Tying Video: Galloup's Articulated Butt Monkey

[Kayser]

Thanks for the tips! But if I'm gonna start throwing #2 articulateds, I think I might have to build that 8wt I've been wanting for a while- gonna get a bit awkward on the 5wt.

Rob

[DaddyO]

Brian,

I am loving these videos. Keep up the good work!!

[Justin Spencer]

Brian

Are some of these articulated patterns better in the riffles, and some in frog water, deep shallow, etc. How do you decide which one to use, and do you have a favorite.

[dave potts]

Great fly and great video. Just right on the speed and pauses.

Dave

[Brian Wise]

Brian

Are some of these articulated patterns better in the riffles, and some in frog water, deep shallow, etc. How do you decide which one to use, and do you have a favorite.

LOADED question....but dead on the money.

I could write for days on streamers and ramble and ramble and ramble so I will make this as short as possible. My main thing about streamers is everyone thinks there are all these rules to fishing them. It HAS to be cloudy, raining, and generally horrid weather for fish to eat streamers......WHAT?!?!?! There are no rules, period. So keeping that in mind lets check this out.

Just like in all the other types of fishing we do, we have to cover as much water as possible...fishing every, square inch of the stream isn't always practical but ideal none-the-less. So in and around riffles are awesome to fish streamers and some of these flies will fish a riffle better than others on any given day. Completely dead-drifting these big, articulated patterns is a great way to cover water and sometimes hook those fish that will simply not move an inch to eat. I like the Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up for dead drifting or drifting with a twitch (the Bottoms Up is CRAZY for twitching.)

Frog water is typically a toss up and usually not water I tend to hang on for a long time, move through it with a few flies like the Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up.

Tailouts are awesome, period and typically where we hook a lot of the big fish we catch on the NFOW. There is so much going on in a tailout with drop-offs, structure, eddies, and just general goodness that you need to be versatile so toss flies like Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up.

Notice anything? All of those flies will work anywhere.....it just depends on what you do with them to fish the differing kinds of water. I usually give a fly a couple of good runs and if it doesn't get any action I will switch color, couple more good runs and no action I will switch flies.

[Justin Spencer]

So basically as long as you have the right color and pattern in front of a fish that is willing to eat, you should get a strike?

[Brian Wise]

hahaha, exactly! A knee-jerk reaction from a big fish is THE best way to get them to eat. I had a client say "That fish would have eaten a Snickers bar if it hit the water in front of his face" after he landed a 23" FAT brown.

Making the, for lack of a better word, 'lucky' cast that brings that streamer in a big fishes personal space is all it takes. Sounds pretty easy.....AAAHHHHHHHHHHH I have no hair left, you have seen me! (I kind of look like the yellow emoticons don't I, yikes) Doesn't matter what time of day it is, if there is high sun, or clouds.....ask this fish

He ate at around 11:30 in the morning, in June, on pretty flat water.....not a cloud in the sky.

[Arofishing]

Nice but I think you should incorporate some of that beard hair into the head (give it that personal touch).

I have ziplock bags full of beard hair, head hair, and my dog's hair. I am NOT going to any further south than the face to collect hair, though . I've been tying caddis flies with my pug's hair for the past month. Come to think of it, I think he needs to be combed again, he is starting to shed .

LOADED question....but dead on the money.

I could write for days on streamers and ramble and ramble and ramble so I will make this as short as possible. My main thing about streamers is everyone thinks there are all these rules to fishing them. It HAS to be cloudy, raining, and generally horrid weather for fish to eat streamers......WHAT?!?!?! There are no rules, period. So keeping that in mind lets check this out.

Just like in all the other types of fishing we do, we have to cover as much water as possible...fishing every, square inch of the stream isn't always practical but ideal none-the-less. So in and around riffles are awesome to fish streamers and some of these flies will fish a riffle better than others on any given day. Completely dead-drifting these big, articulated patterns is a great way to cover water and sometimes hook those fish that will simply not move an inch to eat. I like the Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up for dead drifting or drifting with a twitch (the Bottoms Up is CRAZY for twitching.)

Frog water is typically a toss up and usually not water I tend to hang on for a long time, move through it with a few flies like the Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up.

Tailouts are awesome, period and typically where we hook a lot of the big fish we catch on the NFOW. There is so much going on in a tailout with drop-offs, structure, eddies, and just general goodness that you need to be versatile so toss flies like Peanut Envy, Circus Peanut, Dungeon, Butt Monkey, and Bottoms Up.

Notice anything? All of those flies will work anywhere.....it just depends on what you do with them to fish the differing kinds of water. I usually give a fly a couple of good runs and if it doesn't get any action I will switch color, couple more good runs and no action I will switch flies.

Thanks, that was very helpful. I didn't know whether I was supposed to strip a streamer, let it drift, where I should put it, or anything. If I manage to fish any streamers during this nice weather I'll likely read this post over another half dozen times.