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Bluegill popper?
What's in your vise?
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Fred has LARGE hands, so I'm guessing that fly is bigger than most bluegill. This is Fred holding a 20" trout that looks more like a 12-incher than the big
big fish that it was.
A nighttime popper
Picture taken in my mostly shut marabou container. I have had some success with GITD materials for bass, although they don't seem to love them quite like lake trout and salmon do.
Hook: TMC 8089 #6
Tail: Purple and black silicone legs, glow in the dark flashabou
Body: purple and black deer hair
legs: Glow in the dark silicone legs
Eyes 6 MM Glow in the dark
Face- atomic glow, cut to shape, glued in place with Softex and UV resin around the edges after the Softex is fully hardened.
Picture taken in my mostly shut marabou container. I have had some success with GITD materials for bass, although they don't seem to love them quite like lake trout and salmon do.
Hook: TMC 8089 #6
Tail: Purple and black silicone legs, glow in the dark flashabou
Body: purple and black deer hair
legs: Glow in the dark silicone legs
Eyes 6 MM Glow in the dark
Face- atomic glow, cut to shape, glued in place with Softex and UV resin around the edges after the Softex is fully hardened.
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Bass, my giant ape like mitts make it like a bluegill popper.
Nice translucent flies!
Dark olive with wine wire and a few turns of burnt orange collar. Really liking wine as a distinct but muted color to rib the body. I was out last week and the flies were coming off and schucks around on the water; caught a couple on grey and blacks, my buddy did better with olives and brown
….Dunking only bloodworms 6” off the bottom will soon be over. iPhones take poor shots sometimes…
Dave
….Dunking only bloodworms 6” off the bottom will soon be over. iPhones take poor shots sometimes…Dave
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Bethke’s Pink Squirrel Nymph
John Bethke Originator
Hook - Knapek G or equivalent
Head - Gold bead
Thread - Pink
Tail - Pearl krystal flash
Body - Squirrel or hare's ear dubbing
Ribbing - Red wire
Collar - Pink Ultra Chenille or Ice Dubbing
101 Favorite Nymphs and Wet Flies: History, Tying Tips, and Fishing Strategies - David Klausmeyer
Tellico Hare's Ear Nymph
Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent, size 8-16
Thread - Brown
Tail - Pheasant tail fibers
Body: Tan rabbit dubbing
Rib - Black 3/0 thread or uni stretch
Back - Pheasant tail fibers
Hackle - Brown hen hackle
Al and Gretchen Beatty tied this version of the fly they call the Tellico Hare’s-ear Nymph. Although their pattern maintains the general style of the original Tellico Nymph, they substitute with other ingredients to create a more durable fly. They use rabbit dubbing, rather than floss, for the body. And they use tough, size 3/0 tying thread, rather than frail peacock herl, for the rib. The tail on the Tellico Hare’s-ear is the tips of a bunch of ring-necked pheasant tail fibers; they also use tail fiber for the back of the fly.
In lieu of dubbing, I used a hare's ear dubbing brush. Time to use up some dubbing brushes that don't get used very often.
101 Favorite Nymphs and Wet Flies: History, Tying Tips, and Fishing Strategies - David Klausmeyer
St Patrick
Winged Wet Fly
Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tail - Peacock herl
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Peacock herl
Hackle - Dun hen hackle
Trout - Ray Bergman
These little simi seal leeches in 12 and 14 have been good. Canadian black recently.
The black bugger I found the other day had the tail trimmed short for the short strikers. I had tried that too, but the answer for me was downsizing.
The black bugger I found the other day had the tail trimmed short for the short strikers. I had tried that too, but the answer for me was downsizing.
So, this one is only 8” long?…smaller early season tiger fly...
lol, it comes in just a touch under 6" tied on a 4/0 Aberdeen
A Damsel Nymph- I have these hooks laying around from an old order so I thought I would look for a use for them.
TMC 400T #10
Tail- light olive marabou
Abdomen- marabou from the tail pulled forward
Rib- Chartreuse uniwire
Wingcase: olive Zelon with UV resin covering
thorax- olive pheasant filoplume
legs- olive soft hackle
eyes- olive mono eyes
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The darkside version of the above early season tiger musky glide bait fly...
FTD big game fiber, FTD Northern Lights Black/Radioactive, FTD Crystal Hair Lavender, PrimoTail Grade AA 'After Dark', NMF Titan dubbed head bleeding black up top, UV purple on the underside & FTD dragon eyes.
FTD big game fiber, FTD Northern Lights Black/Radioactive, FTD Crystal Hair Lavender, PrimoTail Grade AA 'After Dark', NMF Titan dubbed head bleeding black up top, UV purple on the underside & FTD dragon eyes.
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Oliver1329
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Yes, the wide gape jig. I think you recommended them to me!