Flavinella Comparadun | A Great Dry Fly for a Very Important Hatch!

Flavinella Comparadun | A Great Dry Fly for a Very Important Hatch! | Fly Tying Tutorial

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20 күн бұрын

In this fly tying tutorial Cheech ties the Flavinella Comparadun!
I love fishing, the blue winged olive hatch every spring on many of the rivers near my home. They usually come out very strong and the fish key on them like crazy, which makes it a lethal and very entertaining combination!
My only beef with blue winged olives is that they hatch during nasty weather during the colder parts of the year and they’re really small. Now imagine that same hatch came back in the summertime and all of a sudden the flies are size 14! Yes! I know! It sounds amazing because it really is. If you are going to frequent a river that has a Flavinella hatch, it’s best to come prepared with a variety of dry Fly types, but the good old comparadun is about as good as it gets if your targeting adult mayflies.
Also, for you fact checkers, I do know that there is a difference between blue winged olives and flavs.
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@nickv3418 11 күн бұрын

Another great video! Huge fan of Cheech, the team and everything you're doing. Wish I lived closer to the shops. I'll keep paying shipping and handling supporting the brand.

@CoachGoodwin23 18 күн бұрын

Hey Cheech, love the channel. Love the shop! Thank you for doing all these vids... great stuff. One point of clarification, so take it for what it is worth. The Flav, especially on the Henry's Fork, is a Dark Brown -- not really an olive. I love the flexy floss body; very cool! The Flav (especially for the Henry's Fork): use brown biot (for the abdomen), brown Fish Food Bruiser (Brown) for the thorax, brown CDC (for the Last Chance version); and of course, the compara version with a darker hair. The reason for a darker hair is because the Flavs love the failing light during the evenings, so a darker hair is easier to see at night since the last color to leave the light spectrum are the darker colors i.e. black, etc. Beautiful fly for sure! Thanks again.

@jimholland1592 18 күн бұрын

Good morning Cheech ☕️☕️, Another great looking bug and explanation from the man👍

@bretthumphries7911 14 күн бұрын

I like to rub my materials and tools with an unscented dryer sheet. Tight lines

@addisonholtzhafer8196 18 күн бұрын

We outside

@realityobservationalist7290 18 күн бұрын

I don't know why, but I never fish comparaduns for some reason. I guess it always struck me as more imitative of a spent mayfly because the wings stick out 90 degrees, at least in the silhouette. Do people fish these as emergers, cripples, adult duns, spent, or all the above? What's the best application of a comparadun?

@GeorgeSemel 18 күн бұрын

You are missing out. I been tying Comparaduns since the early 1980's a good 40+ years. Tie a sparkel dun for the merger, as shown here for the adult, and with you could tie it as a spent spinner. They are cheap to tie and with the threads like nano silk makes it fairly easy. Even if they look like crap they will fish and fish very well. Its a fun fly to tie. Its worth the effort. Cheech makes it look easy and it is once to tie a few dozen. Charlie Craven got a good video on this one, So does Barry Ord Clark just off the top of my head. The key is good hair, and nano silk or GSP makes tying a lot easier than back in the 1980's with 6/0 danville. That thread does work but you will break it.

@realityobservationalist7290 18 күн бұрын

@@GeorgeSemel , I've bought them, tied them, and they're always in my box, but they never hit the water. I'll have to make an effort to use them more. cheers.

@frankyaun 17 күн бұрын

Well, I’ve been tying comparaduns since the 1860’s, but not this good.

@sirmegallot3276 7 күн бұрын

I tend to fish sparkle duns, compariduns have sometimes twisted my leader pretty badly as the wing acts like a fan. The more compact sparkle dun wing cuts through the air and turns over better for me, especially in larger sizes. I don't know if this is anyone else's experience, but it is something that has happened to me a couple times.