Matt's Gnat
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Published 2012-03-16
Hook: Caddis pupa hook (here, a Tiemco 2488), size 20.
Thread: 6/0, burgundy or claret.
Body: Peacock herl.
Dubbing: Natural snowshoe rabbit’s foot, in a waxed dubbing loop.
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All Comments (20)
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There are so many tying videos these days that are just remakes and reruns but this fly is truly innovative, nicely done!
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Bought my first good fly rod, a 5-wt Orvis HLS, from Matt in the 1990s when he owned an Orvis shop in NJ.
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1:00 Holy shit what a flawless tag removal!
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Nice Video, great instruction, really good music
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Great looking fly m8!! So simple, so " fishy" looking and a great idea.
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I'm going to have to try this with poly yarn
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Photography so good wouldn't know its a size 20
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Nice fly👍🏻
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Great fly!
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How did he come up with this 😮he's a genius
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Looks a lot like Roger Hill's Stillborn Midge without the shuck. Instead of discarding the guard hairs, you could save them to use with Hill's pattern.
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Love it!
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Had great success this weekend, first time using the pattern. Is the GN relevant anymore? Hmmm....
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Well, that is an interesting way of tying those. What I do, is I tie the griffiths gnat as usual but I counter rib the fly with 8 x tippet material. makes makes for a very durable fly and its quick. Thou shoe shoe rabbit foot has its merits. In the end if I have a fly come apart on a 20 inch Rainbow or Brown ok not a problem , I will recycle the hook by tying another fly on it. I figure for a 20 inch trout, I got my money worth out of the fly!
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The tool you use to wrap the dupping rope, where do you find those/ I've looked all over.
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How large can this be tied? I often fish a size 16. Is that too Large for this fly?
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Hey im new to dry fly-tying, when do yoy use this fly and what does it immitates. (Sorry for my bad english im from norway)
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interesting to me that replacing 1 material with another and you get a cataloged new fly with your name on it. But do that with any other fly and its just the same fly with a different material. Example, if I replaced the copper wire on a copper john with colored mono, it would still be a copper john, nobody would allow me to get away with calling it anything else. Or if I replaced the mallard feather on a zoo cougar with a turkey feather, it'd still be considered a zoo cougar....
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