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La Fontaine's Dancing Caddis 0

 

Think you have seen every type of Caddis Dry Fly? Think again. Dave shows you how to tie a simple but unusual style....La Fontaine's Dancing Caddis.

Hook - Gamakatsu C16-B - #14 https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/gamakatsu-c16-b-crippled-emerger?variant=33313411367011

Thread - Uni-Thread 6/0 - Olive Dun https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/uni-thread?variant=8801327415395

Body - Snowshoe Rabbit Foot Dubbing - Brown Olive https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/snowshoe-rabbit-foot-dubbing?variant=39292828811363

Wing - All Purpose Deer Hair - Natural https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/all-purpose-deer-hair?variant=8759851712611

Hackle - Whiting Saddle - Barred Dark Ginger https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/full-bronze-cape-1?variant=8784609017955

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Dave's Rusty Spinner 0

Dave ties a very basic Rusty Spinner and describes the value of tying them sparse. He vaguely describes the entomology behind the spinner stage.

Hook - Firehole 419 - #14 https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/firehole-sticks-419?variant=51165288836

Thread - Uni Thread 6/0 - Dark Brown https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/uni-thread?variant=8801327546467 Tail - Mayfly Tails - White https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/mayfly-tails?variant=8179625230435

Abdomen - Turkey Biots - Rusty Brown https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/turkey-biots?variant=8771629154403

Wings - Sparkle Emerger Yarn & Krystal Flash https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/sparkle-emerger-yarn?variant=8643376775267 https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/krystal-flash?variant=39638906756

Thorax - UV2 Fine & Dry - Rust https://eastrosebudflyandtackle.com/products/uv2-fine-and-dry?vhttps://youtu.be/-Rg1MlcFW3sariant=5329259200553

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Tying a Chris Mihulka Bass Fly

Tying a Chris Mihulka Bass Fly 0

 

Hi everyone, Dave here with East Rosebud Fly and Tackle, welcome. Today I'm going to tie for you what I think is a tremendously innovative fly. I have to give credit to Mr. Mihulka from Oregon. He developed this fly to fish for smallmouth bass primarily. It's also a pretty decent carp fly. But what really intrigues me about this fly is his use of a hook that you really don't think of for anything but maybe a steel worm.

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Tying a Clouser Minnow

Tying a Clouser Minnow 0

Hey everybody, this is John Wood, and I am coming to you from East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in beautiful Billings, Montana. In this video, I am gonna do for you a Clouser minnow, I'm gonna try to tie it the way Bob Clouser are intended for this fly to be tied, because the fly is good for everything from in small sizes, bluegills all the way up to anything you can fish for in the salt water and everything in between, I have started tying these on to saltwater hooks, and the hook that I'm really loving right now is this Umpqua X-Seris SS-420. We're gonna do this one on the size two. The threat I'm gonna be using is a Uni 6/0 red, I really like that 6/0, it's big enough to do what we need to do without building up too much bulk, the eyes will be a medium brass eye, and I like these brass eye as opposed to painted lead eye, is because the Clouser tends to bounce around on a lot of debris and the eyes are very exposed and the paint will just chip right off, so we put that paint on there and then it just chips off for the Belly.

We're gonna be using the white along the edge of a natural Northern Buck Tail, and I'm gonna put all flash in the middle, which is olive a Crystal Flash that will go on before we put the wing on, which will be a light olive buck tail. And again, we'll use the pair from along the outside age of the buckets, Let's get started

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Tying LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa

Tying LaFontaine's Emergent Sparkle Pupa 0

Hey everybody, this is John Wood and I'm coming to you once again from East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in beautiful Billings, Montana. In this video, I am gonna tie for you a stable pattern, it should be in everybody's box, if you're fishing in the Rocky Mountain West, and it is Gary LaFontaine's emergenting spark pupa. This is a surface caddis fly that imitates the emerging adult, and it's just... It's a spectacular fly that's based on years and years of underwater research and observation by Gary LaFontaine and his team, and it comes from... It's listed in several of his books, Caddis Flies obviously, Trout Flies, Proven Patterns, and also in the Dry Fly New Angles, but if you're gonna fish Caddis hatches and you're fishing a Caddis Hatch, you can't get them to take a curtain fly like the standard elk hair caddis is probably because they're keyed in on the mergers, this fly right here is the ticket, will do it for you, so this one we're gonna tie for you today, I'm gonna tie it on a size 16 Timeco 100 hook, just your standard dry fly hook, any standard dry fly hook will do for this by the shuck on this, and the bubble is a burnt orange antron yarn, and you can see it's a pretty bright color, the body is a combination in his mixed of bright green insect Green, antron and insect green hair dubbing.
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Tying a Goggle Eyed Damsel

Tying a Goggle Eyed Damsel 0

However, one Dave here, East Rosebud Fly and Tackle in Billings, Montana. Good morning, it's June, which means it's a damsel fly season. How I developed the pattern, I wanna call it a goggle eyed damsel fly, this is a light damsel meant to be fish right underneath the surface, to be chain eyes and a little bit of a epoxy on the wing case. Give it just a little bit of weight. So when you quit retrieving, it slowly dies when you start treating, it picks back up, and I'm using the Daiichi swimming larva hook, and that's going to help with the motion on this particular fly... Let's see, thread-wise, I'm just gonna be using some Uni 6/0 Olive little strip of 0.25 lead weight that's just to help make sure at this damsel floats in the right direction. And then for the tail and the hackle, I'm gonna be using this Whiting soft hackle with the Chickabou on it, is actually a tremendous value, there's a ton of feathers on this, you can buy the Chickabou separately, but then you don't get all the soft tackle in here, so this fly is dedicated to Dr. Whiting and his products and his Chickabou soft hackle, the body is just Midge Diamond Braid just to wrap on that.

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