks for all the awesome videos! I’m very new to fly tying. I have one of these credit card “multi-tool” things with the 6-14mm hex head, bottle opener, can opener and the letter opener. The letter opener almost mimics the V of scissors to clean off glue from your bobbin real nice and doesn’t mess up the scissors. “Hope that helps someone out 😉”

[@tfisher5685]

Thanks a bunch for all the instruction and tips. You have helped me improve my tying considerably.

[@blueskyfpv]

Thanks for the great patterns. I know this was more for brown trout, but it is a DEADLY pike fly. In the last 4 years 've caught over a dozen 25 pound+ pike in northern Saskatchewan and countless in the 7 - 15 range using an olive variation of this. They take me a while to tie, but I always have them with me when go for pike. Sorry to slime up your trout patterns ;-)

[@cosmiccharlie8606]

Grate looking fly sir thank you for your time and I truly enjoyed the fly contest and I cant wait to sind in my flys

[@ericolsen2515]

Cool fly. I'd like to hear more about how you fished this at pyramid lake and how it did. I fish out there all the time

[@RyanWaxman]

Hi Kelly, my office is on the river, I often spend an hour or two at a time throughout the day working a few hundred yards of the bank. I like to travel light, so I have small boxes, they often become overstuffed. Is smashing streamers into a box a bad idea, does it ruin the action of the feathers? Or should they be stored like a parking garage. If that’s the case I may only be able to bring a handful of options. I am anti gear, I liked to grab my rod, 1x, clippers and box of flies and a net(sometimes). It would be great to see a video on proper streamer storage for walking and boating. Also a big thanks to you for helping me up my game, from the of the river of lost souls, thank you.

[@SmolHatLogan]

I stuff all my streamers in a little box. I mean, we toss em in the water and soak them... the feathers and hair get "reset" in my experience once they get wet.

[@K3Flyguy]

Love the videos! May I ask, would it be possible to show the fly in the water so we could actually see the action!!! I think it would be extremely helpful! I know it would add complexity to your videos but I certainly would be amazing! Thanks for what you do!!!

[@etamaman]

Man that makes me so hungry to fish my local smallies!!! I need to get outta the house.....🤪🤤😬😵 Guess I better add one of these patterns too. Yer Angler Fish has been da shizz.

[@isaiah4510]

Kelly is a legend. Have some questions/advice for clear/low and or smaller streams? I fish Erie tribs in PA and often fight highly pressured fish (spooked) in less than ideal conditions

[@repentorperish1386]

Me too! Anyone's advice would be good at this point

[@lechium02]

Kelly, what is the story of the cabinets in the background with the card catelog style drawer handles? Did you build that? Making lots of small drawers is such a pain in the ass...

[@TheSlideinn]

Stephen, they came from the Paul H Young fly rod company. Probably built in the 40s or 50s?? I used to share a building with them in Michigan and they were a gift from one of the Youngs. Kelly

[@mikeyvanryswick8818]

I was attempting to visit your site in order to buy materials for this fly and the mini dungeon, but I am blocked by the web server any time I try to access it. Is there a problem with the links?

[@mikeyvanryswick8818]

It seems that the word fence firewall that your website uses is generating a false positive and blocking me because it believes I'm a bot due to the number of requests sent in a short amount of time. This entails that the firewall is blocking legitimate users like myself on occasion.

[@SkidinDingo]

I would imagine a spun deer hair back body with a schlappen or hackle wound through it like those bomber dry flies people swing for salmon and steelhead it'd look really good. Im going to try that so i dont have to wait for a shipment of popper heads

[@TheSlideinn]

That is actually how Kelly tied the first one. It doesn't act quite the same action wise, but it is another alternative to the foam poppers for sure!

[@SkidinDingo]

@@TheSlideinn ah very cool. I have also seen people spin foam, they cut 2mm foam in to little strips and it spins just like deer hair, i bet that would be a good option, too.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Deceiver Tails

[@academicmailbox7798]

I am looking back for an actual Deceiver (single or articulated 'double') tutorial in the archive. It seems that of all of the 'original' or 'classic' streamer (or bait fish) patterns that have been covered at various times. There is no segment that ever found itself dedicated to a conversation about the Deceiver fly. It is just that (myself not being anything like a streamer angler). I constantly hear these references dropped here and there in the classes. To a 'deceiver' this. Or to a 'deceiver' that. And for at least several years. It flew over my head.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Lately however, I decided to go back and just survey for myself. The sheer range of different interpretations of the Deceiver fly that have been done out there. And there are a lot.

[@academicmailbox7798]

And it's not only the hackles used for the Deceiver tails either. In terms of natural fly tying materials for streamers. The whole subject of the natural hair materials. The so-called 'buck tail' as a hair material. That kind of dominated fly tying for at least three decades. Not so much today. Because there are other things available. And buck tail has retreated back into its own niche in the spectrum. However, it was hard to find anything that wasn't buck tail. It is a material that I have had a small number of successful single hook patterns with, over the years. Flies that I don't fish as much now as much as I used (however, when layering a lot of soft materials, or synthetics together in a pattern, I do still like to sneak some fibres of buck tail in there someplace).

[@academicmailbox7798]

It is a while now, since I have seen one of the classes by Kelly that does have the buck tail material in it. The Deceiver fly is not a fly I had ever discovered. Not at least, until very recently. As old and classic a style of fly the Deceiver is. I think I started to 'trip' over it, when listening to some of these classes. I would hear a mention here and there. Never really knew what a real Deceiver fly looked like. From what I can see, from my survey. The Deceiver fly pattern is a heck of a nice fly. I've been looking at different versions now for a few weeks, and there are lots and lots of aspects of the fly and it's design that I like. And it's not only the buck tail material, or the deceiver tail feathers. There is far more going on in that fly, that we might actually give credit to.

[@academicmailbox7798]

I was looking at a class on how to make a 'mini' version of the bang tail. Which was a stacked marabou and wool composite design. A lot of things going on in that fly. A very 'light weight' fly to cast and swim through the water as Kelly explained. And I wonder the extent to which a 'bang tail' (or the other 'flat liner' pattern from back in 2018 class, which shows a 'bang tail' in the introduction too). I wonder the extent to which the bang tail or the flat liner, is an evolution from some origin point. Around where the Deceiver fly started out from. Except in the 'bang tail' pattern. We've gone away from pure buck tail in the dressing. And it has moved to the wool, marabou and synthetic build up. With the small rear articulated hook, on to which the hackle tails are attached. I was wondering to what extent that a 'bang tail' owes something of it's concept to the original Deceiver. Because the interpretations of the original deceiver I can survey. They are many and varied out there now.

[@imaxfli]

EVERY Fly-fisher should be happy to have Public-Lands and know which Political Party takes it away(here in Wisconsin State sold thousands of acres to private ownership under Governor Scott "Dork" Walker)!

[@jparryprodeal]

why you always lick yr fly material, When they are manufactured, no cleanliness is maintain, ppl drop on the floor , all kind of shits get onto it, chemical n etc. it will be very bad for yr health.