Can anyone point me to a recipe for Kelly Galloups ‘Articulated Butt Monkey’ pattern. (this guy certainly comes up with interesting names for his great flies!)
I have his steamer book with the instruction for the standard ‘Butt Monkey’, the articulared one seems to include a bead rattle and some other parts I can quite figure out from the catalog pictures.
Thank’s in advance…
I listened with great interests at the Chicago area Great Waters Expo this Feb to Kelly talk about his articulated flies. He was even long winded enough that he didn’t finish his fly tying demo in the alotted time so I followed him to another place so that he could finish tying the pattern that he was working on. He uses a product called “Beadalon” to join the two sections of his articulated flies. He said that the same company makes it for fly fishing but it costs more and you get less than if you go to a craft store. I bought some of the .018" 7 strand like this at Michael’s, a local craft store that I think is a chain. http://www.beadalon.com/7StrandStringingWires.asp
Sorry about not answering your original question since I don’t have the pattern, but this product is an important part of the recipe and thought that I would pipe up. Good luck,
Rick
Found a photo here: http://www.feather-craft.com/wecs.php?store=feacraft&action=display&target=JF324
What would be the advantage of Beadalon over say spectra / gel spun line ?
beadalon is 7 strands of wire vs 1 strand of mono would be my guess
That would be a question for galloup, but that is how he ties it. It’s metal and it is strong indeed. The product that I mentioned that I bought says 20 lb break strength on it and it is nylon coated stainless steel is what I actually bought. Bluntly haven’t tied up any of these yet myself, but really like the articulated flies. Have some larger brown trout that I think that these will just be the ticket for though.
If you are interested in hearing Kelly speak, I have these programs on my Ipod, but you can listen to them on your computer if you don’t have an Ipod, but I like to listen while I drive - beats listening to the kid’s music 
http://www.askaboutflyfishing.com/speakers/kelly/kelly.cfm I like the “fishing streamers for trophy trout” one. Same presentation that I saw live in Chicago. One of the things that I got out of it, was that there becomes a point in a big trout’s life where it moves from becoming a bug eater to an all meat eater like smaller fish. There are some exceptions like gorging on a hex hatch, but it just takes too many little bugs to meet the nutruitional requirements of a big trout. They can eat one 8 or 10" little trout and it would be equal to eating thousands of insects. He also talked about the ideal size of a large fly. He said that he went too big to cast to small and found that the 5" fly to be about the right size. Sounds like great pike food too to me. Again this isn’t for fishing 8’ brookies, but for fishing for what eats the 8" brookies. 
Tried to do a search on YouTube under Kelly Galloup only found some older stuff there that he did when he used very long shank hooks for streamers. He said that he doesn’t do that anymore in the seminar and found the articulated flies held the fish better since they didn’t have the leverage to get unhooked like they did with the very long shanked hooks.
Like I said, I enjoy his stuff. Looking forward to someone posting a recipe myself, or better yet a link to some video.
Rick
Here’s a few links that may help:
Non-articluated Butt Monkey
http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Tying-Videos/play_video.asp?section=6&VID=142
http://buckeyeflyfishers.com/flyofmonth/Butt_Monkey/ButtMonkey.html
Articulated Sculpzilla and Sex Dungeon
http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=151
http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=153
Miscellaneous
http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=37891
http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?action=print;num=1233548701
Sorry no instructions for the Articulated Butt Monkey, but I’m sure you could adopt some of these techniques to get the results you want.
Regards,
Scott