DOWN
ON THE UPSIDE
Ok so the deercreek pro team was once
again let out for the weekend for demonstration purposes, and for the general
public once again to throw bananas at scott kane and conan fyvie whilst me and
richy were doing the professional stuff and demonstrating the many fine
materials that deercreek do ….as always I was left with the pike and predator
flies which obviously is what I do and the other loons were demonstrating the
uv products on some nifty looking trout flies …..
Andy saunders psychiatrist said he wasn’t
allowed out this weekend as he was still soiling his pants due to a change in
his medication so there was no weird nasty rainbow trout sparkly things ,
although it has to be said we did miss him as we had nobody to fetch the teas
and coffees , granted we could have sent scott kane but his legs are so small
it takes him ages to get anywhere and it would have been cold by the time he
got back…..
After setting up (youll notice they put
me in the corner again) and bacon roll (£2.50 ffs) our food budget was spent so
as we couldn’t afford coffee we would just have to drink the free whisky the
venue provided instead bummer huh .
So this was a council run event and got
to say the venue was awesome and there was lots of trouties around as there was
some kind of international compaction on and the prize giving was taking place
here , the funniest thing ever was little lord ha ha know it all who was in the
England team trying to get information out of scott kane on how to tie a
particular fly , lets just say it would have been easier to get an intelligent
conversation out of conan fyvie than him getting the lowdown on that fly , arrogance gets you
knowhere, and he eventually walked away looking quite confused at the lack of
knowledge scott parted with
So a couple of points id pick up on
about the event is
1-
try
not to close the roads off in town due to a cycle event so people can actually
get to the thing
2-
mabey
advertise it a bit better
3-
£7.50
for a bloody burger is beyond a joke I don’t care if it is from an organic
lesbian cow fed on caviar and tucked up in a feather down bed every night that’s
just beyond expensive
Tying beautiful creatures
Ok so I rock up to these events as part
of the deercreek pro staff team and I get asked the same
Question all the time and that is do you
practice a lot before you tie here, well actually the truth is no I don’t in
fact have any idea what im going to be tying as usually when I get a pack of
materials just before the show so I really have no idea until im sat in front
of the vice , so keeps the brain ticking over I do however take some basics with me like
flash and bits of cape but other than that I have no idea really , and most of
the time folks are happy to see me tie whatever as once I get into my tying
stride I really just churn shoals out
This is always a popular colour choice especially
for Scottish waters made with gliss n glint plus which actually you can see
glinting away in the picture and score well on waters with high perch populations,
finished with gator eyes and diamond fine uv great wee pattern
At the moment im really loving mixing
stuff up with the tying by that I mean mixing synthetics and naturals and
actual they work very well together the fly above has a main body of gliss n
Glint plus mixed with a little extra
gold angel hair and some peacock heal along the back gives a nice contrast to
the jackpike green of the gliss sometimes I will also add just a few strands of
black along the back before the peacock just to give the illusion of back
colour , amazing only a few strands needed to get the effect
Im also loving using the jungle cock
this is hand dyed by chris rawle from chris_rawlecustomflies@hotmail.co.uk
he also does some fantastic bucktail , but be warned he only does small batches
so contact him to get on the waiting list , his stuff really is that good it
goes very fast you wont be disappointed
Mid morning ties lined up , I really
enjoy doing these shows and its great to get the products out there but you
know I keep hearing the same thing time after time from people when it comes to
uv products and that the bug bond question , now I really do not care what you
use but the fact that people think that buying a product from orvis means its
problem free well actually no that’s not the case , people were saying to me
they bought it and it cured tacky which obviously means it dosnt do what its
says on the tin and people are believing what so called pro guys are saying
about it and this leads them to believe that because somewhere like orvis sells
it well that’s the benchmark and all uv products are like that .
Well actually no that’s not the case ,
and as I said I don’t care what you use I like my fellow team mates demonstrate
deercreek tack free uv to folks at shows and each person we show converts
because it DOES do what it says on the tin , try it , come along to a show and
see for your self ask your local shop to stock it there’s a reason it says tack
free and there’s a reason more and more people are turning to it even the usa
shops like casters are selling out all time you have to ask your self why ……………
Team selfie
The pro team making a short video scott
kane is in the shot but because hes quite small the table is in the way
We were presented with a darn fine lunch
of the Most amazing smoked trout ive ever tasted im really sorry I cant
remember th chaps name who smokes it but
its bloody amazing , as you can see scott the magpie actually had most of it ,
well he is a growing laddie nice to see him with his teeth in as well
Was quite nice to give scott a lesson in
tying predator flies as you know he ties a fine yellow dancer but tying
predator flies is a whole different kettle of fish nice to see scott taking the
lesson seriously
i was give a load of miniatures for the
team so of course I had to keep them safe at the end of the show, where better
than my big gypsy proof fly box of course I was accused of trying to keep them
all for myself as if I was deaply shocked at this scandalous allegation and that’s
the thanks I get , conans extra whisky
glass had already been er borrowed from the table and no one owned up to that
one scott kane
So with that another show ends and
another highly successful show for deercreek massive thanks to the rest of the
pros for a great show and as always deercreeks was the busiest stall over the
weekend great job folks
Cheers
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