Materials Per Fly: 26 schlappen feathers, 1/10 a fox tail, and 2 bags of dubbing. Kidding, that is one freaking cool fly!!!!
The fly is a pretty easy tie - it's a 10/0 Gami Octopus on doubled 80# spectra lashed to a 55mm Waddington shank, with an additional loop of 80# wire for stiffness. After that, there's 12 birdfur rachis, 4 schlappen, and 4 grizzly hen hackles. 30 wraps of .035 lead wire on the shank, and the body (back to front) is 4 turns EP crafty brush, the 2x repeated 10 turns white homemade nylon brush and 2 full spey marabou, capped off with 5 turns of white ep crafty brush.Materials Per Fly: 26 schlappen feathers, 1/10 a fox tail, and 2 bags of dubbing. Kidding, that is one freaking cool fly!!!!
Do you troll it or cast?
The actual f*** kind of sorcery are you into! Here I was thinking you downriggered it. I’m guessing that homemade head is at least T14 to get you to 60’.The fly is a pretty easy tie - it's a 10/0 Gami Octopus on doubled 80# spectra lashed to a 55mm Waddington shank, with an additional loop of 80# wire for stiffness. After that, there's 12 birdfur rachis, 4 schlappen, and 4 grizzly hen hackles. 30 wraps of .035 lead wire on the shank, and the body (back to front) is 4 turns EP crafty brush, the 2x repeated 10 turns white homemade nylon brush and 2 full spey marabou, capped off with 5 turns of white ep crafty brush.
Fished it in about 60' of water on a 12wt with a homemade 35' 670gr head, and needed a big wad of tungsten putty at the tippet knot to sink the fly as the same rate as the head. Not trolled, cast side current and allowed to swing, then a slooow retrieve to keep the fly within the zone.
I ended up landing 5, but they were all similar size. I need to find a reef with a bigger size cohort and try it there...
I want a sbs and then I want to morph it into something for bassThe actual f*** kind of sorcery are you into! Here I was thinking you downriggered it. I’m guessing that homemade head is at least T14 to get you to 60’.
I’m stupidly intrigued by this. I want a video. Hell I want on the boat.
Hahaha it's just flyfishin', really. No sorcery involved, just a lot of years learning the whens and wheres of my local fisheries, and a friend with a day off AND a charter boat loaded with bitchin' electronics...The actual f*** kind of sorcery are you into! Here I was thinking you downriggered it. I’m guessing that homemade head is at least T14 to get you to 60’.
I’m stupidly intrigued by this. I want a video. Hell I want on the boat.
I like the homemade chopped up setup, I haven’t started playing with it yet salt but I can tell it’s soon. Hell just to get down for Kokanee it might happen but heck those guys, 60-100lb 1:1 on a fly rod is awesome.Hahaha it's just flyfishin', really. No sorcery involved, just a lot of years learning the whens and wheres of my local fisheries, and a friend with a day off AND a charter boat loaded with bitchin' electronics...
The head is 30' of t20 mated up to a Rio OutBound Custom (t14/int) with all but 5' of the t14 chopped off. I tried to get the outbound (mono core) welded to the t20 (dacron(?) core), but the mono core of the outbound started to distort and lose strength juuuust as the covers were blending.
I ended up going loop-to-loop with 65# braided mono loops, a few nail knots, and a shitpile of uv knotsense - slightly annoying when it was going thru the guides, but oh, well.
I'm gonna set up another 12wt with 30' of t20 and 100yds of 65# spectra as running line the next time we go out - pretty sure I can hit 100' in about 90 seconds with that setup, as the intermediate running line on my original setup was a bit of a hindrance and was kiting once the tide started really moving.
I'm looking forward to getting my ass handed to me by the 60-100lb fish that start to show in July, although I would like to put a few line iterations thru the bantamweight fish before I move up a few divisions.
You must like changing flies a lot more then meLots of bass to be caught right now. The fly pattern is not too critical. View attachment 16727View attachment 16726View attachment 16728View attachment 16729View attachment 16731
Same.....almostI want a sbs and then I want to morph it into something for bass
Pelicans photobombing.The thin mint knock off I posted in the vice yesterday just tore it up today
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If I'm only going to take one line, full sink line is the way to go on a daily basis I think
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Felt like I was the USS Lexington and the sky was filled with Kates and Oscars
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The wife asked for one for dinner, and after her day yesterday I said I'd see what I could do. Got several so kept this one and called it. Probably the last one on purpose, water is getting pleasantly warm.
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Bail before the storm hit and the wind pins me or I become a lightning rod.
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Love the muddlers!@Zak , back at ya, I know you like muddlers, so trying something new in the lake. Grizzly wing version like I fished in the river last fall
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and a version with some flash
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looking for a splash to grab
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Nice fish. You need some better hooks, though!They wanted micro leeches today in mostly darker colors.