I have decided to have a go at making a SBS video of one of my favourite flies for Grayling fishing, the Red Tag Jig Bug. It’s a fly initially shown to me by Top England angler, John Emerson of uniqueflies.co.uk and you can buy these flies there ( tied better than mine!). Its a great point fly when bugging for Grayling, and you can vary the pattern with different thorax, rib and bead colours. I even do an extreme variant in pink that has picked me up the odd fish when they tire of the green. The only constant is the tag of #5 GloBrite floss.
Materials you will need for the standard tie here are:
- Hook: Hanak H400BL Jig Hook #10-14
- 3.5mm Slotted Tungsten Bead ( or sized to suit)
- Body: Dark Olive Glister Dubbing or Lite Brite.
- Tag: #5 GloBrite Floss
- Rib: Medium Red Wire
- Hackle: 1 x CDC Feather ( full type- not long and thin)
- Thorax : Dark Olive Glister Dubbing
You can also tie it without the hackle- I prefer it with, and you can make the hackle more pronounced by doubling over the feather and using both sides of the stem.
I hope you enjoy the video. I found getting the lighting right very tricky, under the tying lamp it was too shiny and there was a yellow cast and without the light the colours were more natural but its a bit dark. I have opted for the latter for now.
A really nice video and I will have a try at tying this one. Good to see a material list too. Looking forward to the next one.
Ronnie
Great wee vid there Ken.. Looking forward to seeing more of these. I might have another go myself when I get a decent camera.
Yeah camera is a problem- I just used my wee digital stills camera but it was hard to get a decent focus and the lighting was hard to control. Like you I probably would need a decent video camera, but cant justify the cost right now. The GoPro wasnt any good for it as it cant focus close enough and being almost a fish eye lens you get my ugly mug in the shot too!
nice fly,could you please tell me the name of the whip finish tool and the dubbing twister.
cheers,tommy.
The whip finish tool is just a standard cheap one- think it was a Stillwater or Veniard one or something like that. Nothing special. I don’t use one all the time, I often just use my fingers depends how ie. feel on the day/if I can find it on my bombsite of a desk (delete as appropriate lol). As regards the dubbing twister, mines is a pretty expensive one ( it was a present!) its a C&F Design Rotary Twister Plus I think it was called. C&F do two, this one has the heavy bearing spinner part the other (C&F Design Dubbing Twister Plus) doesn’t. Both are a bit fancy as dubbing twisters go, the Rotary model is £35 (!!!!) the standard one still pretty dear at £16. You can buy a cheap dubbing twister that will no doubt do the same job for £3 or £4. But the C+F one is quite cool!
Materials bought !!!!, now to find the time to tie some up,, Great video Kenny/
John
Glad you like it, hope they catch you plenty!