Two-Tone Copper John Tutorial

[Troutbum11 0]

Enjoy! Hope it helps. Critiques welcome as always.

 

 

 

[ralphs007 0]

Very nice,thanks.

[Philly 0]

Very informative. I don't tie many Copper Johns. Since I was tying them off of pictures and just improvising as I went also, I learned that to get that nice, neat looking back I need to tie in a bit of flash material rather than just applying it to the peacock herl. I want to tie up few to send to my niece for her birthday. Her and her husband are living in Porcupine, SD. I do have some two tone fine wire, copper and green and red and green from an IPod ear bud that might make a couple of interesting ones.

[GC59 0]

The black copper combination is a nice touch, good job Troutbum.

[pacres 0]

I like fishing them more than I do tying them. Nice job on the fly.

[Dave G. 0]

Awesome little fly and I never thought of the two tones !!

[Troutbum11 0]

Thanks everyone! Glad you're enjoying it.

[Mlandry 0]

Nice video, keep up the good work.

 

Mike

[bozemancreative 0]

Cool fly! Great video

[tomcraw 0]

When I tie them two-tone I use one wire in medium and 1 in brassie. Not sure if you mentioned that as I watched your video with the sound off. Nice tutorial. I actually enjoy tying these copper johns quite a bit.

[mikechell 0]

Nice looking nymph. Flytire ties one with two colors, but he twists the wires before wrapping it, so it gives a totally different look.

[ev8d 0]

nice tie. i always tied two-tone wire flies with brassie size wire using two pieces for the predominant/body color and one other different colored piece of wire as the rib. i think it pops a little more. but seeing the medium size using one piece of each it looks just fine. i'll give it a try whenever i get back to tying

[Troutbum11 0]

Thanks for the comments guys!

 

Tomcraw- that sounds like an interesting technique, I'll give it a try!

[mikechell 0]

I did these a while back ... haven't caught anything on them, yet, except a few tiny bluegill.

I called them "Goldbutt Brassies".