How to Tie the Film Fly

[Music Playing] Ross Mueller: Most of you who know me, know that my main interest is the Spring Creeks in the Coulee country of Southwestern Wisconsin, this area, and so that's when I mainly trying to be, because it's pretty much all I fish. I fish about half of river; I fish the Pine River in this region. I think I was -- I got to pay attention. You have used that -- did you guys use that? Male Speaker: Okay, we will that tool for my dummy. Ross Mueller: I use this tool for my double -- you see the tool has got one holder here. But anyhow there is these couple of string here on the head of the tool. I make a little, and I secure the hook and I run my lock to be high. And this would not be for you, as a beginner start off doing this, you want to do the other way and, we will tell you one way or the other way. Then for this fly, we'll use this black squirrel, and we'll use this -- but if I were you, I would just use this stuff. I would ignore the black squirrel and here's your stuff. But this is a mixture of black squirrel and here's your -- plus I am going to do the same thing here, and make a noodle, so to speak, I can wax one side of this, and make a little noodle with dubbing. And what this gives you is a little more spiky wax. I tell you, 85% of one side of my fly bugs are tide with stuff. And you just lay it on one arm of the loop and really kind of impose it, now I can see a underneath a little more, so I can just drop that -- I guess I am doubling up here. I am going to just mix a little more gum, so the little gum, little more black squirrel. This black squirrel made, its demise on the -- it's a local trader. And I tell you, if you keep your own, if you do the roadkills, or if you hunt and things, and so you shoot the ducks with their fine feathers, you pick squirrel tails, and dead squirrels of the road, fumigate them. Get what you need and then, put them in the zip lock page, and spray, and let him sit for a while. I am just spinning this droving rope. Male Speaker: There is more breezing under that. Ross Mueller: No, no. Spin the droving rope and you get a nice, really nice -- I mean you are droving, and you just create the body, clump go about doing almost, but you leave about a little less than a third and I got just about the perfect, the one I am building here. And you got to leave a little room right behind the hook, and just get rid of this and then, this really spiky stuff here. I have to capture that, you can just kind of brush it around, and now, then this is too spiky, so you can just trim this. You can always trim on the top of the hook, because if you trim down here, you'll lose it here. And you hear the sound of the clunk at the bottom, hitting the floor. Okay. So that's a nice body. Back to our hackles, fliers, you're talking tools a little while ago. Everything when you're tying a bunch of toys, I want everything easy grab. This is easy, that's easy, and these things stay over here, and this thing always stays right there, and also I like a clear nice gray background between my eyes and the fly. I don't like shiny things in my way. I like a nice contrast. Again, we grab the fly, hand on, fairly feathered hand on, and it usually will just flatten out absolutely perfectly as it start. One, two, three, this one didn't work probably perfectly, but it's not the -- capture these, and we may almost have ourselves, a really great spring creek, film fly.