I love how you explain the physics behind the choices in your used materials!🤓

Great video!!!! I never get tired of watching you tie, brother. I really appreciate the amount of detail that you put into explaining not only the process but, the reason behind the process. Thanks for another great fly.

Really like the swim video, especially on the pause. Thanks again!

I have tied flies for years and have decided to venture into streamers... Thank you for your approach. Simplicity with great explanation. Thanks my friend.

Gunnar, Thanks for sharing this pattern. I tied some for a Bull Trout trip. The trout enthusiastically approved. I made some changes but tied them essentially as you instructed. It is by far one of the fishiest flies I have ever seen in the water.

Also, thanks for the tip on replacing deer hair with the strung fuzzy fiber. Brilliant!! Never cared much for working with deer hair. This is an awesome and in my opinion superior approach.

Thanks for the tutorial on Strung Fuzzy Fiber. What an awesome replacement/technique for replacing dear hair. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for a wonderful video and the chat at the end of the video. I used to fish 100 days a year for many years in a row. I just recently decided to get back into again. Obviously, bugs and meat patterns have progressed over that timespan. Your a great teacher. And I love the way you teach and how much understanding goes into the rhetoric.

Best tie video and pattern composition I have seen in a long time. Extremely well conceived design. Thanks.

I absolutely love your detailed explanations in hook choice and materials. I’ve learned a ton from watching your videos. Absolutely awesome stuff! Thanks!

Just recently found your channel and am loving it. I first started tying flies in 1977 without the aid of a vise and didn't own a vise until 1980. I later learned how to spin & stack deer hair for my Smallmouth bugs through trial and error. Your channel is very informative and I'm looking forward to watching all of your videos. Thanks for sharing.

@Gunnar_Brammer

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear Doug, hope you like what you find. Thanks for watching man!

Thanks Gunnar! Been anxious to see this after seeing the cool black ones on your FB page, especially the eyes. Going to the vice and will be fishing it tomorrow. As always, thanks for sharing.

Nice job Gunner. I am looking forward to tying it! Thanks for the tutorial !!

Awesome tutorial. Keep the videos coming. Lots of great techniques and in-depth explanation.

Great explanations of the materials and methods that you use and choose.

Thank you for an intelligent, well-explained pattern!

Awesome video man, I appreciate all the information while you were tying. I definitely need to learn how to build those brushes like you do.

Great explanation, well worth a watch. Thanks from down-under in NZ.

It never gets old brutha....well done!!!

Simple and genius fly! You’re the man, great video! Thanks!!

Mate your channel is ace! Definitely be tying some of these, cheers

Well done sir. Your construction ideas and steps made a great deal of sense. Suspended streamers are so important. Great use of materials!

I love the brush idea...sweet!

Fantastic tying and instruction will be trying these on Irish rivers cheers

Gotta say I love your videos man. You have a great talent!

Class video learn so much every time and the finished fly is lethal

Hell yea - great tutorial and yes! Manhandle it. If you don’t break something every now and again you probably aren’t using enough tension.

Awesome, thank's for the Masterclass!

Let me guess...you're an engineer? Haha love how much thought went into this.

Learned a lot awesome video

Casts great too. Both Skagit and traditional.

It would be interesting to see a tour of your tying station and layout

Love the looks of this streamer.i must find some!

Awesome video!

Dude, great explnnation , thank you.

Quick to do .I like it

Nice Job, sorry I missed you at Schulzty in ann arbor. Enjoy all our videos, and believe I am a better tier for it!

Gunnar....... Top shelf.. Wicked mint! ; )

Interesting theory on the on the hook momentum. So basically you want an action akin to a glide bait.

Hey Gunnar, Thanks for the video. I was looking for a tutorial on using strung fuzzy fiber and this is great. Do you try to trim the heads in a similar way to what Galloup does with deer hair: Flat bottom, fins on the sides? I couldn't really tell from watching. Thanks.

Love those eyes. I think I will try putting my wood lathe to work making some dubbing brushes. Do you have a suggestion for full sinking line I have a 10 wt. and tied many of your flies and started weighting them to compensate for the floating line. What do you suggest for pike and big browns in while be able to fish flats and deep edge. Your work is awesome and supper inspiring. Keeper coming.

Man , I have to buy couple of these for my 5WT ,

Nice fly thanks. do you have a video on how you put together your composite bugger brush? Thanks

Great vid as per usual. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and contagious enthusiasm. Would really like to get into the brushes and was wondering what size wire you use for your standard brushes? If you've answered this before I apologize and will certainly check through your videos to see.

@karldunphy17

6 жыл бұрын

It's ok I found the answer in you dynamic dubbing brushes part 1 thanks again

Very informative, what are you fishing for with this fly? Thanks.

Hi Gunnar, I also have a HMH they were built 10mi from my house, they moved but are still in Maine, I also have a Regal revolution and a nor-vise all 3 are built like a tank

@marksleeper3752

4 жыл бұрын

miles

Awesome video. I would love to pick your brain for a week.

Nice sir, subbbbbed

Easy tie. I guess you could tie a bunch really fast. Thanks.

Gunnar, have you ever tried doing the head as a brush as well? Would that save time, or does the wire of the brush end up being too bulky?

I'm convinced that the full sized death grip doesn't actually exist. Cannot find even a picture of it (and no, I don't believe the video tutorial by the guy with the soul patch is the actual death grip, I think he just tied the mini on bigger hooks).

Ca n you explain how you made the brush with hackle? Would love to make those to save time

I want to learn with you budd

What substitute could i use for the fuzzy fiber head? Ep fibers?

Can you get the same action of head movement coming down river?

Gunner why would you not put the strung fuzzy fiber in a brush?

I don’t have fuzzy fibers. I do have EP fibers which are kind of wavy. Could I use EP fibers instead, or do you think EP fibers are still too flimsy compared to fuzzy fibers?

They offer Steve Farrar’s SF blend in more color options than strung fuzzy fiber. Have you ever considered that material or do you think it is too stiff for this application?

@ArroyoGuitars

5 жыл бұрын

I have spun the SF, I think the fuzzy stuff is not as stiff, and the fuzzy stuff seems more easily workable into a head

Looks great. Mini articulated streamers are more suitable for our smaller UK rivers. One question, on these smaller patterns, do you think the rear hook point is needed or could you clip it off and just rely on the front hook?

@markworthington1895

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Finnis Good question, my thoughts exactly on cutting rear hook. I live in B.C. CA Where 2 hooks are banned.

@Gunnar_Brammer

6 жыл бұрын

The rear hook is certainly not necessary from the standpoint of missing fish, but the mass form the hook helps aid in the this particular flies action. You could easily swap the rear hook for a shank, but it may be worth bending your own shanks form thicker wire, adding sparse weight to the rear shank - say 5 turns of .025 on a thinner wire shank, or you may find it fishes well regardless.

@PeterFinnis

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gunnar. Yes, adding a few turns of lead wire to compensate makes sense

@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists

6 жыл бұрын

In our research that you can recreate, you will learn that the back hook will be the engaged hook when the water is cold. I've personally seen 90 percent of takes on the back hook in cold Spring waters. Not everyone believes in trailing hooks, but I do wonder if they are aware of how many fish they miss.

Gunnar, I stumbled onto your site after seeing a photo of the Mini Death Grip. I was watching you tie when I spied a tool I just have to ask about. I’ve been tying with an HMH vice for some 40+ years, and in fact talked with Bill Hunter many years ago (HMH = Hunter’s Mad House) at a Denver show. I was drifting along with you when you used a black clip around the barrel of the vise to secure the articulating hook. It looked like a perfect fit. What is that clip you used?

@Gunnar_Brammer

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Jim, it's just a small sized hair clip that you can find at wallgreens or wallmart, ect..... Usually by the hair products like shampoos, ect...

Thoughts on cutting the back hook? Doing so would eliminate the keel and allow the back hook to swim more freely, but it might also disrupt the rearward momentum that you're going for. Thoughts?

Can you fish this on a 5wt?

@trevorkerber3914

5 жыл бұрын

i want to know the same thing

30:48

Can a dude buy these somewhere?

i have tyed for along tme guess u call me a copier enjoy how u tell why u do things with me it was try somethings if they worked great more not work than dd by fishing

Talk to much