The JerkMate

 This is a keeper, i have tried and tested this fly over the summer  months and i just cannot wait for the autumn season to arrive to really have fun with this one!

The foam in the head helps give hanging time , the hard head aids in cutting water and change in totally random directions. Body in magnum rabbit pulses and keeps moving during pauses and on the drops.

The added stiffness of the body and base of the tail due to the gluing helps with keeping the tail away so it doesn't foul itself on the hook.And i thing the stiff body helps keeping the bait on track after each strip.

Talking about strips... I like to vary my retrieves, but sharpish small to medium strips followed by good pauses drives the pike mad, very much like playing with a cat, there's only so much teasing they can take.....

I tried to make an "easy" cranked version with lips attached to the bottom of the head, but even with two dumbells tied on the hook and shank this version was very tricky to balance properly to have a cranked effect to it. It needed multiple lip cutting, and even adding so much weight that it was not an "easy" tie anymore. So i gave up on the idea ( they did look good). But to be honest i rather use this jerky version, so much more fun to fish. Try as well to tie them without the shank, they will will hang even more! Put it on a floating line and its such a visual fly for the angler, pure pleasure and fun to make a pike rise to your offering.

Also an other version to add even more hang! Tie without the head , and finish the head with lightly packed bucktail, works wonder on an intermediate or sink line.

Update from HQ

 Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts lately, not much fishing due to the warm summer waters here. But things are changing weather wise, second storm is coming tonight, with high winds and again a lot of water.

Talking about water, the levels are high at the moment here, with many venues having the levels gone up onto the fields. The temperature still remain pretty high with an average of 18º / 19º

But this will change fast very soon, days are getting shorter, and less daylight will naturally drop the water temps.

 

With the Covid situation i am still out of work, 100% of my clients still face a quarantine upon arrival here. Looking into the future i don't think the situation will change much for this autumn and winter. I really do hope to be open for spring 2021...

So this is going to give me plenty free time over the next few months. Projects are being made, concentrating on publishing more Youtube videos. The channel has grown a good bit this year so it's giving me a good moral boost to keep at it. Tying videos are the most popular, but i'm also getting requests for more reviews about the gear i use and set ups. So i will be more than happy to make a few for you guys. I know you hear this on every videos you watch on Youtube and it gets very repetitive, this is why i usually never ask this on my videos, but please do subscribe and share if you enjoy the contents. 80% of the views the channel gets is from non subscribed viewers...

If you have requests for a specific videos, leave me a comment here, or on my Instagram ( this is where i get more of the requests).

 

I am currently working on my next tying video and it looks like it's going to be the bomb! As usual a streamer that you haven't seen before and one that does catch fish too!

To finish this little update i give you the latest short film from Patagonia, thanks again for the support and keep safe!