How to tie A Bass Fly
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what's up guys welcome back to fly tying
Friday today we are tying three very
maybe three probably to two very simple
bass streamers to get you started for
this spring very very simple us one of
them is a is actually andreia
sanderson's c CF bait fish which stands
for craft for basically craft for a
couple eyes and you're good to go and
maybe a little bit of crystal flash if
you want it and then I'll be tying one
also in the Thai language can't I just
your standard zonker cuz these flies are
both really fast and they're kind of
meant to be flies that you can crank out
really really quick and be done with and
not have to think twice about but that
will catch a ton of fish for you so
let's get started okay first off we're
gonna tie this craft for a bait fish
super super simple fly like I said
earlier all that we're gonna have is a
we have a must add stinger hook you type
basically whatever you want in here
we'll have some white to tendineae
thread see this okay and basically all
we're gonna do is we're gonna have a
thread base down okay
just like that slide thread bays and I
don't think this is what I'm Draya
Sanderson does but this is what I do so
this is what I'm going to do all we do
is we tie in a little bit of silver s
tats okay we're gonna wrap that up we're
gonna wrap just like this to have a nice
flashy little underbody
just like that
again this is a very quick fly so what
we'll do is we'll tie that down grab our
scissors cut that real quick just like
that okay and what we're gonna do is
we're basically gonna have some Rainey's
extra-long craft fur and we're gonna
basically just have one nice clump on
top and one nice clump on bottom but
they're gonna be facing this way because
we're gonna fold them back and then
we're gonna put some eyes on there as
well so what I'll do is I'll grab my so
this fly is going to right hook point
down cuz then way to that hook will
naturally turn it down and so you want
the white on the bottom so we'll do is
we'll tie in this white first and you
want a good nice long craft fur for this
because you want the length of the body
to be pretty solid and Rainey's has this
extra long craft fur that I tie with
that I absolutely love you can get it at
most of your shops if you're in Utah and
other guys that fly fish we'd have some
so basically what we'll do it'll take
this craft fur we're gonna flip this
hook upside down and we'll tie this in
the opposite way of the way that we're
actually gonna have it resting so we're
gonna tie this back okay just like that
so now that that's sitting on the bottom
just like that
we're gonna cut this a little bit of
excess off like that and I'm gonna kind
of crank pretty hard on this just to
make sure we're not gonna be losing at
any point so we're gonna fold this back
over and we're gonna do the exact same
with some olive green craft fur as well
same step same everything I'm just gonna
cut it off our fur get rid of some of
these under fibers just like that those
are short and those are gonna make tying
a lot a lot tougher cuz they're gonna
kind of get in the way and they're gonna
make it a little bit harder to tie down
so we're gonna do is we're going to tie
this part in right here just like that
nice and tight and you see those are
just directly on top of each other
I'll get my scissors
cut that excess okay so right here you
could just fold them back and have the
body that you want right you're not
gonna tie it in quite yet
so what I'm gonna do right now is I'm
gonna add some of this red crystal flash
cuz I love red crystal flash adds a nice
contrast it kind of helps that wounded
baitfish look a little bit more like a
wounded bait fish so I'll grab two
strands and I'm gonna fold them over so
it'll become four strands on this and
I'm trying to put them straight back
they don't really need to sit on either
side particularly because the this is
crafter's gonna basically get folded
over the top of it anyways and it's
gonna just shut through a little bit
okay so just like that okay so what
we're gonna do now is we're going to
fold this craft fur back just like that
we're gonna wrap in front of it fold
this part back I'm gonna wrap in front
of that okay so what that'll do is that
create profile I'm gonna pull this off
the hook just to make sure I can get
this on either side of the hook okay so
as you see with these folded back a
little bit that creates a nice long bait
fish profile and we want this to kind of
cover over some of that flash we don't
want to be super separated we kind of
want to mend in two to mesh into one
piece right and you get a little bit of
that crystal flesh shown through so I'm
gonna add some wraps up here and as you
see that's not going anywhere so what
I'm gonna do actually is that's
basically the whole body of the fly and
you can stop there if you want but I
like to add some living eyes to this
just to make it a little bit more
realistic little nicer to look at in my
opinion put that okay pull all this back
just like so and then all that I do is
I'll set this on its side now that's
sharp okay sit that on its side and
we'll grab some of these little
holographic eyes and you only need a
little bit of glue for this
basically all we're gonna do is we're
gonna add a little dab of superglue onto
each side of this and down to each part
of the eye so this will just go a little
drop right there now I add a little drop
to the back of this eye like so okay I
set that there I press that right on
solid like that like so see so I'll sit
there and then we'll go to the other
side of the fly make sure that our
fibers are placed one thing with this
eye does do which is kind of helpful cuz
it'll actually hold that craft fur in
place and kind of help make that head
profile okay so I'll add a little dab of
glue on the eye and on the spot we're
gonna put the I know just stick that
down just like so just like that and
that right there is a craft for a bait
fish like as you see super super simple
fly to tie really really effective if I
can find some scissors I can cut it
there we go
I'll cut that and typically you can fish
these for whatever you want they'll
catch trout will catch bass they'll
catch all kinds of stuff I probably fish
mine more for bass than anything so and
best do a great job of tearing apart
flies so I'll that add a little dab of
glue there but as you can see that's a
nice long slender bait fish can easily
become a brown trout perch you name it
so that's Andreas's craft for bait fish
and then this next fly is extremely
simple nothing really fancy about it at
all but it is a super effective fly that
I fish all the time for again every
species that eats fish makes you am
locked on a hook here here we go
so again I don't tie my flies in like
the classical you know zonker way I like
to have a little bit of flash with him
so what I do is I'll do a thread base
channel a thread base here on the back
half of the hook and I'm gonna use some
of this white or silver polish anneal so
I'll cut off a nice little piece of this
because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
pull me this up the body of this fly so
what I'll do is I will so this is gonna
be all of in white is what this one's
gonna be it's gonna be pretty large a
nice little clump of meat for whatever
fish wants to eat it so what I'll do is
I will tie in my polar chenille on the
back just like so and then I will grab
my piece of zonker which I want this fly
to be kind of long just so that it's a
good size to kind of appeal to a couple
different species I could even fish this
for pike so I'll do is I'll tie in my
soccer strip just like so I'll fold this
back add a couple thread wraps there
just kind of help hold that back up for
me so I'll wrap all the way up to the
front and you can add barbell eyes to
this if you want I don't particularly
add all that smash to it
I feel like this polish nails already
snazzy enough so basically all that I'll
do is I'm gonna wrap up this polish nail
I want touching wraps with this as I go
back I'm pulling each wrap backwards to
make sure that it's going the direction
that I want to go and it's not getting
all crazy on me like so
just like so so now that I have that
wrapped up I'll tie that off twist it
cut it I'll kind of get some these loose
fibers backwards so there you see that
you have this nice flashy underbelly so
what you'll do is you I'm actually gonna
pinch and separate these so that my
honker sure doesn't trap any of that
I'll fold this over place it where I
want to tie it in and just like that tie
that in and it'll cut my anchor strip
and this has this like a magnum strip so
it's absolutely massive most rabbit
strips aren't going to be as thick as
this but it works for me and that right
there is a simple super super simple
bass fly has some nice flash has a nice
profile if you look it on this side
totally looks like a small bait fish it
could be a little baby bass baby trout
maybe whatever and I'll tie this in I'll
just throw a whip finish up front pull
that tight cut it and add a little bit
of superglue so it doesn't fall apart on
me nice little glue and that one's good
to go okay so we have this and we have a
craft for beef fish China where I put it
what did I put it there it is so the
eyes definitely give the craft verb a
official a much more realistic look and
the zonker but the zonker is a super
suggestive pattern that can catch fish
just about anywhere I mean both of them
can't honestly but this is kind of like
a tried and true classic fly right here
that is caught fish all over the place
so yep okay and that is it for our
flight time Friday this month oh yeah I
forgot to bring it up so I'm going to
Alaska this week I'm gonna be there I'm
flying out on Sunday to catch a can
and I'll be in Ketchikan from Sunday
until Tuesday next weeks I'm gonna be
there for about nine days so I gave
myself a day travel either way and then
seven days of fishing super hard up
there the steel headers just starting to
get there and show up and run up into
these small rivers so it should be a
really really really cool set of videos
I'm actually gonna do a semi live series
so every single day that I fish I'm
gonna shoot a video and I'll be dropping
those the week after I when I get back
for the whole week every day so you guys
can kind of follow along and kind of
feel like what that experience what it
was
feel what that experience was like for
me so it should be super fun I'm fun of
them staying with my buddy Kevin boots
who's being a stud taking the week off
from work and he we're gonna go mess
around all over Ketchikan and then maybe
take a ferry over to Prince of Wales and
fish the thorne River which is a
world-famous steelhead river as well but
I'm super super excited so stay tuned
for that this Monday's gonna be a really
cool video as well so you haven't we
have that to look forward to but I'll be
traveling on Sunday so thanks for
watching this episode of fighting Friday
I'm not a hundred percent sure if we'll
have one for next Friday
just forewarning I might be able to do
type some steel head flies with keV at
there will be one next Friday it'll be a
steel head steel head fly but yeah so
this will be the first episode where you
guys see me fishing on a river do I know
what I'm doing on a river maybe do I not
know what I'm doing on a river maybe
you'll probably have to watch and find
out maybe I'm really good at it maybe I
suck but yeah thanks for watching like
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your friends that are too lazy to tie
really compact complex flies I know that
I'm too lazy to type complex flies I
tried some way to to fancy of flies
yesterday it took way too long and I'm
getting back to my roots tie and super
simple bugs but yeah and later
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