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Dr Alex Ties
United Kingdom
Registrace 9. 10. 2013
Hello everyone! I'm Alex, a junior doctor from the Midlands, and I'm sharing some videos of my fly tying efforts. I'm a lifelong fisherman, and I've been tying on and off since I was a young teenager.
This isn't a commercial endeavour; I hold no sponsorships so if I mention any tool, product, brand, or retailer, it is because I genuinely feel they are worth mentioning! (Shout out to Lakeland Fly Tying, Lathkill's, Anglers Lodge, and Funky Fly Tying - I get a good 90% of my supplies from these)
I hope you enjoy the videos, I have a lot of fun making them and I hope to get better with each one. Thanks for checking in!
This isn't a commercial endeavour; I hold no sponsorships so if I mention any tool, product, brand, or retailer, it is because I genuinely feel they are worth mentioning! (Shout out to Lakeland Fly Tying, Lathkill's, Anglers Lodge, and Funky Fly Tying - I get a good 90% of my supplies from these)
I hope you enjoy the videos, I have a lot of fun making them and I hope to get better with each one. Thanks for checking in!
Tying The Whistling Dun
I wasn’t able to find a huge amount of information on this pattern beyond what is listed in Mike Harding’s pattern reference book; if anyone knows more on the history or background for this fly I’d love to hear it!
Whilst this doesn’t actually whistle like it’s whistling (golden!) plover namesake, it’s a very attractive spider pattern nonetheless! Do give it a go if you’ve got some golden plover hackles and you’re fed up of tying “Hare’s Lug And Plover”-s.
Whilst this doesn’t actually whistle like it’s whistling (golden!) plover namesake, it’s a very attractive spider pattern nonetheless! Do give it a go if you’ve got some golden plover hackles and you’re fed up of tying “Hare’s Lug And Plover”-s.
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Channel Updates, New Tying Assistant!
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Where have I been the last few weeks? Here’s some gratuitous cat videos to make up for it…! Don’t worry, returning to normal running soon.
Tying The Wiggle Damsel
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A fun John Goddard damsel nymph pattern, this uses a sacrificial hook to create a jointed body that dances and shimmies through the water - just like the swimming action of the naturals! Alternatively, a 20mm shank for jointed streamers would do excellently for this technique too.
Tying The Pretender
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A lovely early season pattern from George Barron, this uses reds, yellows, and blacks to beautiful effect.
Tying The Old Master
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Yet another classic spider, Pritt’s 1885 ‘The Old Master’ is a great all purpose summer pattern. Although the original recipe calls for heron herl on the body, this can be easily substituted with grey goose fibres.
Tying The Fifty Degrees
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A beautiful Jim Deren pattern, the Fifty Degrees is a classically styled American dry fly pattern that suggests a number of light coloured insects. Jim Deren owned the Anglers Roost, a fly shop in the Chrysler Building in New York City, and developed a number of patterns still in use today.
Tying The Oak Fly
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Another classic North Country pattern, this fly has been around for a while; certainly it was already well known when Turton wrote his “Anglers Manual”. Nicely segmented with horse hair and with a little dubbed thorax, this fly can be taken for any number of small midge-y things!
Tying The Adams Irrestible
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A small variant of the wonderfully chunky irresistible, using barred woodchuck guard hairs for the tail. I think tying all those Ausable Wulffs has rubbed off on me…!
Tying Spiders - Three "A and B" Patterns
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Here I tie three classic north country spider patterns - the Snipe and Purple, the Partridge and Orange, and the Woodcock and Red - hence the “A and B” moniker! These are the simplest of the spider patterns (we will get to here heads, wings, and the like soon, don't worry!). But whilst these may be very minimalist flies, they can be technically challenging to tie; with such very fine and fragil...
Tying Fran Betters’ ‘Usual’
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Rabbit’s foot - lucky for some, clearly not for the particular rabbit though! This pattern uses the wiry and water repellent fur from the bottom of a rabbit foot for this one-material dry, giving a bugginess and texture that can represent any number of insects. Simple tying at its best, as was Fran’s ethos.
Tying The Tup’s Indispensable
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Using Vicuña Dubbing’s excellent Tups substitute, we can avoid the need to go anywhere near the urine stained testicle fur of a breeding ram - the secret ingredient, alongside the brushings of a lemon yellow spaniel and some red mohair - to tie this classic chalkstream dry!
Tying A Paraloop Midge Emerger
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Paraloop hackles make for great emergers; the body and thorax are suspended just subsurface, with a big mass of hackle fibres dragging down a meniscus of water and imitating the jumbled mess of an emerging insect.
Tying The Green Mayfly #1
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A stunning Donald McClearn loch pattern, this fly uses warm olive French Partridge, chocolatey-brown pheasant, and creamy seals fur and badger hackle to make a fly even I feel I would like to eat! Donald is probably best known for devising and codifying the Dabbler family of loch flies, but this is a cracking pattern of his too. Green Mayfly #2 swaps grizzly for the badger and the tying of this...
Tying A Super Simple Hendrickson Nymph
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No legs, no hackle, and technically the rib and thorax cover could be done away with too; this is all about the different dubbings to create contrast between abdomen and thorax. Creamy felted red fox for the abdomen, scruffy teased seals fur for the thorax. A simple but effective fly, and you can really churn these out at the vice.
Tying The Ausable Wulff - with an original Fran Betters fly
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Skip to 1:45 if you’re just here for the tying! The Ausable Wulff; one of the many patterns developed by Mr. Francis Betters, a fisherman of renown in the Adirondacks, and who knew the West Branch of the Ausable like the back of his hand. One of my favourite patterns of all time, in no small part due to the impact it’s creator had on me during a serendipitous visit to his shop. In the summer of...
Tying the Goddard Caddis - versus an original John Goddard tied fly!
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Tying the Goddard Caddis - versus an original John Goddard tied fly!
Just learned about paraloops. Great video, thanks.
Very good
You weren’t joking about the fragility of the heron herl !! 😩😂
You tie very beautiful flies I miss your videos
Extended body, wally wing. Excellent.
Nice tie. I might try it with a longer-bodied hook. This makes it easier to leave a little more space behind the hook eye.
Very nice👍
The Ivicta is tied with yellow thread I believe.This makes sense as it matches the body dubbing.
First time I've seen this technique. Thanks for sharing. I'll tye a few and try them. My preference is to just use a stripped Peacock quill body without the seals fur and Peacock for the abdomen for a nice clean finish. Great instruction, as always 👍
Come back and tie more Flies!
Being from the capital of May flys, your creation is spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful work!! Tight lines🐛🐜🕷️!!!!!
I just found your channel recently and I think I binged every video in one session. It's very relaxing, high quality, and I love the backgrounds and bits of information you give for different flies as you tie them. I'm also amazed at your consistency with proportions. I can tie 5 of the same spider pattern and somehow they'll all come out looking different. 😅 I really hope you're doing well, and that you pick up the channel again someday.
Nice! 👍 Is that the golden yellow color? Nummber 544?
Lovely tie. Question if I may: does one soften the horse hair first or wrap it dry? Thx
How bout a tying material list?
Nice ty and it’s nice to see how it sits in the water!!! Tight lines🪲🦟🐞!!!!!!
Perfect 👍 !!!! Tight lines🐜🪲🐞!!!!
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'Bash one out in a couple of minutes'.........yes i do in the shower every morning......
Load of total nonsense! And as for 13 barbs being correct, an insect only has 6 legs ffks!!!
Yeah they work, but so do most flies.......and there was more fish in the rivers and they killed everything back in the day......id rate a modern day emerger over a spider anyday.
Can never understand this prescriptive flytying utter nonsense.......do you really think the fish cares if you are using silk or bog standard thread?? I bet it has no was of discerning the hackles you use.......
I lived in Northern NY in the mid 90s - near Massena. A few times a summer, my Dad would take us down to camp and fish the Ausable. St Regis was another favorite. We would always stop at Frans shop to buy flies though. Good memories of watching Fran tie while my Dad and him talked. I was just learning to tie so it was fascinating to me watching such a legend at work. Wish I'd have saved some. Would be pretty cool to have a Fran Betters tied Ausable Wulff in a frame to hang up
Beautiful fly. Do you have a website for selling your flys? Tight lines🦗🐜🪰!!!!
That’s an a great pattern Alex. Well tied. When would you fish that, I’m guessing not in the winter? (Or have you?!) I’m guessing it’s when the damsel fly hatch is on and there are some young bloods ready to take to the sky. I would like to know if you’ve caught on this? (You sound as if you have!) Regards David
Hi that is a really nice fly pattern. Thank you for sharing. I shall have a go at this soon. Do you fish it in winter? Regards David
Dr. Alex it is winter and we see no tying last summer, hope al is well. Greetings from Holland 😊
What a fantastic fly I have just attempted to make this fly made pretty good attempt apart from the legs that takes some patience. But well done to you for producing such a great fly.
Nice to have you in my fly tyers list, you have a beautyfull collection patterns, hope you make more because it is two years ago for the last one, enfin greetings from Holland
Looks like a useful wee fly. I'll tie a few and see how they do next season.
I love burnt orange floss. It maes very attractive wet flies and the trout seem to love it. :-)
Classic useful rougher water fly. I have watched Peter Arfield's tying many times-I enjoy his slow presentation. The penny dropped just a moment ago about the nun's nighty. I got the joke of course . but didn't connect the colour purple. Ecclesiastical! :-)
Thank you for sharing. Fran (Betters) or Francis (I was a kid, so Francis) once taught a young boy to fly fish on the West Branch of the Ausable River. My dad had met Fran many years before, at the bar of the Whiteface Inn in Wilmington, NY, on New Years Eve. I was fortunate, very fortunate. Even visited his home once and have a photographic memory of the rifle collection he had laid out in an empty room on the floor as if marking every 5 minutes on the face of a clock.
I lived in Northern NY in the mid 90s - near Massena. A few times a summer, my Dad would take us down to camp and fish the Ausable. St Regis was another favorite. We would always stop at Frans shop to buy flies though. Good memories of watching Fran tie while my Dad and him talked. I was just learning to tie so it was fascinating to me watching such a legend at work.
It's a elegant and delicate workmanship😊 l love it.
Hope you are well and stll tyng.:-)
JUST SUPER 🎉,,,, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ENERGY,,, WELL DONE 👍
🎉. JUST DYNAMIC,,, VERY WELL DONE 👍,,, THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND PASSION THAT YOU BRING TO ALL OF US 🎉,,,, GREAT CHANNEL,, INFORMATIVE AND CREATIVE,,, PLEASE BE SAFE AND HEALTHY 🎉
Using a coffee grinder I picked up years ago I blended a trio of dubbing . Hairline ,orange ,pink, and fl yellow. I was amazed at how well this fly performed. I'm 70 now and I've been tying and fishing since I was 14 when my Dad gave me my first fly tying kit. I tye this fly in sizes 12 -1xl to 16 .Tight lines everyone.✌
Really a wonderful, and easy to follow video, thank you, MSG Leum
Sir, it's an awful shame you stopped producing these wonderful videos...your tying and narration skills are superlative.
Love this!
This is how it should be done, excellent video and instruction, great skill...thank you Dr Alex
Dr Alex, no noise, no waffle, straight to the point, just brilliant....Thank you...
Arr the small folding books available from any shop or catalog?)
Great tying idea thank-you
Hi,Plover is pronounced PLUVER but never mind really enjoy your content and thanks,cheers.