Wonderfully done, Eric, and well worth the wait. Though I stick with spey and Dee flies, my wife, Vickie, enjoys tying Atlantic Salmon Flies. She has learned, the hard way, about cascading thread heads and how the use of a very tacky wax helps prevent that. Great article, both parts I & II.
Great tutorial.
Don’t think I’ll be trying anything like that soon.
The part about avalanching thread at the head caught my attention, too.
Didn’t know what it was called or how to prevent it when it happened to me on a large headed Bass fly. The thread kept coming over the hook eye in loops. Now I do - I’ll gladly use head cement - then lie about it.
I have read carefully parts one and two and am still in awe of the level of skill. A true “ARTIST”.
Eric, just wonderful. I shot a tundra swan here in Va. several years ago. (completley legal, had a permit) and have an abundance of feathers. Dyed a few and will use more now trying some simpler salmon flies.
Thanks Again
Bill D
Bill, I envy you. If you have high quality swan feathers they’re worth their weight in gold. I always loved tying with swan, it has a great translucence and the light shines through it. I miss those days, though turkey has advantages too, it’s a bit easier to deal with I think.
Eric
I am very grateful for your taking the time to put these together. Having done a couple simple flies for fly of the week, I know how finicky it can be to tie, shoot, tie shoot. I can’t begin to imagin the difficulty in doing all that for a fly of this complexity. And, to have it turn out so presentable as well. Great job, and thanks again. I learned a lot.
- Jeff
You guys have to know, how very honored we are to have Eric presenting these for us.
Kudos Eric, very well described and photographed. thx
That Jock Scott is one awesome looking fly. I love it.
Now maybe I should go back and read the article. There’s gotta be a lot of info I could use in there.
Update 12/6/08
I did read the article and it is chock full of info I can use to tie better flies and not just the big complicated ones but the simpler ones too. A great article.
My biggest fear was that I was putting too much information in there. The reason I did the article was to try to save anyone who wants to do these flies from all the frustrations I have gone through learning them. There are some good books out there, but unless you have them all, and also know some people, they leave a lot of important details out. So I decided to put every last thing I could think of in there. There’s a lot to wade through, but I think much of it will help. Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
Eric
Help I missed part one and i can’t seem to find it on the site - this series is brilliant! can anyone direct me to part one of the series of Jock Scott pleaseeeeeee…
thank you so much for creating them Eric.
Jeanne
To get to it, go to the main page, and down at the bottom in the small print click on Just Old Flies. Then go to the bottom of that page and click on “Archives”. The Jock Scott tutorials are near the bottom of right hand list.
Eric
Thanks so much Eric, I’ll go there straight away and get it. I’m so relieved it is still there.
Jeanne