My Booby's Don't Float

[Wanative]

What everyone else said, Dean. It's that happy medium. They don't need to float, but you don't want 'em to sag either. Up nice and neat where they can be seen. Sloppy is never good. Small to mid-size, as a lot of trout are easily spooked.

Saggy boobies not good.☺

 

[Old406Kid]

Are Rainy’s boobies, and the foam cylinders absorbing water? Let’s test them Monday.

No, the Sybai foam cylinders and Rainy's eyes are both still floating.
According to some other's comments it doesn't really matter but I guess my Libra mind makes it more important than it might really be.
This kinda says it all.

 

[Eastside]

A dozen or so years ago I bought a couple dozen booby flies from a source in England. The peanut like foam was wrapped in nylon stocking material. Dangerous subject.

A long time member of our local fly fishing club used to do tie suspended chironomids with foam wrapped in nylon stocking material. I’m up for a booby test float on Monday.

 

[Northern]

No, the Sybai foam cylinders and Rainy's eyes are both still floating.
According to some other's comments it doesn't really matter but I guess my Libra mind makes it more important than it might really be.
This kinda says it all.
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Clearly you yearn to design the Balanced Booby

 

[surf12foot]

They are floating like they are designed to. Many years ago when they came out in Scotland and was getting band along with the blob flies( catching way too many fish and also of the fish taking them so deep to release). One would cast out- let line sink to bottom(leader would be 2-2`1/2 feet) and do a very, very, very slow figure eight hand retrieve. Tried a few times but didn't have the patience for it - some of the guys that fished them would take maybe 10- 15 minutes to bring the fly back in.

 

[Buzzy]

They are floating like they are designed to. Many years ago when they came out in Scotland and was getting band along with the blob flies( catching way too many fish and also of the fish taking them so deep to release). One would cast out- let line sink to bottom(leader would be 2-2`1/2 feet) and do a very, very, very slow figure eight hand retrieve. Tried a few times but didn't have the patience for it - some of the guys that fished them would take maybe 10- 15 minutes to bring the fly back in.

I don't retrieve booby flies slowly. Maybe I'm doing it wrong...

 

[Northern]

I don't retrieve booby flies slowly. Maybe I'm doing it wrong...

That super slow or even static presentation is effective, but also when they tend to take the fly deep.
I try to keep em moving

 

[Ceviche]

Balanced Boobie?

 

[Buzzy]

That super slow or even static presentation is effective, but also when they tend to take the fly deep.
I try to keep em moving

I seem to lose more fish on booby fly presentations than I actually land. This "take the fly deep" hasn't been an issue for me with a booby (or with a blob) any more so than with other sunk flies. Maybe I'm misremembering? When I land a fish and the fly has been taken deep (it happens), I clip the leader and hope the trout survives.

 

[Old406Kid]

I seem to lose more fish on booby fly presentations than I actually land. This "take the fly deep" hasn't been an issue for me with a booby (or with a blob) any more so than with other sunk flies. Maybe I'm misremembering? When I land a fish and the fly has been taken deep (it happens), I clip the leader and hope the trout survives.

I don't fish them alot but haven't experienced the deep takes either.
If it ever became an issue I would definitely avoid the patterns and method.

 

[Old406Kid]

Or modify to be more like a popcorn beetle if you want it to float a bit more uniformly.

Thanks, I'm going to take your suggestion and add a few popcorn beetles like this to my box.

 

[Northern]

I seem to lose more fish on booby fly presentations than I actually land. This "take the fly deep" hasn't been an issue for me with a booby (or with a blob) any more so than with other sunk flies. Maybe I'm misremembering? When I land a fish and the fly has been taken deep (it happens), I clip the leader and hope the trout survives.

Maybe it's a stocker trout thing?

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

I seem to lose more fish on booby fly presentations than I actually land. This "take the fly deep" hasn't been an issue for me with a booby (or with a blob) any more so than with other sunk flies. Maybe I'm misremembering? When I land a fish and the fly has been taken deep (it happens), I clip the leader and hope the trout survives.

This is going to sound funny, but seriously, maybe your boobies are too big?

 

[RichS]

An organic booby for purists

Hook: Firehole 318 #8
Tail: Marabou
body: orange deer
Eyes: charteuse deer hair

It will work but it also took three times as long to tie as a conventional booby.

 

[troutpocket]

Valentines is coming!

 

[Old406Kid]

I'm going to try to replicate these two, purchased from North 40, that have been floating in a level orientation for several hours.

 

[hiddentalus]

Please lets us know Buzzy how the faboobie does. Still have at least 2 months of ice around here before I can try it.

 

[Mukman]

I've tried tying boobies and found that not all foam is created equal. Have to get closed cell foam. Lots of trial and error on the lakes to figure that out. I wish I would have thought of putting them in a bucket first.

 

[Wayne Kohan]

This booby worked. Rich gave me this one the last time I fished. I tied some of my own as well, they got plenty of action, but had knot failure and lost two of them to fish. At least I got to see the fish before the loss as they came straight up out of the water.

 

[Ceviche]

A long time member of our local fly fishing club used to do tie suspended chironomids with foam wrapped in nylon stocking material. I’m up for a booby test float on Monday.

That was the original Booby. I recall reading about them in a British fly fishing magazine, back before 2010.