How to prepare bucktail for tying, how to catch and manipulate bucktail to achieve a symmetrical distribution, and a breakdown of Bob Popovics Bucktail Deceiver Fleye Design.

A breakdown of Bob Popovics' BULKhead Technique and Fleye Design. Emphasis on Hair Selection for Bulkhead Tying, catching materials perpendicular to hook axis, and building a symmetrical thread cone with light tension to control the flair.

Breaking down a Bucktail for specific Hair selection relative to Technique and Application! Bottom Third - Flair! BULKhead, Reverse BULKhead, Muddler Head/Buford Mid Third - Longest Hair, Medium Flare, Maintains Shape Top Third - Shorter Hair, Least Flair, great for Tails and Clousers.

This video breaks down Bob Popovics' Hollow Fleye Technique - Reversing the bucktail to create the largest and most cast-able flies out there. How to catch material Perpendicularly, Evenly Distribute, Bring the Thread Forward, Lock in the "Set" Wraps, Build up a Thread Ball, walk Light Tension Thread back over the Bucktail setting the "Hollow Fleye" angle. - Rinse and Repeat.

This video breaks down Bob Popovics' Reverse BULKhead Technique - Reversing the bucktail to create the largest and most cast-able flies out there, while keeping the bucktail butts long for building density forward, pushing water, and balancing out heavy wire hooks for flies that suspend.

If you are familiar with working complex dubbing loops, this won't take more than a try or two to get right and its all down hill from there. For those of you who may not have as much experience, I hope this video dials in some details to ease the journey!

This video breaks down Bob Popovics' BEAST Fleye Design - an enormous Extended Body Hollow Fleye for imitating the largest forage out there. In addition, I added a edited Step By Step on my Musky BEAST and a full breakdown of the components and layout.

This video starts off a new series on tying Extended Body Flies, and focuses on the technique needed to start tying on Hard Monofilament. Hard Mono - Perlon Hard Monofilament Leader Material 30lb, 40lb, 50lb, 60lb

This video also Highlights one of Bob Popovics' favorite techniques - manipulating the fly Silhouette by pinching the bucktail into the desire shape upon setting the hair. The Dual Strand Extension is also useful for maintaining a constant orientation during the tying process for other fly styles outside of the Swimbait Hook.

This video breaks down Popovics' Hollow Tie Technique on a Hard Monofilament Extension followed by a discussion on Hollow tying on Mono vs. Dubbing Brush/BEAST extensions.

This video hopes to highlight possibilities in rigging tubes as a means to extend the fly body. This style of tying doesn't require any new technique to get started, can be lined through with nearly ANY material to connect it back to the hook (Mono, Floro, Nylon Coated Stainless Steel, and Nickel Titanium Wire (Knot 2 Kinky)), and has a large range of rigging options to best compliment a fly.

Diving into the nuance of Variable Tube Diameters, this video highlights the niche of the HMH Small Rigid Tubing with a breakdown of the Build-A-BEAST rigging with Extended Body Tubes.

Bob's Bucktail Deceiver is the foundation of nearly all Predator Flies, and certainly the Corner Stone of Bucktail Tying and Bucktail Fly Design. This pattern and these techniques will be used on repeat throughout the series as we discuss different variations for the Extension, of the Extended Body; highlighting different techniques to meet YOU where YOU are at in your tying and what materials you have available to you.