the next part we're gonna tie is a tarpon fly and what I'm gonna tie is a
lefties deceiver because the guides here at El Pescador Lodge like lefties
deceiver for tarpon particularly the past couple of days and they like a
white one with a little red or something so I'm gonna tie a pink and white lefty
to see where the deceiver is really a type of pattern you can tie it any color
you want it's more in the shape and the way the fly is constructed there's no
real standard pattern the deceiver is anything you want it to be as long as
it's tied in these particular steps so I'm going to tie a pink and white
Lefty's deceiver which should be a good tarpon fly on Savannah flat and I'll
Pescador lodge so the first thing we start with is a 100 hook 1 over 2 o hook
put that in the vise there we go so the first thing we do is cover the hook
shank start the thread all the way to the back right to where the bend starts
to tip over and then you're gonna take anywhere from four to six white saddle
hackles and you want the saddle hackles to be about the same shape and size you
want these hackles to have fairly wide bases fairly thick stems at the base so
it takes it's worth you're worth your time to to pick through and I want to
try to find six nice wide ones and then I'm I'm gonna lay them down on the table
three two a side and I'm gonna line them up so there's three I'm going to line
these up so if the tips are even and all the curvature is all facing the same way
and I'm going to set those aside then I'm gonna pick three more and I'm going
to do the same thing or the other side and lay these down on the table and line
them up all right and there's two ways of putting these bunches together
one is with concave sides two so that they're cupped that gives you a
slimmer fly that doesn't breathe as much the other way is to put the convex sides
together so that the feathers flare out for most patterns you want the concave
sides together for tarpon you want to fly that breathes and swims so I'm gonna
put the concave sides together so that the feathers splay out from each other
and give it a better swimming action in the water give it a pulsing motion so
what I'm going to do I'm gonna line up both bunches you could tie these in one
at a time or you can tie them in together I'm going to tie them in all
together I've got those one side got the other side I'm gonna line them up and
that's pretty good now the important thing with a deceiver is to make sure
that when you tie these in you tie it in you tie in some web and you tie them in
at the base here so I'm gonna come away in here and like so and I'm gonna lay
these on top of the hook shank and I'm gonna come down straight down and pinch
and secure them in place take about three wraps secure these guys in place
and take a look and they look like they're flaring pretty well doesn't have
to be perfect but you want it to be relatively symmetrical so you get them
where you want them and then you continue forward wrapping over these
butts binding down all that fluff and I'm gonna bring the butts up cut them
here so I've got some room to put a head on there and put my buck tail up front
now I'm gonna go back and forth and make it a smooth body okay so now we've got a
relatively smooth body not too worried about it because it's gonna be covered
up with the bucktail collar all right the next thing you do to turn the fly
upside down in the vise and you put on your belly first and I'm gonna get some
nice stiff coarse bucktail white cut it off the tail I'm going to pull all the
fine hairs out of the base clean it I have any real long ones that don't fit
in I'll pull them out too now the important thing in a deceiver is to make
sure that the bucktail extends beyond the bend of the hook and kind of melds
into those feathers two reasons one it gives your fly a better shape and two is
that it helps keep the fly from fouling around the bend of the hook so we're
gonna pinch this bucktail very tightly and pull it down secure it with about a
half a dozen wraps very tight tight as you can get them and then cut it off at
a little bit of an angle start to form that neat head and then we'll come and
wrap forward a little bit like so and then back the next thing you're gonna do
is tie in a red throat you can use crystal flash you can use flash a boo
helps to wet this stuff to keep it behaving
square it off and lefty krei is also found that you want a short fairly wide
throat you don't want this to extend way back into the wing so you just want a
little little suggestion of gills there so you make it short and fairly wide and
you just tie that in right there and that's it just a little suggestion of
red there in the throat and I'm gonna cut all the rest of this off like so and
then bind it down bind down the ends
tightly now you can turn the fly over
right side up now you're going to tie bucktail on top
in the eye the ideal is to have it encircle the hole hook so you're gonna
let it kind of roll over the top so that covers the whole hook another bunch of
bucktail about the same maybe a little bit smaller bunch then the first clean
it the same way clean all the junk short hairs and fuzz and stuff from the base
of the bucktail and then if you got any fibers that don't behave get rid of them
and then you want to make that the same length as the bottom bunch and then
again I'm gonna kind of let this roll on top of the hook so the covers really
covers the whole 360 degrees of the hook shank between the top and the bottom
very tight turns
trim the butt set a little bit of an angle cover up the butts come forward to
the I had a hook you're gonna get that nice tapered head
and then finally we're gonna put some pink bucktail over the top of this
probably you want to go if you can down into the base of bucktail into this part
here the hair is stiffer there and better for deceivers then up here where
it's fairly fine save that for trout streamers and things
like that clean the butts same as you did clean the ends
straighten it out clean the butts it looks good same length maybe a little
bit longer than the bottom bunch see how nicely that buck tail blends into the
wing and then and trap that on top okay if this buck tail flare is a little bit
you want a nice wide profile on your deceivers cut that buck tail it a little
bit of an angle bring it down a little bit and then finish your head and you
want to wrap tightly back and forth until you get a nice smooth head and all
the bucktail is covered up and then you wet finish and your deceiver is done and
wait finish by hand
who's my dubbing needle to tighten it up and then a lot of people put eyes on
their deceivers so look it's up the head cement and do a coat of head cement on
the top I'm good to let that head cement you come back into the hairs a little
bit so that there's they stay put and then what I'm going to do is wait till
this wait till this gets a little bit tacky turn the vise a little bit so if
the head cement flows evenly it doesn't take long for head cement to set and
then when it's almost dry put a couple eyes on there do there and then what
I'll do is give this a coat or two of head cement or epoxy after this dried a
little bit so that covers the eyes and protects them so they don't fall off now
that is a pink and white Lefty's Tarpon deceiver it'll breathe
pretty well in the water I'll give you some pretty good action with those
splayed saddle hackles
hi I'm Tom rosenbauer I hope you enjoyed this video if you liked this and you
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