Alright so I just went out and bought myself some spey hooks so I could begin tying some spey flies since I've never tied them before. I have seen all CC's posts on his spey patterns and they are all awesome but i have no clue where to start with even picking one of them! Is there any simpler but yet still well effective patterns for spey flies or are CC's patterns not AS hard as im thinking and i should attempt them anyways
Heya bro...they're not that hard...sequence, tension, and less is more...
I will post some step by step for you when I have some time...perhaps you have a particular pattern you want to tie...
I tied the Undertaker salmon fly as a spey version...simple body!!! The trick is tying in the wings....
Stay tuned, see what I can do
cc
Hackle...burned hackle or heron...sometimes mallard flank...SEE its all relative which you know something about studying chem and Heisenberg etc...
cc
Hahah, two electrons cannot occupy the same space at the same time ?
But yeah relative in the fact that researching what you want to know about it is definitely true. Thanks for the info, everything will definitely help in attempting speys!
Still havent decided on a particular pattern yet but ill make that decision after the midterm exam lol
for sure.there is no mystery or need for any such reverence for the fly thing...the spey is simply a type of streamer or baitfish presented often by "swinging" the fly so that it angles down river with the broadside facing the waiting fish,hopefully tied with material that have inherent movement in them(arctic fox,heron,marabou,schlappen,rhea) that will undulate in small currents within main currents,however the spey as other "streamers" go, can be twitched ,jigged dead drifted,and most effectively in water temps now ,they can be stripped across slow pools .Traditional spey patterns are now updated by the tyer using more "moving" material.Saddle hackles can be short and stiff,so the contemporary tyer looks for or creates his own "moving" material
