Very elegant. There is way too much trumped-up mystique and dogma around fly tying and patterns. I now believe that an old character here in NSW (and other places there were similar people) who only ever used one dry and one nymph. He caught fish anywhere. But we love the flies and tying them and experimenting of course. :-)
@DrAlexTies
3 жыл бұрын
You have hit the nail on the head there Terry - I could catch 90% of my fish with an Adams and a Pheasant Tail Nymph. That is not to say I won’t enjoy tying and fishing the thousands of other patterns out there though!
@kalikasurf
3 жыл бұрын
A stripped feather stem rather than wire................brilliant! A new tool for the toolbox!
@tylerpaquette9376
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant pattern love the impression on the waters surface mr Lund really had the thinking cap on for this one did you soak the hackle you stripped very nice tie
@JamesMcCutcheon
3 жыл бұрын
Nice tie video. This fly is reminiscent of Catskills flies of the early 1900's New York USA area.
@DrAlexTies
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks James! It’s of a similar vintage. I have read that in the 1890s, Frederick Halford sent a large consignment of the latest English chalkstream flies to Theodore Gordon, patterns from which the Quill Gordon was then developed - so it seems there was sharing of knowledge and tying styles across the Atlantic, then adapted for local waters.
@JamesMcCutcheon
3 жыл бұрын
@@DrAlexTies Wow interesting. These English Flies are amazing. I recently purchased all the appropriate materials to learn how to tie some North Country Spiders. I enjoy history as much as I do tying and Fishing for Trout. Thank you for the great video.
@regkane-Pluvis
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Dr Alex, I totally agree the flies should be to catch fish not fishermen.
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