What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
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My mind is spinning! I'm thinking smallmouth off a heavy sink!
Ya, I'm really intrigued by the concept of this fly. In the sound it could be fished in just about any scenario by just changing the sink rate of the line. One area we fished at low tide a few weeks ago was super flat and shallow. A pattern like this could be fished on, say, a type 3 line in 3' of water but still stay up off the bottom.
No doubt the same would apply to your lakes. I'm looking forward to seeing how it swims in various scenarios out there.
Did you use a @SpawnFlyFish shank up front?
I used two 20mm shanks from Fish Skull as I only had small jig shanks from Spawn. I'll have to make an order for some of their smaller shanks as I think a bit smaller would give more versatility for a lot of movement without making it absurdly big. This one, with a Size 6 Ahrex NS172 and two 20mm shanks is about 3-3 1/2"
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Ok. I asked because I could not see the hook. After a looong bit of study I finally caught sight of it
Dave Boyle
Life of the Party
I was thinking similar but as a leech for trout, a more natural booby so to speak. An olive one just above the weed beds could be deadly.My mind is spinning! I'm thinking smallmouth off a heavy sink!
Dave
SpeyrodGB
Steelhead
That is a crazy pattern.
Working with different colors and getting a feel for the proportions.
Are you doing the foam the same way as video or just spiral wrap?
Curious what your hookup ratio is when you fish that. I tied up a couple of different, but similar worms from the same tier. I landed a handful on that pattern but missed a lot of fish on it today. It got a ton of interest though. In the end went back to a standard worm type pattern and hookup ratio was much better. Was thinking it might be how src take these worms. Next time out, I might modify a tad and putting the hook middle back to see if that helps. Also could have just been some funky fish today
. Here is the pattern…also very messy. Marabou dubbing loops can really make it snow marabou if you are not careful..ha.
Divad
Whitefish
Curious what your hookup ratio is when you fish that. I tied up a couple of different, but similar worms from the same tier. I landed a handful on that pattern but missed a lot of fish on it today. It got a ton of interest though. In the end went back to a standard worm type pattern and hookup ratio was much better. Was thinking it might be how src take these worms. Next time out, I might modify a tad and putting the hook middle back to see if that helps. Also could have just been some funky fish today
Here is the pattern…also very messy. Marabou dubbing loops can really make it snow marabou if you are not careful..ha.
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Have you thought about placing the hook a little further up, replacing a shank section? You might have better hookup as I’m sure some cutts attack these from the side.
Cool pattern will whip some up once my shank reorder gets here.
we got lots
I keep forgetting that I should tie up more white streamer patterns and use markers to make them the color I want rather than struggle with tying in a bunch of different colored material...
It certainly is an interesting pattern...almost like a swing leech
Curious what your hookup ratio is when you fish that. I tied up a couple of different, but similar worms from the same tier. I landed a handful on that pattern but missed a lot of fish on it today. It got a ton of interest though. In the end went back to a standard worm type pattern and hookup ratio was much better. Was thinking it might be how src take these worms. Next time out, I might modify a tad and putting the hook middle back to see if that helps. Also could have just been some funky fish today
Here is the pattern…also very messy. Marabou dubbing loops can really make it snow marabou if you are not careful..ha.
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Cool pattern.
I’ve caught cutts in the past with similar worm patterns with the hook back like that similar to a stinger pattern, but have more luck with patterns tied on standard hooks. To me, our saltwater cutthroat are more head hunters.
SF
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