Tying Tuesday: Excessive and Low Patterns

This week’s Tying Tuesday incorporates a large attractor dry, a deep-diving nymph, and a cool tube fly. (A reader lately requested a tube-fly video, and we goal to please.) We kick issues off with a video from McFly Angler, who teaches us to tie the legendary Madam X, designed by Doug Swisher within the Nineteen Eighties. It is a nice attractor sample, and one which works properly in a dry-dropper setup. Subsequent, Travis Hanson from AvidMax walks us via the steps to create a cool caddis nymph that’s extraordinarily buggy. Lastly, we serve up one thing slightly totally different: a tube fly. The excellently named Håkan Karsnäser exhibits you the right way to set the tube within the vise, after which the right way to costume it up. The tip result’s a chic tube streamer for salmon or trout.

Madam X
Hook: Curved-shank nymph/dry hook (right here a Risen 2312), measurement 12.
Thread: Yellow, 6/0 or 140-denier.
Underbody/tail: Pure deer hair, cleaned and stacked.
Physique: Tying thread, flattened.
Wing: Pure deer hair, cleaned and stacked..
Legs: Speckled yellow MFC Centipede Legs, medium.
Adhesive: UV-cure resin (right here Solarez Extremely Skinny).

Iced Apple Caddis
Hook: Shrimp/caddis-pupa hook (right here a TMC 2487), measurement 12 or 14.
Bead: Silver bead, 5/32-inch.
Thread: Olive, 8/0 or 70-denier.
Physique: Olive Micro Tubing.
Underbody: Silver Veevus Holographic Tinsel, medium.
Wing:  Brown Olive Scud Dub and Olive Ice Dub, combined.
Thorax: Brown Olive Scud Dub and Olive Ice Dub, combined.
Collar: Wapsi SLF Squirrel Dub.
Instruments: Dubbing whirl, dubbing brush.



Silver Gray Tube Fly
Tube: Professional Sportfisher FlexiTube Clear.
Weight: Silver, 30mm.
Thread: White GSP.
Rear Hackle: Grizzly Mushy Hackle.
Underwing: White marble fox.
Flash: Silver Angel Hair.
Entrance Hackle: Coq de Leon hen cape feather.
Wing: Pure silver fox.
Topping: Peacock herl.
Sides: Fake Jungle Cock, small.
Adhesive: Superglue.
Head: Silver cone.