wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Agree with you. That sounds like a perfect imitation of a severly wounded baitfish.
@Magill; can you make it dive a bit,too ?
What's in your vise?
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@Magill; can you make it dive a bit,too ?
I don’t know
Further testing required
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
I think the two of you might just have created a soon to be legendary fly rod jerk bait .
Beautiful fly
I’d like to innovate something in the field of tying flies but this ain’t it.
Wes Penny
Steelhead
Thank you Doc, appreciated
sadly, it's already been done, so I can't claim anything. This is more tweaking things to suit my needs (at least for me). Always good to bounce ideas around though.
Some small stuff for this weekend.
SF
SF
Dave Boyle
Life of the Party
Just got a load of buzzzer wrap from a Canadian shop. This is gunmetal, basically ASB but already cut and thin so ready to wrap.
It does crack me up where I have a load of different ties that all essentially look the same despite slightly different materials m.
Are we (or I) overthinking things? Wish I had a camera other than my phone.
Dave
It does crack me up where I have a load of different ties that all essentially look the same despite slightly different materials m.
Are we (or I) overthinking things? Wish I had a camera other than my phone.
Dave
Big fly fun last day or so:
A couple more bass bugs
A small one. Small bugs catch bass and can even catch big bass. They also draw lots of strikes from panfish too small to eat the fly and small bass.
Hook: TMC 8089 #10
Tail: 6 grizzly neck hackles
collar 1: grizzly
Collar two gray over white deer
Body: White over gray over white deer
eyes: 5 MM
Frog popper
Hook TMC 8089 #6
Weed Guard: 20# Mason hard mono
Tail: Cohen frog legs
Collar/body: Chartreuse over Black over yellow deer
Face: red over yellow deer
Front legs: SRF laser legs
Eyes: Spawnflyfish frog eyes
A small one. Small bugs catch bass and can even catch big bass. They also draw lots of strikes from panfish too small to eat the fly and small bass.
Hook: TMC 8089 #10
Tail: 6 grizzly neck hackles
collar 1: grizzly
Collar two gray over white deer
Body: White over gray over white deer
eyes: 5 MM
Frog popper
Hook TMC 8089 #6
Weed Guard: 20# Mason hard mono
Tail: Cohen frog legs
Collar/body: Chartreuse over Black over yellow deer
Face: red over yellow deer
Front legs: SRF laser legs
Eyes: Spawnflyfish frog eyes
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Do we overthink it? Oh, yeah. How about these guys? A "GM"shoot out? https://flyguys.net/product-reviews/gun-metal-shoot-out-best-gmc-chironomid-fly-material
UPDATE: Destruction tested two flies by (completely unscientifically) repeatedly casting it into a cinder block wall, Planned to cast it straight into the wall from 30’ away until both eyes gone. My youngest son picked 20 casts as a good number. Originally he picked “one-dy nine”-we may end up saving on college with that one.
Usual/“Standard” glue method: 7 casts before it lost one eye. 11 casts total, second eye gone. 20 casts, both eyes gone and material completely gone from tube.
Tab eyes: 15 casts before first eye popped off, tab stayed on. 17 casts second eye gone. 20 casts, tabs still on but head of fly coming loose. Material coming off.
So I went back to the desk and used some flexible waterproof contact cement I had from another project. Need a better applicator, but let it set, tied them on a new fly, and went back out. After 18 casts into the wall the material came off the tube. Tabs still attached to the plastic strip, one eye slightly loose. Eyes were seriously scratched up, but still “fishable” and could have been fixed. The rest of the fly was not fishable—synthetic fibers can get so fouled up!
