Been tooling around the web for some new patterns, found some so I tied them up, probably get out this weekend and try them out
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Nice! They look real good to me but I’m not a fish lol…
2007 Scout 221 150 Yamaha 4 stroke
Oh they will work I have had many hookups with patterns that mirror these closely, these are just small variances of the other … and for the bait fish, well he looks like a baitfish haha
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they look good… your getting better at the little things (thread control, material manipulation… etc) the little things make the whole pattern look better… keep it up…
the only critique i would have is using that fish skull pattern… it will work fine in deep water blind casting for trout, but throw that thing shallow and kiss it goodbye… As we progress through the winter months the fish will hold in the shallow water, but sometimes they don’t want a pattern on the bottom (sometimes it doesn’t matter)… I would focus on patterns that you can control the depth of, ie. something that “suspends”… If you want to go with a baitfish pattern I would go with an EP baitfish style pattern, like a glades minnow or something… this is one of mine…
or use those brushes you been making for something like this…
or if you wanna get fancy, make one that rides hook up like this guy…
Like I said, keep it up…
Mad Mike
"to hell with insane… I’m OUTsane!!! "
What keeps a fly that rides hook up from flipping over and riding hook down?
2007 Scout 221 150 Yamaha 4 stroke
placement of dumbbell eyes … Thanks Mike appreciate that, the fish skull eyes were something I had just laying around … No purple saddle so no pretty bait fish haha
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Originally posted by xxmadfirexxWhat keeps a fly that rides hook up from flipping over and riding hook down?
2007 Scout 221 150 Yamaha 4 stroke
It depends on what side of the shank you tie the material on. Like on madmikes EP minnows, the fibers are typically tied in evenly around the hook shank but they ride hook down because of the weight of the hook that is past the point of the bend to the business end of the hook. On the flies posted by hurricane the crabs have dumbell (hourglass shaped weights) or bead chain which do the same thing but are lighter. The purpose of these is to get the fly down faster but because of the naturally larger weight of them they sink faster than the rest of the fly, which causes the fly to flip. The crab flies pictured are going to sit on the bottom hook point up because the dumbells are tied on the “underside” or “top” depending on how you look at it. Hope this makes sense. Dont know if that came out how i wanted it to but i think you can understand.
And nice flies hurricane.
Thanks Pez
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