I watched a Dave Whitlock video lastnight….

[Mike Anderson]

Well, how’d I do?

[anonymous]

Better than I’ve done!

Did you put the weed guard on?

[Mike Anderson]

I omitted the weed guard which I think is an essential part of the fly body… I’m just getting the hang of stacking and flaring right now and was in a hurry to see results. I think I’ll keep at this stuff.

[Zach Matthews]

Hahah, you missed the center a bit Mike but I’d say that’s a hell of a nice fly.

[bryan hulse]

Pretty sweet, Mike.

[paul taylor]

excellent work mike!

[Mike Anderson]

“stacking and spinning deer hair is something i definitely would like to learn to do.”

Me too! ;D

[paul taylor]

well mike, it looks like you did a pretty good job already!

[Zach Matthews]

I taught myself to spin deer hair a few years ago.

[bryan hulse]

Zach,

Nice mouse. . .lemming. . .rodent 😉

When you guys tie(or buy)mouse patterns do you do so mostly with bass or big trout in mind? Mouse patterns are common for big trout in AK. I’ve read that taimen like them, too. See them all the time among the bass ties in catalogs. But last year I saw a contest show on OLN and the winners were out west and chucking and stripping them across a small river for relatively big, but not huge, trout.

What part of a deer do you use for the best results?

Bryan

[Mike Anderson]

Nice Mouse Zach. I don’t use mice but I have a few. I have had Trout hit a Zoo Cougar like a Bass while it was resting on the surface though. That was on the Caney.

Zach I don’t know which is harder, Deer hair flies or complex winged dries that will sit in the water right…. I hope to become efficient at both someday. Whitlock’s diving Frog is what really inspired me to get into Hair flies. That thing looks soooo real. At this time I don’t have a lot of motivation to tie dries.

I’m finding stacking is much harder then just spinning. the problem I run into with the multi colored ones is you don’t know exactly what it’s going to look like till you trim it.
In a way Deer Hair is to fly fishing what hard plastic is to gear fishing. You can sculpt it to look like anything you want. I’ve even seen a fly that looked exactly like a Rainbow colored Rapala jointed minnow that was made from nothing but deer hair and hooks

[none]

Nice scuplin!
Which DVD did you watch? Most of his videos are still only VHS?

I met Dave at a fly fishing show (actually the dinner on the evening before the show). Very nice guy.

Jay

[Mike Anderson]

It was the Bass Flies VHS. Got both videos for $10. Yea, I still have a VCR….

[none]

Hmm… I always wanted to see Whitlock’s bass bug tying videos…
But you guys have NTSC system, here in Europe we use PAL system so that’s incompatible.

Is it available on DVD or can it be captured on DVD?

Jay

[Carter Simcoe]

buy a region free dvd player, not that expensive.

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