What's in your vise?
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Pink Nighty
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Bull candy
a couple of my favorite color scheme for winter steelhead. The variety on the left seemed to attract a bit of attention last year. There's some purple flash underneath that really pops when it gets wet and is swimming. I've come to prefer the Ahrex PR330 Aberdeen Predator for just about everything other than muskies. These are tied on the 1/0 with a counter balance up front to give a little extra weight and help it stay on keel.
Thank you for sharin'!This is the chassis, that’s 15lb braid and 3.8mm tungsten black bead in the front.
Do not use that Core hook, it’s soft as shitI bought it to try out but have delegated it to a sacrificial role, snip the hook bend when you’re done.
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A couple marine worms.
SF
SF
Going to have to try that mono loop method, thanks Brian!
God only knows what this is, but some English chap says it's the bomb for lake fishing. I'll report back..
Scudley Do Right
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Wayne Kohan
Life of the Party
I’ve tried a couple of those red ones with no love given. But can’t say I fished them for long or very confidently. And confidence is always the key.
Scottp
Legend
Real nice job getting that Amherst tippet to behave; lovely fly.
Regards,
Scott
Scudley Do Right
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Thanks
I tried the red version on Lone last winter and did OK but a std bloodworm may have done as well. My point I guess is they work but it was not lights out.
Dave
Some worms with that mono loop trick through the tail, thanks @Stonedfish but if these don’t catch I’m going to hold you personally accountable
Some more marine worms. I had a period last winter where these things were really getting chewed on. Hoping for a repeat this winter. Might need to tie up some tan, bluish and redish ones as wells.
SF
SF
All right. Kinda experimental, but not really because I know I can get to at least act like a jerk bait. 30mm shank off the back of a TP610 with saddles, bucktail and a rattle for both weight and sound (weight to jam into the front to make it 'jack knife'. Then my standard construction up to the dubbed head and pressed it vertically once I glued the front. Hoping it'll give it a bit more glide bait action than most of my flies. If not, it's super easy to reform the head into the round.
Brian - are these all rabbit strip, straight cut for the tail and x-cut wrapped for the body? Or is the body wrap a different material?
Cool photos!
great worm photos! seems like a variegated mop material would work good for those....although, nothing really moves like rabbit.