Wind is blowing up a bit sending rolling waves onto the flat, waves just short of coming over the stern of my canoe. I’m anchored up in a oyster bed minefield that makes a natural funnel for them as they come out of the creek on a dropping tide.
If I’m bound and determined to catch my first red on the fly and I’m casting blind into oysters with (I think) too much disturbance on top for a gurgler or similar top water what do I throw? Water was murky as well. I’m looking for the fly equivalent to a redfish magic, something that can be easily kept high enough to not lose a fly per cast and can be found easily in murky water.
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A dark colored M4 or a chunky black clouser… you have to work harder to keep it up off the oysters but it’ll pay off… If it’s late or early int he day a black gurgler will still bring 'em up… Darker bait colors or bright copper colored ones will be easier to see for the fish… if they are in a eatin mindset you’ll hook up… Don’t worry about losing flies, just fish 
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My search for M4 fly gave me fly reels and lots of rifles, is that a lesser known pattern? I’m still building my box so I only have a few Clousers tied at the moment, will do some in black shortly, wonder if I could hide a rattle in there somewhere. I’m playing with ideas to get something similar to a Clouser that will suspend more than sink. It would be nice to have the option of working it a little slower without hanging up on the bottom.
I like seaducers over oysters. Try black/red and flashy. Can be fished slowly w/o fear of snagging, lotsa wiggle too.
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Seducers look awsome, I need to tie some up before I forget how I saw him do it on the video.
Tonight I made what will hopefully be my ugliest fly ever but I think it might be functional: large clouserish black minnow with lots of flash and tiny bead eyes to help offset the fact that it has a large rattle shaped tumor on it’s belly. Hopefully it will be noisy, visible in muddy water and slow to sink allowing time to find it speed strips.
M4 = Mad Mikes Mud Minnow
it’s a mudminnow pattern that Mad Mike came up with. it has lead eyes so it does sink but if you tie them wiht bead chain they are lighter but still sink… the seadeucers are dead on tho… once they get wet they will suspend and wear fish out. Like I said dark water = dark colors…
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The Bay Street Bunny is the bomb and has amazed me many times. I even caught a flounder on one. You can find them at Bat Street Outfitters in Beaufort, SC.
Buckducer. Seaducer with bucktail instead of hackle feather tail. Toss it on a sink tip line
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cut crab or mullet. Sorry, blind fishing in poor conditions aint fun.
I would say a mud minnow pattern as well, one with a little heavier eyes. I tie one with some copper flash and olive zonker strips that is the bomb!
JohnH0802
