Tying a Quilled Caddis Pupa by Davie McPhail
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Materials Used;
Hook, Size 14 Grub
Thread,
Uni-8/0 Light Cahill
Underbody, Copper Wire
Body, Dyed Yellow Peacock Quill Partly Stripped of Herl
Wing-Buds, Split Jungle Cock Eye
Legs and Thorax Cover, Natural Cdc Feather
Thorax, Natural Fur Fox Squirrel
Horns, Dyed Brown Olive Bronze Mallard
Stunning! Just stunning!
Fly tying is a pretty niche sort of pastime; nevertheless, this video alone has been viewed (April 2021) no less than 47,000 times. And you have nearly 100, 000 subscribers. That's extraordinary, from such a micro community.
Your obvious humility makes me wonder whether you realise just how you have changed the (global) world of fly tying. Maybe one day there will exist a catalog raisoné of all McPhail patterns.
No-one lasts for ever, but your art will.
Wow! I'm learning so much 👏👏👏
Very Nice Davie. Thanx 4 sharing this video.
Aloha🌴🎄🎣🐛
Davie, another great tie! I have been following for a couple of years now and learn something every tie. Thanks!
Love your videos dave.keep em coming plz.u make it look so easy.u do tie a great fly sir.thanks
Wow! Just found this one Davie. It’s always amazing how easy you make it look but I mustn’t lose hope. I know you’ve been tying many years and as they say, practice makes perfect. Just so.....
great tie davie....just met one of your friends , Brian; both of your flies are great for UK and the states
I am a big fan of your work mr. mc Phail.All the flies. But these pupa patterns are so fantastic. They have this special realistic look. With a few together in your hand it looks like real. But it seems only you can make these look as they do. Even if I do every step the same.That's the work of an artist. Like copying a painter:it'll never look the same.
Luckely I catch good with my own tyings btw👍.
These times have a lot of misery,but some things are fantadtic like youtube,where we can watch Davie mc. Phail flytying.
Best regards.And never stop tying please.
great fly Davie,I always enjoy your videos,very informative.Thanks, Kev.
Davie, really nice fly. Look's like it's ready to fly off.
Another beauty, Davies. I'm addicted to your video's particularly the salmon patterns.
I've been waiting for this fly all my life! Thanks again Davie.
Nice and buggy looking fly. Beautiful work!
Outstanding tying and pattern. Love it. And I am sure the fish do too.
Best wishes from Arve Herman Tangen from Norway
Thank you Arve and best wishes from Scotland...All the very best Davie..
Davie - we salute you!! :) lovely pattern
Amazing as always Davie!
Congratulation Davie ! Great Fly
I love the use of the jungle cock for wing buds. Excellent as always.
Thanks Dave! Jim
Very Nice Davy, & Thankyou 4 sharing this video with us.
Take Care. Aloha 🌴🦐🎣🤙🏼
Great Tying as usual Davie
J'adore, toujours aussi joli ces montages, il me reste plus qu'à me mettre à l' étau :-)
:-)
Tank you
Léo
ill be sure to take this one to the local brown trout stream in march.
Lovely fly
Nice one Davie.
Such a nice tie!
Really cool!
cracking fly davie
Hello Davie. Great looking little caddis. Just wondering if you have ever tied any articulated flies my friend?
Best Regards, Ken
Hi Ken,
I have tied one or two over the years but to be honest not very many, I've tied some seatrout flies and as well mayfly and damsel nymphs but that's it..
All the very best Davie
Hi Davie, Brilliant idea of the half stripped quills looks very realistic, can you tell me what dilution of bleach do you use to do this.Thanks for another great tutorial Regards Brian
Hi thatdamnmackem,
I'm glad you liked the quilled effect, I use about 1/3 bleach to 2/3 warm water which works well..I do one feather at a time as it's easier to keep an eye on it..
All the very best Davie
Dave, first, thank you for posting this. Great fly and I have just watched some other tying videos of yours and they were great. May I make one recommendation? Check out Fly Fishing in the Ozarks videos. Mr. Wise has a very great way of presenting tying videos. He cuts out all of the fluff and repetitive, beginner's level stuff.
However, what would be really nice would be a full length video with a repeat of said video attached to the end. But this repeat would be like Fly Fishing in the Ozarks videos, only the major steps shown. Everything else would be sped up to 4 or 5000 percent speed. And a time stamp at the beginning of the shortened video to make reference easy.
looked like the dreghorn water :)
Hello Davie, superb tying as always. Can i please ask what the intro music is. My son is just strumming his acoustic and he came up with something very similar. He genuinely hadnt heard it before as he isnt a tyer.
Hi David,
My son wrote three songs for me to use on youtube and this is one of them, he uploaded on this site in 2016 as he got asked a lot for a way to buy it which I have attached for you to see but I have been using it a longer than this..I'm glad you liked the fly...
All the very best Davie
seanmcphail1991.bandcamp.com/track/out-on-the-water
Weri good fly.
By the way Davie, where did you get that bodkin from?
In one of your videos I saw that you were using a bodkin that has the same type of handle the xacto knife has. Difference is that it has a + cut to hold the bodkin needle.
Did you make that yourself so that the bodkin or needle would fit inside there by using something like a hacksaw blade to cut the + so that the bodkin doesn't move around.
Hi Kent,
I have attached a link to the Xcelite craft knife holder which is the one that I use to hold my dubbing needle, I have used it since I got it back in the 80s so it's served me well...
All the very best Davie
www.uktoolcentre.co.uk/products/xcelite-xn-200-medium-duty-craft-knife.html
@@DavieMcPhail Thankyou for that bit of information Davie, and I really appreciate you getting back to me too.
Aloha🌴🦐🎣
Davie mcphail. beautiful work my friend. What could I use for substitute wing case instead of jc? I don't have thag currently :( thanks!
Hi Brandon Nevarez,
Turkey or Goose Biots are a very good sub for wing buds and would suit this fly...I'm glad you enjoyed the video and that you liked the fly...
All the very best Davie
Davie,
I really enjoy your video's, while your patterns are great, i use them more for the technique's you use as they are very varied. This one in particular is the split JC eye. How do you split the JC? Or is that something that happens often with JC naturally?
Many thanks.
HiMicah weeks,
You'll find that when you look at many Jungle Cock capes they have a few natural split feathers and the more they are split the cheaper the cape will be so if you are happy like I would be as I do use them like in this pattern I'll buy it. But if I do have to split a feather then I will use my scissor to cut down to the black area of the eye then I'll pull it lightly to encourage the feather to split further down if I need it..I'm glad you enjoy the videos I do enjoy making them when I get a chance...
All the very best Davie
Like that one Davie N K
Have you tried an unweighted version without the horns and using the CDC to form a bubble wing? Could be an excellent emerging buzzer pattern.
Hi Bob Morgan,
I've tied hundreds of CDC Bubble Caddis/Sedge over the years and it was one of the first flies that I wrote about in a magazine in the early 90s..
All the very best Davie
Beautiful fly, Davie... thank you.
Seems you've been using copper wire for shape and weight recently. Do you know the diameter of the "small" wire you use?
Mike
Hi Mike,
I believe the diameter of the copper wire is 0.125mm but I'm not a hundred percent sure, a small or extra small utc or uni wire would be fine..I'm glad you liked the pattern...
All the very best Davie
***** Thank you, Davie.
I measured my UTC wire... for my reference and for anyone else who might find it useful.
UTC X-Sm is about .004"
UTC Sm is about .0065"
UTC Br is about .0085"
If your wire is .125mm, that's .0049"
Mike
Hello Davie,
I've watched this tie a number of times and it seems you have dyed the peacock eye, then bleached the fine barbs off... do I understand correctly, that you are dying first?
Mike
Hi Mike,
I always dye the peacock first and then bleach them as bleaching the peacock eyes can make them very brittle, if you were to dye them after bleaching them you would end up with a lot of dry and broken fibres...
All the very best Davie
Thank you, Davie, I appreciate the help.
Mike
Davie, I am just curious how you deal with the "tackiness" left after UV curing? I have been using Clear Goo UV resin and I have noticed that it is still quite tacky after I hit it with the light. Is it the brand? Thanks
Hi Jamie Pringle,
No all resins are the same even the old epoxy resin left a tacky surface, so what I do it to coat it with a fine coat of varnish as this will keep the resin clear and tack free..
All the very best Davie
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Davie, also how long did you bleach it to get a little herl off the tips?
Hi Brandon,
It doesn't take long so you need to watch it very closely, it's been a wee while since I did some but I would say about 5 to 10 minutes...
All the very best Davie
+Davie McPhail alright I will do so. thank you davie! I would love to send you some flies in a bit but I'm sure you have inquiries doing that alot...cheers!
Nice tying, but the quality of the video is a Horror, not up to date
What’s the text me on telegram thing? Don’t understand?
Hi Mel Morda,
It is a Scam, I am sorry to say that someone set up a channel using my name and photo. They have messaged many people on my channel asking them to contact them, once I found this out I blocked the channel and reported them to CZcams..I am sorry that I can't do anymore as it's all down to CZcams now so hopefully they will take down this clone channel..I have also spent most of the day deleting all the messages I could find so if you could let me know where the message is that you got then I will remove it..
All the very best Davie
@@DavieMcPhail czcams.com/video/H9m710oxxxA/video.html
Dave, first, thank you for posting this. Great fly and I have just watched some other tying videos of yours and they were great. May I make one recommendation? Check out Fly Fishing in the Ozarks videos. Mr. Wise has a very great way of presenting tying videos. He cuts out all of the fluff and repetitive, beginner's level stuff.
However, what would be really nice would be a full length video with a repeat of said video attached to the end. But this repeat would be like Fly Fishing in the Ozarks videos, only the major steps shown. Everything else would be sped up to 4 or 5000 percent speed. And a time stamp at the beginning of the shortened video to make reference easy.
Hi Andrew,
The biggest problem is my lack of knowledge when it comes to editing footage and especially the software that I use. I film and edit everything as I've had to learn this all by myself so I only know the very basics when it comes to this and I just get by. I do hope to in the future update all or most of my videos and as well hopefully find a way to make things run much smoother...Thankyou for your feedback and kind words...
All the very best Davie
No worries bro! My buddy and I are building a drift boat and it took me a few days just to get the first video condensed enough to be watchable. The easiest way to do it is to watch the video once through at normal speed. Then again but this time set markers where the important parts start and stop. Then go through again and use time remapping (or whatever your software calls it) to speed up the filler by 1000 to 2000 percent. Then watch it all the way through again, speed up the unimportant scenes as necessary until you get it to under 3 or 4 minutes.
Think about it like you were an experienced fly tyer watching someone else's video.
What do you NEED to see to tie the fly?
What at what parts would you stop paying attention or fast forward through?
I'd suggest trying this with a video and seeing what the end result is. Again, really loving your patterns, can't wait to see you take it to the next level.
And like I said as well, check out Fly Fishing in the Ozarks tying videos. They will give you a good idea of what a well trimmed video looks like. Take her easy and tight lines my man!
Oh, and if you're interested www.deaddriftproject.wordpress.com is my blog for our boat. I have a ton of content sitting on my computer that I haven't had a chance to put up. But the video there was originally 4 hours long. I got it down to under 4 minutes with some trials and errors.