Booby Pattern

[Wetswinger]

I just bought some materials to tie up some Boobys. I'll try an all black one, to mimic a dragonfly nymph and a tequila pattern, which seems popular. Just curious which booby patterns you like for Westside, low elevation lakes.? This is all new to me...thanks..

 

[Zak]

Following because I'm curious, too.

 

[ColinShots]

I have a lot of success with boobies tied with FNF Jelly Fritz in "Hulk" with white foam eyes. Tequila works pretty consistently as well. I tied a few more "natural" color patterns, like olive with black eyes, but haven't had a chance to fish them yet.

 

[Wayne Kohan]

Black fritz-like material and chartreuse booby eyes has worked well for me on the east side, when I feel the need to use a booby.

 

[Divad]

I too use the FNF Fritz for boobies, Hulk and Orange Sunburst have been good for me. Also the “Pellet” colorway… that one’s been really good on stockers and surprisingly, steelhead

 

[mickey rat]

After some experiment I’ve come down to tying on a #10 Ahrex FW581 and using 5mm foam cylinder cut to size. Also using FNF Fritz with Biscuit being my go to color out of the gate.
WARNING Be prepared for some ridicule from your ‘purist’ buddies.

 

[Wetswinger]

I’ll try “naturals” first but I like options. You could be hard found to call many of the attractors in use nowadays, natural. Last week after using most everything in my box, I got near skunked twice. This was after three sessions of epic success. Same lakes, same flys. Go figure.. So if I can catch fish on a booby, especially as a last resort, great, I’m there..

 

[Herkileez]

I just bought some materials to tie up some Boobys. I'll try an all black one, to mimic a dragonfly nymph and a tequila pattern, which seems popular. Just curious which booby patterns you like for Westside, low elevation lakes.? This is all new to me...thanks..

I've had good results with this pattern. Rather than doing oversize booby eyes, I downsize them more in proportion to an actual DF nymph and do a wrap of craft foam around the shank, before over-wrapping with body material (ie: dubbing/chenille, wire, etc)

Dollarstore flip-flop, hole punch, dremel cup stone, craft foam, pheasant tail legs.

 

[Wetswinger]

I've had good results with this pattern. Rather than doing oversize booby eyes, I downsize them more in proportion to an actual DF nymph and do a wrap of craft foam around the shank, before over-wrapping with body material (ie: dubbing/chenille, wire, etc)

Dollarstore flip-flop, hole punch, dremel cup stone, craft foam, pheasant tail legs.

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Looks nice. So they float above the line eh.?

 

[Herkileez]

Looks nice. So they float above the line eh.?

Yes. I use a type 6 full sink line, 5-6' tippet. A slow strip pulls the fly down, then it bobs back up between strips.

 

[Flymph]

OK, what's the difference between the same bug (none booby) held under an indicator and slowly retrieved?

 

[Snopro]

OK, what's the difference between the same bug (none booby) held under an indicator and slowly retrieved?

On the retrieve, booby moves down, indicator fly moves up. On the pause, booby rises up, indicator fly sinks.

 

[krusty]

After some experiment I’ve come down to tying on a #10 Ahrex FW581 and using 5mm foam cylinder cut to size. Also using FNF Fritz with Biscuit being my go to color out of the gate.
WARNING Be prepared for some ridicule from your ‘purist’ buddies.

Purists...until you're catching fish and they're not.

Same with blobs!

 

[Herkileez]

Purists...until you're catching fish and they're not.

Same with blobs!

In an age of graphite rods, plastic coated lines, fluorocarbon leaders, mylar/foam/synthetic fly materials...ain't no "purists" round here....

 

[Paul_]

Sometimes the fish are really keyed in on the booby hatch.

 

[RCF]

On the retrieve, booby moves down, indicator fly moves up. On the pause, booby rises up, indicator fly sinks.

I have been fishing a DF nymph for 25+ years that floats up on the pause. I troll a lot and make sure I pause periodically. I call it a twitch. I am amazed how often that it results in a strike. Yes, I have tried the downward sinking nymph on my second rod fished simultaneously. The results are definitely better with an upward float motion. That is my story and I am sticking to it.

On a side note: I do not fish booby flies mainly because they seem to get embedded deeper in the mouth/throat. I fish a Carey Special variant that floats upward that results in the hook embedded in the lip.

 

[sidg]

My favorite color combination.
Biscuit/shripm and chartreuse with pink tail.

 

[Mike Cline]

Here’s something I wrote about Boobies back in the late 1990s. This is a repost from the original. Sorry the images are no longer around.

The Bass Pond-Boobies for Bass by Slapout Mike

An interesting Article from American River Fishing homepage: Originally called the Booby Nymph and tied for stillwater trout, this is one Europe

www.tapatalk.com

 

[sidg]

Here’s something I wrote about Boobies back in the late 1990s. This is a repost from the original. Sorry the images are no longer around.

The Bass Pond-Boobies for Bass by Slapout Mike

An interesting Article from American River Fishing homepage: Originally called the Booby Nymph and tied for stillwater trout, this is one Europe

www.tapatalk.com

Mike,

Nice writeup on booby fly.

Thank you,
Sid

 

[fkajwg]

I have been fishing a DF nymph for 25+ years that floats up on the pause. I troll a lot and make sure I pause periodically. I call it a twitch. I am amazed how often that it results in a strike. Yes, I have tried the downward sinking nymph on my second rod fished simultaneously. The results are definitely better with an upward float motion. That is my story and I am sticking to it.

On a side note: I do not fish booby flies mainly because they seem to get embedded deeper in the mouth/throat. I fish a Carey Special variant that floats upward that results in the hook embedded in the lip.

Totally agree that a variety of flies can be made floating, after having been introduced by a friend to a foam fly w a lip in front, I forget the name of the fly and its inventor.

Over time I found that some flies w foam may wiggle without a lip just from the turbulence a bulk of foam creates, while other more streamlined flies still bene fit from the float-up and pull-down motions and effects.

Some foam on a damsel nymph back can keep it in the surface, and I have even tied wooly buggers with w wrap of a strip of foam instead of chenille. The fuzziness of the wrapped hackle, with the shaft nestled down in between the edges of the spiraling wrapped foam, and marabou tail still seems to be enough fuzz in spite of the smooth foam. Pretty durable too.

Jay