Unintentional ASMR 🎣 Calmly Crafting Fish Bait (relaxing voice, focused close-up fly tying)

norm norm ander here I'd like to demonstrate next a classic streamer pattern called the spruce fly this particular pattern is kind of near and dear to my heart because this is the fly on which I caught my very first steelhead so let's go and see how its put together ok first the materials were going to use you start out with one of alec jackson's spay fly hooks this is a number 5 or number 7 I haven't quite figured out his numbering system yet we're going to use some peacock curl now the original pattern called for peacocks soared for the tail but we're going to use the tips of this hurl this part right here for the tail and this for the body we're going to use some red floss this is regular riot ring on floss put it on a bobbin it's a lot easier to handle and then the wings and the hackle we're gonna use some beautifully marked badger hackle it's got a lot of variation in it pretty nice neck there we'll start out as we usually do by dressing the hook attach our thread up here at the front a little ways back from the eye bind that loop die down nice and tight ok no let's run our thread down aways in fact we're gonna run it down just about to the point of the hook you know right about there very precise take about three pieces of peacock herl strip them off the eye here and we line up those tips actually they come that way pretty well lined up so we turn this around and we'll lay in our tail rather carefully like so ok and then we can just run that forward about halfway up to the eye and even just a little bit further yeah that'd be about right okay next I'm going to take some floss and we're going to tie that in right here nice and careful like and trim it off put your bobbin out of the way use your nor vise very easy smooth rolling that floss body right down to the tail and come back and forth a couple times and build up a bit of a taper to it it's a little long there we go back and take that out so know we're right up to the part where the hurl body it's going to take over so we tie in our floss trim it off next we're going to take our hurl not a bad idea guys to throw in a half hitch before we do this next step here when you're spinning your hurl and thread together it's a good idea to do that every time spin up your hurl like that and make a chenille out of it run it forward little little ways spinning up a little more a little bit further forward that's about right they'll come in and tie that off nice and firm like down there and clip it off now we're ready for the wings what I've got here is a matched pair of badger ackles and the way I do it is I'll take these and I'll put them face-to-face in other words the concave side is outwards you line up the tips you can hold them here so that the wing is going to be right to the end of the tail pinch it there clip that the length and knock out the loose ones by the way I do it is I'll take and pinch these together and tie the two wings on at the same time right on top of the hook nice and firm like and they'll splay out just beautiful like so perfect let's secure that with a half hitch we've got another badger hackle a little bit larger than the Lynx and we're going to take and prepare that properly strip it back a little bit and clip that end off tie this on tight back to where the wings are and then come back for work with your thread secure it with a half hitch we'll pick up the hemostat here grab hold of the tip of that hackle and we're going to line that forward very carefully about four or five turns okay bring your bobbin back tie in our hackle nice and firm like you clip that off the neat trick is to turn this upside down and then you can have hitch against that upturned eye you don't slip off okay I'm going to tilt these hackles back a bit and then we're going to wind over them so want those back about a 45 degree angle okay bring your thread forward a little bit so I got a long errant hackle fiber there that's just not gonna do this is supposed to be a pretty fly okay upside down and then you can very carefully put a nice neat little tapered head on it so notice that's upside down so it doesn't slip off clip that off there you go guys I know I'm Norland ER here again I would like to show you what has become a very favorite fly for fishing silver salmon up in Alaska I call it a bunny clauser it really works well it's very easy fly to tie fly typically is tied on about a size number to hook what we're gonna use here as a right McGill number two got one and we set that little beauty in there it's a nice heavy hook thread I'm gonna use is called flat wax nylon it's a bright hot pink color we're gonna start up here at the front take a few wraps trim the thread off it's pretty strong you want to use your scissors to cut it round trying to pop it off next I'm going to use some of this stuff this is we call it a braid it's a kind of a mylar silver pearlescent material you get that down at the artsy craftsy store got a little piece off the way I do this guys this I'm going to take and just fold it around the hook and tie it on like so you don't have to be terribly fussy spiral to the back of the hook okay now when you cut the tail off this has become the tail of the fly don't cut it off like a paintbrush cut it off at a very shallow angle and then you can brush it out there we go you use a wire brush like this you can brush that out it'll do it for you as soon as it hits the water a couple times but that's what the finish tail is going to look like next I'm going to lay in a little piece of this silver mylar tinsel and that's going to be our rib so we catch that with a soft loop and got a little piece off there and we'll stick that back in our material holder now using the vise one of the neat things about your noir vices you can lay on even thread like this just edge to edge and use it to form the body of your fly okay all the way up there and cut off the piece of tail no take your rib material we'll make a whining check here that's the first wrap and then about five wraps forward come up to the front tie it off like so trim it I'm using some dumbbell eyes these are really heavy little rascals you can see that they they do look like little dumbbells and we'll figure eight those on pretty much back and forth a couple times tighten them I make a Turner to end up with your thread in front of the eyes okay next I'm going to take a piece of bunny strip this is this is a rabbit strip that's hot fluorescent pink and we're gonna cut it about two and a half inches long be about right for this particular size neat trick here is we're gonna tie it in what's called a reverse clauser style where we tie it in upside down and in front of the eyes take a couple nice wraps like so good and firm and then get them back fold this up between the eyes and it makes a nice neat tidy head roll in a half hitch come back to the whip finish and you're good to go guys it's all the rest of it it's just a wonderful pattern it fishes really well cassie Z has a little bit of action and color to it a lot of flash nor nor lander here I'd like to show you my version of a dry damsel this would be the adult configuration of these little beauties let's take a look at what we have here guys that neat has an extended body it's a great-looking profile and when these things are laying on the water I'll tell you the fish will just come up and grab them here's how we go about it first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna create that extended body I've got a really interesting technique here we're gonna use a sewing needle and we'll see we've heated the I have the needle so we can bend it around without breaking it you put that in your nor vise line it up at the top there about like so so when you rotate it it's pretty well centered we're gonna use some dry fly dubbing this is polypropylene it floats real well and of course the color is that of an adult damsel just a little bit of moisture on the needle you can take a wee bit of dubbing like this and it'll catch and spin onto the needle like so there we go and you just run this back and forth so you get the right size length shape whatever you of that adult damsel you can twist a little bit stop right there at the tip of the needle okay there we go now we've got it became one of those distinctive features of these damsels is that other than the bodies being bright blue is that they also have these black segmentations on them how do you do that well I'll show you a really tricky way of doing it you need to use your black marking pin this little sharpie job right here and we'll just start at the backend color that up a bit okay now you skip a bit another band another band another band if you looked at some photographs and they do indeed have four bands okay how do we keep it together I'm going to use some water base head cement this is pretty neat stuff when it dries it's pretty tough still has a little bit of flexibility to it so we're going to take this and we're gonna saturate this body all the way through with this water base hits them in okay put the cork back in it Norman now pinch this pull it off of the needle and there you go guys you got a what's going to be eventually a really great damselfly body we're gonna set that down we need to let it dry for a couple hours in the meantime I'll replace my needle with a little light wire scud hook and normally these things are tied on a fairly small hooks even though it's a pretty good sized bug I like these little short shank hooks gives the fly a great profile and with this extended body we don't need a big long streamer hook I'm using some a dot black thread here pretty straightforward now just run your thread in and out of the gate of the hook and come back a ways here's a body like the one we just made except that this one is dry it looks pretty much the same so we're going to tie it in here not like so whoops there we go nice firm wraps and come back about like so got it okay that's not too complicated but that's about the right right size okay next I'm gonna put a wing on this thing a down wing as they call it even though this is a dry fly for this down wing we're gonna use some northern bear we'll take a little clump that's what this is right here guys just take a little patch it's going to be a very sparse wing we want it to be translucent that's what this is really good for so pull out the underfur like this we'll come back trim it length catch it with a soft loop tie that on nice and firm like there we go perfect okay so it's just about the length of the body let's secure that with a half hitch next we're going to post up now the material I like to use for that is this is craft yarn you get this down at the artsy craftsy store I think he used it for macro one time but a little piece of that'll last a long time little section of macrame yarn the way I do it is I fold the yarn around the shank of the hook I'll come in like this in the front in the back front back and then we post up okay there we go now I want to form the thorax of the fly and that's the little bulb you sparked in the front there so again we're going to use our dry fly dub you take a little pinch of dubbing like this out of here and spin this on to our working thread like so okay tighten it up nicely we'll start the back right back to where that wing is tied in then come forward you may need a nice little fat part right here in front okay guys and I ended up with a thread in front now this will be a parachute hackle and for the hackle we're gonna use this this fancy feather here this is called Kok de Lyonne it's a chicken that I guess originally came from Spain but it's got these nice translucent hackles on a little speckles in them pretty neat stuff okay here's one that's been pulled out it's about the right size and when you're doing these parachute hackles I think it's really important to prep your hackle properly this is where we're going to come in and trim off both sides of the hackle leaving those little bitty nothings in there that way when you tie it in the thread will lock into those and they doesn't slip she come up to the post and then we circle the post and the hackle both end up in front now I'm gonna grab hold of this hackle there pliers here and I'd like that first turn a hackle on that trimmed off section and then we're gonna come around and each time you go around and go underneath the proceeding turn of hackle okay and usually about four turns be about right okay end up on this side a prenup shackle barbs bring the bobbin around capture the quill or stem and tie it on okay pretty neat little trim out what's left about well there you go okay now we want to finish off the thorax and the head of the fly you neat trick that's left a little piece of rubber tubing on my bobbin now use that as a hackle guard and that pushes the hackle out of the way so now we can come in a half hitch that finishes off the thread work again a little bit of dubbing this will finish off the thorax and it'll give the fly its characteristic shape okay I'm going to tighten that dubbing up pretty good up here in front here okay so we'll come back blend it in with what we had before you see how that's working back there guys okay there you go bring your thread forward right up to the high of the hook I'll start my head with a half hitch come back and finish it whip finish and then when we get through we slide that little hackle guard back onto our bobbin that's where we leave it okay nothing much left to do except maybe clip our thread off twist the post trim it and there you go guys again Norman or Lander here next I'd like to show you some ideas for tying the pupa stage of our fall canis this is perhaps the most productive fly that we fish with during September October and early November for our C run cutthroats and some occasional steelhead here in the Northwest the fly itself it's really pretty easy to tie set this aside and we're gonna put in a fairly good-sized hook this is a number eight it's a curved nymph hook and down I and we've got at understand bead on the end of it and the materials were used really pretty straightforward first the body is going to be composed of two different materials we're going to use a mixture of colors here that's called golden stone it's a little bit of sparkle to it looks pretty good and then the front portion of the thing we're going to use a sub rabbit fur that has a little Antron mixed into it again gives it a little bit of sparkle and they'll be a collar on this thing right up next to the bead that's gonna be black rabbit fur now one of the other characteristics that we use on this thing would be the legs and the antennae and for that we're going to use some pheasant rub and I like these with a little brown tips in them this is going to be a wet fly so you want to prep your feathers and we'll do this ahead of time here's one of these pheasant feathers and do us are going to strip off the soft stuff down here towards the base of it be a wet fly so what we'll do is we're gonna tie it in by the tip and I'm gonna preen back some of these Barb's how that smell you're gonna have to use there so works best so you just clip the front off and that's where we're gonna tie it in and get your feathers fixed ahead of time it sure makes it a lot handier I'm gonna be some copper wire for use as a rib now let's start out by dressing the hook I'm using some six thought black thread start up here at the front of the hook please pop that off bring your bobbin in good and tight you all the way to the back like this okay and you might come forward just a little bit I'm going to tie in a piece of copper wire here we use this as our rib go forward do it okay just bring that right down to the very back end like so and we'll set that aside for right now so just cut off a few inches so you grab hold of it and we'll store that up here and your material holder that's a little spring on the back end of the fly the abdomen as it were is going to be composed of this is a synthetic dubbing mix here goes on pretty easy you would just take a little pinch out you know like so give your wife's a spin here and you see how nice and easy that dubs on there never have to use wax or loops or spit or nothing okay well tighten this up a wee bit and it'll start here and then we're gonna go work our way to the back and you can turn this and weave it in and out of the gape the hook so you would get right down there around the bend of the thing okay and bring it forward a bit I mean that's probably about where we want to stop okay then you roll in a half hitch and then the front half of this the thorax area is a tour we're gonna use some darker dubbing and this is a mixture of rabbit fur with a little Antron blended in to give it some sparkle there you go pick some out of the bag there and again you can see doesn't really matter what kind of dubbing you're using or the nor vice they all go on pretty easy okay and again I'm going to tighten that up a bit come back to our midpoint there come forward you build up the thorax region okay and you can secure the three you want to do that when you're working in back of a bead so it doesn't slip off and usually hemostat grab hold of my wire right here and we'll counter wined in other words go to the opposite direction that we laid in the dubbing and then we give it a bit of a segmentation fact just go right up through the thorax with it run that extra wire on next we're gonna put on our wet fly hackle and saw how we prep that you want to tie that in with the shiny side forward a couple turns and secure it I'm gonna wind this on manually and you fold your hackle and then manually bring it around only takes about two turns guys yeah fold that back there we got it that's looking pretty good okay now we're gonna go over that a couple times let that delay back so we're gonna bring that feather back and then wind right over it need up to about there okay so that'll slope that back where it's pretty good now to finish off the thorax bring it right up to the head of the fly use a little rabbit fur hold some of that out of the bag if you paint just like that just roll right on the thread like so back up here tighten it up a bit we run that into place this is a fly that you're gonna actually fish through what we call the holding water and you're gonna fish this on the swing my psyche would your steelhead flies I'm sorry I forgot to finish it off there half fish finish well we can cut it off no guys I ignored nor lander here I'd like to pass on some ideas of one of my favorite Fisheries and that's fishing for bluegill we're going to use some craft foam and create what I'd call a bluegill beetle these little beauties are really great now when you're fishing in the springtime and those those blue gills are on the beds they just can't hardly have anything happen that for bugs them more than seeing some little wiggly leg thing like this on top of them they have a real attitude okay let's take this one out of the Vice I'll show you how we do it I'm gonna use a standard-issue dry fly hook this is about a size 10 you can tie these anywhere size 8 to 12 the larger ones are pretty good in that the smaller fish don't seem to get hung up on them now the material are gonna use to some craft foam you get this down the artsy craftsy store this is about two millimeters thick and we're gonna use some rubber legs you can get these in a variety of colors and things by the way if you tear apart a bungee cord this is what they're composed of these little rubber leg things first thing is to take a piece of foam when we're gonna cut it into a strip about the width of the hook cable okay and the thread I'm going to use this from Danville's flat wax nylon this is a fairly heavy thread and the idea that it does is fairly large diameter heavy so it doesn't cut into that foam the first operation of course is to dress the hook put your bobbin right against the shank of the hook in and out of the game come back up to the front and leave a little bit of room between the eye of the hook and where you stop the threat now we'll take a little strip of foam and we're gonna cut this to a point here in front about like that okay and we'll tie this in firmly right here at the point and then I'm going to spiral back see how I'm making a spiral now that'll roll that foam right on top of the hook see how that cuts in there it just rolls it right up on top this is gonna add some flotation to it and we give as far back as you can the full length of the shank and we're gonna take several firm wraps like so okay now I'm going to reach in and put in a couple half hitches of this tie endpoint there's one there's two and we turn this over you can see how we have a segment effect right there now we're gonna counter wine we're gonna go the opposite direction this when we came forward okay so there see how we can follow the previous wrap like this in that way you maintain the segmentation on that thing I'm not sure that a blue B already is bothered by it that much but what the heck we can do it let's do it come all the way forward and we're gonna secure that with a half-inch up here at the front at this point you can actually slide that around a little bit okay so now we've got it pretty well evened up next we bring this top foam over come up to the front secure it with a few nice firm wraps and then a few not so firm wraps okay and again you can even that up I'm gonna trim this about like so and this will become the head of the fly you clip off the corners here it just makes it look a little bit more artsy craftsy okay now at this point you can level everything that'll kind of slide around the hook so once you have it pretty well leveled out we're going to use some super glue and glue it to the hook so it doesn't slide anymore okay so okay pretty neat stuff be sure to put the top back on it okay now the legs here's a neat trick for doing legs first I'm going to even these things up will catch it like so so those tips are even up and I'd like to use the leg that's hold probably about twice the length of the body so we're gonna clip those off and those two are same length we take one of our legs and catch it on the thread you bring it around so that the ends are even again like this okay that way they're just the same take the vice roll it over do the same thing on the other side wrap your leg around there even up the tips flood into position there we go now a few not so terribly firm wraps around there guys okay there you go and we'll reach in here with a half hitch and then we'll come back and whip finish right on top of the half hitch so that leaves a nice distinctive black man on the hill a body you can see how those legs are wiggling already drives those two loop guilt nuts okay that looks pretty good okay another little touch of our super glue put that right on top here and that'll keep it together pretty well give it a go I think you'll really like these things and they're a lot of fun to fish for just before you go I wrote a little book that I would like to give to you I the seven habits of calm and happy people it includes exercises for really implementing all that stuff a lot of resources for reading more about it and some of my weird drawings too that these are difficult times we all struggle so I decided to give it to my viewers for free so go to find calm calm slash book and I'm confident that you're going to find valuable

Channel: Best Unintentional ASMR

Views: 876,261

Keywords: ASMR, Unintentional, Unintentional ASMR, Relax, Tingles, fly tying, fly fishing, relaxing, close-up

Id: UKRTmiZDEuA

Length: 32min 45sec (1965 seconds)

Published: Fri May 15 2020