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  1. I wonder which came first: Chuck Kraft's Kreelex Streamer or Dick Empie's Goldie (pictures from commercial websites)
  2. @yarddog59 I looked at the Bass Pro Shops website but I didn't see any Jerk Changer on offer. However they are offering Flymen and Fish-Skull products including a pack of 6 Flymen Finesse Changers at $49.99 and a Flymen Finesse Changer Fly Tying Kit (for 6 flies) at $28.95.
  3. @JRT @HillTop re: ultrasuede as tail material Flymen has come out with a new product called "Fish-Skull Frantic Tails" made of "synthetic" suede supposedly indestructible and very light. You'll find it on the "Fish-Skull Streamer Materials" page. There's a video showing how to tie these tails as well as a sbs on "how to use". Interesting but unfortunately they don't sell this suede in sheet form.
  4. Last year, on a whim, I bought a new body wrap to tie Game Changers: Alchemists Rainbow Flash Body Wrap in baitfish silver color. I thought that maybe I could color the top after tying it in and trimming it but no dice. So I used it to tie one Slow Water Game Changer (posted on the Finesse Changer thread) and sort of forgot about it although I found it easy to use (much more than the Finesse Body Chenille). I saw what was left of it the other day and decided to finish it by tying two GCs but I realized after tying the first shank assembly that I would come up short on the second fly. So I went for hybrids. Using it for the shank assemblies and then using grey Flash Blend (with silver, gold, blue,red and pink flash mixed in) for the hooks. It makes for pretty flashy GCs. About 4" long, with five shanks and a Mustad C70S #1/0 hook. These will go to a friend to try out this summer.
  5. I watched the video and at one point a sub-text appeared saying that this was shot last August. So it seems that it was indeed a preview of the flies that were to be marketed by Chocklett Factory. And I visited the Mad River website and the biggest Jerk Changer on offer (and out of stock) was the extra-large one, at 9" and on a #5/0 hook. And it seems to me when looking at the pictures of the Jerk Changer posted above by @HillTop or those of the Jerk Changers from the Mad River website is that the Jerk Changers produced by the Chocklett Factory are not true to the Chocklett "rule" that at least the front half of the fly be tied on a single shank.
  6. @JRT As Hill Top I've never worked with ultrasuede so I did a search, saw that it had many uses including in fly tying, that it came in various thicknesses and was available in fly shops. And I came upon an article about it by Norbert Renaud (on his website) who uses a lot of ultrasuede for the tails on his flies and his recommendation is to use 0.5mm micro suede for that purpose. But looking at the tails of the flies he posted in his article none of them had a V-tail like a Better Tail. So I'm wondering if the thickness of the ultrasuede is important. I looked at a few fly shops offering this material in small sheets and the thickness is not indicated. So do you buy yours from a fly shop or from another source? Thickness?
  7. @Bait Tailer Thanks. I understand spinning deer body hair to form that support cushion. But you also mention bucktail to build that support. How do you tie the BT to do that? In searching for that hover GC, I came upon a Musky Town tutorial video on tying a bucktail GC for musky fishing but instead of the BT hairs being used to form a support for the brush material, it's the reverse: the brush material is used as support for the BT hairs that become a collar surrounding the brush support. And the way that BT is tied is peculiar with only the bottom part being used and being tied reverse-style. It's worth taking a look at that video by just googling "bucktail game changer for musky fishing".
  8. @Bait Tailer In a previous post, you mentioned the "hover changer" in which you tie a "deer belly and bucktail support and a translucy veil". I tried to find out more about the hover GC but the only thing I found was a reference to it in an ad for an Internet tutorial that Chocklett gave on it in 2021. So I'd appreciate if you could give ud more info on it and more particularly how and where (presumably on each shank and on the hook) you tie this deer belly and BT support. Thanks.
  9. @Bait Tailer Answering to @HillTop, you wrote: "Nailed it. It's a platform.There's no one changer to rule them all". It made me ask myself: platform or style? Maybe just a matter of semantics but I think you're right. With that "structure" of shanks and hook(s), it's really a platform and, with the diversity of materials (and how to tie them) used to dress this platform, it really acommodates and results in many styles. To support this, a sample of GCs posted on that GameChanger Fly Facebook Group (with tiers from all over the world). Andras Szabo John Diez Laike Todd Joseph Nicosia Fletcher Sams Darren Jackson And, pushing style to another level, Fabrizio Mapelli ,
  10. I looked at one year of postings from the Facebook GameChanger Fly Group and didn't see a GC with Adams' Better Tails. Saw a lot of GCs with V-tails but practically all using Pacchiarini Double Tails (a lot of these were Sandrone's; he's a commercial tyer who definitely uses that group for marketing purposes). And didn't see any discussion comparing these Double Tails with feather tails.
  11. That's what Adams says and shows when he demonstrates the movement on his SWGC and GC.
  12. @pittedsopitted Your SWGC: nice but very different from what Chris Adams does. If I see correctly, there are no foam tabs on the shanks except on the first one behind the hook so I'm curious why. And also, if I may, how long is the fly, what hook and what shanks is it tied on as well as how thick is the foam used for the tabs? Thank you.
  13. On October 31 last, I posted a few pictures of GameChangers (including some by Tony Sandrone) I doenloaded from the "GameChanger Fly" group account on Facebook. To anybody interested in GCs, have a look at what's posted there, it's worth it. I'm not on Facebook and I just googled "GameChanger Fly Group" to get there. So a few more by Sandrone.
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