I like this pattern. Quick to tie and works.
I like this pattern. Quick to tie and works.
Me too! I like the needle trick!Oooh, I'll definitely tie some of those up! Thanks!
Yeah, that seems like an easy way to get them positioned right. Maybe just brush a bit of glue on the middle before pulling it into placeMe too! I like the needle trick!
I tied one from the video last night and put a dab of super glue on the sexy floss and pulled the glued portion into the body. Worked great!Yeah, that seems like an easy way to get them positioned right. Maybe just brush a bit of glue on the middle before pulling it into place
Maybe that explains one place I fish out there where the trout like a black microleech stripped really fast. I should tie short, fat ones!I don’t have any special patterns for boatmen. But I have seen them more frequently, or at least noticed them, in recent years. A couple of times right after ice off in the basin I’ve been in the midst of a “hatch” when they splash down hard, sometimes impacting the bottom of my boat. Sometimes I’ve had success with a boatman pattern. Other times a micro leech under an indicator has been as good as anything.
Wow - that's crazy!Sort of related….boatmen may have incredible scenting abilities. I used to deer hunt the juniper/sagebrush country in central Oregon, always the first week of October -summer's end. By then everything was parched and arid. About 1/3 mile south of our regular campsite was a “reservoir”, a cattle watering hole that had diminished that year to an opaque sludge of mud, cow pee and water about 10 feet in diameter. After one morning hunt we were sitting in front of the tents eating lunch and heard “tink”. Then again, “tink,” “tink tink.”. As one of the kids I got assigned to solve the mystery of the sound source. On the chuck table the chef du jour had left a couple inches of water in a 15” white enamel wash basin. Boatmen were apparently abandoning the drying mudhole and following the scent of the fresh water to dive into that small basin at full speed. A few more crashed into the metal bowl as we watched. Tink! Sorry for the hijack.