Tying The Wooly Sculpin with Kelly Galloup
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2018
- In this video, Kelly will teach you how to tie one of his favorite little sculpin patterns of all time: The Wooly Sculpin. This is a great pattern for those of you just getting into tying streamers, and one that relatively effortless to fish on a sinking line. The Wooly Sculpin is very similar to a sculpin pattern that was originally designed by Ed Shenk back in the 70's, and Kelly simply put a hackle on it to fill out the body and removed the marabou wing he used to tie in behind the head. This fly has the ability to be fished in many different ways to imitate fleeing or injured sculpin, and you can easily add a conehead up front if you want this fly to get deeper in the water column or prefer to fish streamers on a floating line.
You can purchase individual Wooly Sculpins here: www.slideinn.com/product/gall...
Galloup's Tan Wooly Sculpin Recipe:
Thread: GSP 100 White - www.slideinn.com/product/ultr...
Hook: Dai-Riki 710 #2 - www.slideinn.com/product/dai-...
Tail 1: 1 Plume of Cream Marabou - www.slideinn.com/product/stru...
Tail 2: 1 Plume of Tan/Brown MFC Barred Marabou - www.slideinn.com/product/mfc-...
Body: Tan Chenille or Ginger/White Variegated Chenille - www.slideinn.com/product/vari...
Hackle: Light Brown Neck Hackle or Ginger Strung Rooster Saddle- www.slideinn.com/product/stru...
Rib: Gold Ultra Wire ( Size: Brassie ) - www.slideinn.com/product/ultr...
Head and Collar: Natural Deer Hair - www.slideinn.com/product/natu... - Jak na to + styl
Marilyn Illner
Hello I am a 62 year old lady, newly retired and am teaching myself the art of fly tying. Out of all the tutorials online I'm really enjoying yours. I like the way you explain the use of equipment and materials. I live in the Interior of British Columbia Canada and most of your fly tying can be used here for our Rainbow Trout. Thanks and keep making the great videos.
Thanks Kelly . I will be 54 years old this year and your video's show me how to purchase my fly rod ( Set-Up ) and all that good stuff. Now I want to try tying my own flies as time goes on. I learn by watching videos then reading books and magazine and such. Thanks again and please keep making videos ,...just so cool !
Just watching the Wooly Sculpin video... I too am a 64 y.o. tyer. The difference between me and the guy mentioned in the video is that I tied my first fly in my mid 30's. At the age of 40 I worked in England where I became a member of the Wessex Fly Tyer's Guild. Over the following years I became discouraged in terms of my ability to assimilate book fly tying instructions and stopped tying for long periods. My flies were and still are, not consistent and up to the standard of what one would find in a fly shop.
While some folks may not appreciate the loads of tips and dialogue you give, Kelly, I DO appreciate it and have learned a great deal watching your videos. Not having those Wessex guys looking over my shoulder, I constantly run into problems handling materials and getting them on the hook correctly. I'm certainly hoping that either our local fly shop or our Cabelas will start some classes.
The other issue I seem to always have is NOT having all the materials and/or hooks referenced in these videos. Living in NW Montana, there's only so much snow plowing one can do and I'm constantly looking for a new pattern to tie. It's sometimes frustrating not having the materials and the wife thinks I spend way too much on my hobby. Maybe a little more material substitution advice might help?
Keep up the good instruction.
Hello Kelly and crew. What yall present is more than flytying, it's art, and first class. The subject matter, cripes, where do I start? Man, I dig it!
It was great of you to acknowledge Ed Shenk. One of my heros here in central Pennsylvania !!!
It would be a crime not to. Ed is still a legend and an inspiration for many fly tyers and anglers.
He is one of mine as well, KG
Kelly, the commentary is equally as entertaining as the informative tips and lessons. Im still ctfu from the ending when Mr Brown photobombs u. Thanks for all the great videos!
Your videos are by far the best I watch. You give very detailed instruction on materials and the proper placement of each material. Cannot wait to tie this one.
Thanks Larry! We still have quite a few in the works so be on the lookout for more tying videos in the months to come. This is a really pattern to tie, and plenty of ways to tweak it.
@@TheSlideinn These videos are very high quality. Tighlineproductions also does good work, but he ties smaller ones and dries, so different genres, same quality
These videos this tying season have been awesome. Thank you for doing this!
Glad you’re enjoying them Ed, and we really appreciate the positive feedback
Terrific instruction, Kelly. Please keep ‘em comin’. Thank you!!!👍👍🎣
Thanks Kevin
Excellent! You should make a video fishing bass and pike, some techniques to fish with big streamers and different ways to hook big fish in practice!
Nice job! I really like the extra time you took to explain things more fully! I think I've learned more than watching two other people doing the same flit. Thanks for your time!
Great video as always! I love the philosophy and genesis of the pattern and your clear concise explanations of what and WHY you are doing it!,
Great video Kelly and great tying tips!
Thanks Dave and we’re glad you are enjoying them
Hi Kelly. Thanks for mentioning Pennsylvania's Ed Shenk. The 1976 Garcia Fishing Annual also featured an article that he wrote about sculpins. I started fishing the streams that he wrote about in that article because I lived less than an hour from them. A few years later I got to know Ed when I joined the Trout Unlimited chapter where he was also a member. I learned to tie his sculpins, and they worked well for me on wild brown trout and smallmouth bass.
Great single hook pattern, will definitely be giving this one a go. Another solid video gents
It’s a really fun pattern to tie, and you can mix it up with tons of color variations. Glad you are enjoying the videos and we’ve got a lot more for ya in the months to come
Excellent video.
Thanks man!
This video helped me alot, thanks🙏🏻
Super instructiones! Thanks a lot. Greetings from Germany
Thanks Andreas and glad you enjoyed the video
One of the greatest flies ever.
Thanks Barney, really appreciate it
Classy move with the tip of the tap to Shenk his sculpin is also a deadly fly.
Thank you. Ed is still a legend and the next generation needs to know about those who came before them.
Great and simple pattern that will fish well! In thinking about it, this would be a good foundational video pattern to start with before someone goes messing with articulation wire, eyes, rubber legs and more complex flies. After watching your videos a couple years ago, I had to go back and correct some foundational flaws in my hair handling technique that I had learned and packed around since the 1980’s. Your video series this year far surpasses even your earlier videos- very well done guys!
Rich-
Totally agree. People get really frustrated when they are tying articulated patterns and mess up on the head after all that work. The great thing about wooly sculpins and cougars is that they force you to learn the very foundational aspects that you discuss in order to have them look clean. Really appreciate the positive feedback on the videos this season, and we have some other good ones in store for you in the months to come. - John
I have a question for you all. I have started tying up a few Wooly Sculpins with improving success. However, I noticed that the collars on those shown in your on-line shop are way longer than what Kelly tied in the video. Perhaps they are commercial version? In any case, I would be interested in your take on the collar. Thanks much & hope I can make it back out to Montana soon. Ed
The other day I was looking through my arsenal, and was planning out my single hook flies. I'm leaving for the White River tomorrow, and decided to reread Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout (ps whens the new one coming out?), and it hit me- I hadn't tied, and didn't have a single solitary Wooly Sculpin left from when I batch tied them two or three years before .Put it to the top of the list. If I had to list my favorite single hook streamers, it would be in the top 1 or 2. Very versatile, easy to tie, easy to fish.
PS- I know you like forming these heads by hand with the blade- with so many pre made cutters for other materials, you should design a tool that holds the blade at the exact bend that you like it. It has markers for consistency. I prefer doing it by hand as well at this point, but I see so many guys struggle getting the shapes down. If Tommy could get someone to build a D&D wedge cutter, you two could print money lol.
Agree with you Daniel. I always forget about the wooly with all the articulated patterns out there, but when the going gets tough this fly usually gets it done. FYI, Modern Streamers II WILL BE OUT THIS YEAR!
Ty Wheel has a new trimmer tool out that holds the blade in a variety of positions. I just got mine and am anxious to try it out. I think this might be the perfect pattern to try it on.
Love your tying and have learned much from you. Thank you.
BTW....Where can one get one of those table hair combs you use for cleaning out the fur?
New age haha ,definitely going to try this out
Love the videos. I fish the East (Catskills). Should I be tying streamers 2 sizes down? Not too many 20" fish in our local streams.
Salmon siwash are really good hooks, my dad didnt like them for his spinners because they twirled around so much they missed a lot but on flies the hookup rate is crazy and they dont get off
Nice and easy
Thanks Mike. Still a really fun fly to tie and you can churn them out in very little time
"This is a fast fly" > 30 minute video =)
Thanks for all this free content! A new book in the works?
Glad to help out Harely, and yes....Modern Streamers II will be out later this year!
Love the pattern and will be building a few of these for some river/creek browns and smallmouth in Ontario. What I am most curious about is what vise you use/would recommend for a decent rotary set-up? Thanks.
Robert, I use the Renzetti but there are plenty on the Market. If price is an object I would say the the Renzetti traveler is by far the best rotary for the money. When you just start comparing the vises they are all pretty good in the higher price points just different and regardless of brand all really good, kind of a Ford Chevy thing. I tie on the presentation 4000.
Any way you can bring back the trick or treat? I would try to learn to tie it if I have to. idk what it is about the fly that makes me want it i just do.
Great stuff, Kelly! One question: Do you ever put beads on your sculpins? I'm trying not to add weight to leader, but if I have to I will to get down quickly behind those Madison rocks. Thanks!
Could you add wire wraps under to get it down faster or only a sink tip line?
I was wondering the same thing.
Kelly, it seems that a lot of successful streamers incorporate a woolly bugger, this streamer is a bugger with a deer hair head. The Dungeon has a bugger basis, Charlie Craven's Gonga and Double Gonga... theres something about that basic bugger body that is magic.
Peanut envy had a bugger base too
what size hair stackers do you recommend for the JHNIC?
Stephen-
The small is great for smaller dry flies. Medium is best for medium sized dries and smaller muddlers. Large is what we use for big streamers and Stonefly/Stimulator wings
I started tying earlier this year and been doing pretty well overall, but working with deer hair is a struggle. I can create good collars and get a good spin on the head, but no matter what I do it seems to want to spin on the hook, so when it's done if I take and twist it, I can rotate the whole head to the side. I'm using nanosilk, and it's like it's too slick maybe. I put a good thread base down and go as tight as i can without cutting the hair, but for some reason I don't seem to be getting any "bite" on the shank. I've tried practicing just doing heads on bare hoolks, cutting it all off and and trying again, but I'm not getting any better Any thoughts on like "common mistakes" I might be making?
Down turn eye for a sinking line w/ the deer hair head packed light to give it a jigging action???
Not really a jigging fly no matter how light you pack the hair. We move this fly actively and try to give it a more darting retrieve like a natural sculpin; however, the conehead variation of this fly is a money jig fly
Curious if you've tried clipping the bottom of the palmered hackle on the body for a flatter profile? And is it just me or does this fly seem too long in overall length compared to the natural? Regardless, hooked a big one on an olive wooly sculpin yesterday (snapped tippet off)!
Chris, I never have clipped it flat, I like the effect the hackle has for shape illusion with building little weight. As to the natural and the size, scuplin are a very diverse minnow and can have lots of different sizes (mottled and slimly) being two of the most common and they are 2 to 4 inches in most the rivers I have fished but I fish this fly from a size 6 to 1/0. KG
Man u can can talk, no breaths or silent moments here.....points for that🏆🤔
@slideinn
I noticed you can’t find the Dai-Riki 710 #2 hooks very easily. Is it a 3x long or 4x long shank? Also, what would be a good substitute?
Ya what a drag they are gone, yes they are a 3X that"s why I go up one size to get the extra eye length. thanks for watching. Kelly
TheSlideinn
Yeah that is a drag. Thanks Kelly, really enjoy your videos
Ha! I went clouser, deceiver, and then that Modern Deceiver triple shank Alex Lafkas pattern! Haha.
Nice! Bucktail is probably the best way to get into the streamer game as it is very easy to work with. Once you get comfortable tying deceivers, this is a great pattern to start in on because it teaches you two very important aspects: How to properly counter rib your hackle and how to make a cougar/dungeon style head.
Very interested in the shovel head line, is there a video?
Ryan-
Not yet but we should probably get one going on it. It is essentially a tapered sinking line that really shines for flies in that 5"-9" range. The 330 is a canon and best fished at 25 feet + while the 280 is a little more forgiving.
I’m looking to out fit a 10wt I have as a pike rig for the lake,would the 330 be a good fit. I fish from a paddle board in the flats where the is also a deep drop. The flats are easily five to 10 feet deep. Any suggestion is much appreciated I figure it’s $100 bucks either way. My local shop doesn’t carry any heavy stuff so I just assume order one of yours. Thanks.
Ryan-
The 330 grain would be a little light for the 10 wt. I would probably look at at something like the Airflo Depthfinder in a 400 grain if you want to go deep or the WF 10 Rio In-Touch Pike/Musky line in either the Intermediate or 1.5/6 IPS model
TheSlideinn thanks for the tip. I think I’ll go with the rio intermediate. Cheers
Kelly "If you love'm good for you" Gallup
do you need to fish this with a full sink line. or would a sinking leader work just as good?
You could definitely get away with a sinking leader as well
I think this is the "Go-To" when three of the other "Go-To's" are unavailable. ;)
For sure Michael...I think Kelly has about 18.34 Go-To's out there depending on the day.
How can I order that longer deer patch you have? I might be able to actually do something with deer hair.
The biggest patches we sell are the Premo Strips at roughly 14"x2.5" and you can find them here: www.slideinn.com/product/premo-deer-hair/
Did I see a bamboo bodkin?!
Why called "wooly" with a deer hair head????
I cant remember why I called it that, it was 30 years ago. Thanks for watching. Kelly
Jesus yep you talk way too much 😭. Nice tying
This is one of the best flies I have ever used and it came from a source I don't remember. The Bow River Bugger does not come from this pattern. Typically it comes in with a brass bullet head with very close trimmed deer hair . I have also found it tied for lack of weight. Of course there was a number of patterns because no other river exists on the face of the earth except the Bow River! 🤔🥷😂🤣
Bob Clouser was doing a demonstration on tying the Clouser minnow. So this upstart comes pushing his way into the group. He snorted and said "that's not how I was shown!" !!!!! 🤔🧘🫣🤷. When he stomped away the group was laughing. Sometimes we lose information because the observers have to be told.