I hear ya, I tie em with deer hair a lot too. 
I favorite fly for reds in the grass is the muddler minnow. I watch the minnows skimming the surface and when I throw the muddler out, it looks, for all the world, just like one of the other minnows… to me. And like you said, CH, it cool to see the red suck it off the surface.
any of yall catch the flood tide this weekend?
quote:Most of my spots need a little more water than 5.9'.
Originally posted by stalkingtheflatsany of yall catch the flood tide this weekend?
friday evening was really good. Got two on shrimp gurgle and one on a floating borski slider. should have had at least that many more, but i have a slightly fractured left wrist so my hauling hand wasn’t 100%. Water was perfect for about 2hrs.
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Originally posted by CH Allenfriday evening was really good. Got two on shrimp gurgle and one on a floating borski slider. should have had at least that many more, but i have a slightly fractured left wrist so my hauling hand wasn’t 100%. Water was perfect for about 2hrs.
o nice well like i went out this morning in my kkayak and paddled to a couple of spots that were flooded…saw only 1 and it would not take my spoon fly… didnt see anymore after that
No offense, but I love foam flies. I will take a foam pattern over using goop/gink/shake.
I also love all kinds of alternate use products (like the plastic nails). To me that’s part of the creative and fun.
Still spend a ton in fly shops and use plenty of natural materials too.
Shoot…I really need to just fish more.
i dont understand why frayed mylar tube as in the crab is cool but flattened as in spoon is “forbidden” (but you and i we been thru that and such is not our fate–BD). the original dupre spoon which you can find on the web is nasty to tie. epoxy the inside of the mylar and hold it till it sets. all kinds of tricks to keep it from permanently bonding your fingers. the shots of some of those guys hands look like the moon surface. not me. im saving my liver for other stuff. then someone discovered that super glue will not stick to a ziplock bag(this is handy beyond fly tying). so you can dose the mylar with superglue; drop it in the bag; and hold it from the outside till it sets in the spoon shape. then you can just hard as nails it to get a little better hold. this means you have to put the fluff(if any) on afterwards or just use the corner of a bag and be careful. the dupres are great and if you tie them epoxy style you will understand the cost. the ez way you dont have near as much time in so if they crush its not the great loss.
one of my hassles has been finding the mylar rope in quantity. far as i know it doesnt exist(lots of search time). it was originally used for tv antenna support but i guess cable/dish killed that. i have found a much coarser but pre flattened version that is used for bundling cable in show cars and high end home theatre type settings. it is different but makes a good spoon. the flatness sort of cancels the difficulty of getting it started. the other hassle is getting a hook in the right shape. there are some circles that are about right and some offsets that can be flattened or the bending of the 34007.
but to make everybody else happy just use a crab.
he’s pretty white for a fly guy
my next goal is to tie an all feather spoonfly. will be back.
he’s pretty white for a fly guy
Sure hope you post photo of that. I tried using Ginger duck flank. Laminated a couple w hard as nails. Color was awesome, but shape was wrong and it was to delicate too hold up to more than one fish. I was going for a crab. Spoon would have been better. The whole experiment didn’t really work for me. Hey, they can’t all be winners. Sounds like you have an idea. Hope you have better luck than me, and pls share the results when you get to it!