I have been viewing Hans Weilenmann’s tying videos and I am very impressed with his tying style and his tying videos are excellant. He has some very unique ways of tying in material plus his videos are very good teaching aids. I have started experimenting with tying and using his instructions and have a long way to go to have flies that look as good as his, but, it has been fun and his tying style, especially tying in the hackle at the same time as starting your thread on the hook, makes tying a pattern faster and you use less thread wraps. Here is one of my favorite fly patterns that I use 95% if the time, that I tied up using his techniques. Since I weight most of my flies, there is 4 wraps of .020 under the thorax. The body, following his video, is made with the split thread which I have never experimented with before but now enjoy using. I am posting this picture so that Hans can “let me have it” on what I am doing wrong so that I can get better! : )
If you have not viewed his tying videos, you are missing a lot. Just type in the Search window: Hans Weilenmann tying videos and I think it will take you there and there are a lot of his videos.
that looks like a great fly, nicely done. I have to agree with you watching Han’s videos, I subscribed to his Youtube channel a while back and try to watch each one. I really enjoy watching him tie and also learned some new techniques that have greatly improved my tying. His videos are easy to understand & follow. I also like his use of natural materials in allot of his patterns. I’m partial to natural material, nothing against the new synthetic materials, they most definitely have their usage, theres just something about working with natural materials that I like
Hi Warren. Thanks for the kind words. Happy to hear you are finding the videos of some use.
You presented a very nice fly in the picture. No fly is ever perfect, and perhaps that is a good thing but as you asked, here are a few comments.
One absolute one - ribbing is meant to be evenly spaced, with a consistent pitch. There is room for improvement.
One subjective one - proportions are mostly personal, but if I were to tie that fly and for that look of hackle I would half the number of barbs in the tail. To me it makes the fly look a bit unbalanced.
I knew I was going to get “ribbed” about my ribbing! LOL I would say that there is a lot of room for improvement there! I will work on that and the tail proportions. Thanks
but as you asked, here are a few comments.