Learn Fly Tying Lesson 1 for Beginners with David Cammiss

David is an old style guy who has been tying flies longer than most. I enjoy watching him and thought it would be good to use David’s videos as I get quite camera shy for some reason I have never figured out. Watch David tie a chironomidae or as David calls them, ‘Buzzers’.

You won’t need much for materials:

• Hook Buzzer 10, 12, 14.
• Body Black tying thread.
• Thorax Black tying thread.
• Rib Silver wire.

Take your time and do a good job. Your Buzzer should produce for a long time now, have fun on the water.

Are you amazed at how well a good artificial trout fly holds up and attracts trout? It is pretty cool and I was certainly impressed the first time I did any fly fishing for trout.

Have you ever tied a trout fly or any fly for that matter? If you haven’t you are missing out on an awesome hobby to go right along with your fishing hobby.

Ha, after I tied my first trout fly and actually catch trout with it I started tying my own trout flies. I also put away my spinning rod for a couple of years.

Tying flies for your fly fishing trips is pretty easy, if you start with simple but effective trout flies. I started with a couple of dry flies that only had a few items and that we of course simple to tie.

It’s been so long ago I don’t actually remember what the name of that trout fly was but I do remember what I tied it using.

• a mustad hook about size 12.
• black thread, right from my wife’s sowing kit.
• a couple of brown hen hackle, very common colour for dry flies.
• brown fur or yarn
• a few fibres from the brown hackle for the tail of the trout fly

That was it, a very simple fly to tie and it stayed on the top of the water where I wanted it to and it caught lots of brook trout.

So, if you want to give trout fly tying a try you can’t go wrong with the White River Fly Shop Fly Tying Kit – Trout Tying then get tying.

I have been fly fishing salmon and other big species of fish for 30 years or more and I always tend to start with a big goofy looking top water fly but the truth is I have caught far more large fish on smaller flies, like I use on small streams and brooks for brook trout. I guess I always think big flies catch big fish so I always give them the first shot.

Heck I remember a particular day that I was the only one hooking Atlantic salmon, on almost every cast I made. The guys around the pool started asking me what I was using after the third or fourth hook up. Of course I played the guessing game for a while. Then I gave in and shared two of my flies with my fly fishing buddies.

I lost a couple of those flies, one landed way up a tree I wasn’t ready to climb, another I broke the hook on a big rock that kept getting in the way of my back cast and a couple, well the salmon liked them so much they kept them when they got away.

Before long I was down to my last fly, maybe I should have kept them secret. Anyways we decided to drive back to the closest town that had a fly shop, as I didn’t bother bringing my fly tying kit with me on that day. DUH!!

We got back to town, a 30 mile trip, and I purchased a handful as did my two fishing buddies and we headed back up to our camp site for lunch and then back to the salmon pool. That’s a weekend I will not soon forget.

My point is that small flies will some times catch fish that aren’t looking at big flies. And sharing with friends is a good thing. I would much rather have everyone having a good time as long as I am catching fish.

It looked like a green machine, made of brown deer hair and tied on a hook between #12 and #16, so it’s not very big at all. It had no hackle, just the brown deer hair but it worked like I have never seen a fly work on Atlantic salmon.

Note: The day we fished with this little deer hair bug fly it was hot and had been hot for a week or so. The water level was extremely low and the water temperature was much higher than normal for that time of year.

So the materials for this Deer Hair Salmon Fly:

Wet Fly Hook: #12 – #16

Thread: Black

Body Material: deer hair