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flysmallie

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  1. I've never been "grabbed" by any of those spinnerbait looking flies with the puff of krystal flash where the blade would be.... but if they work then I'm missing out. To me, the blade provides sound and vibrations at least as much as flash, and that is something we are largely unable to reproduce in flies. I KNOW, I know, there are flies with spinner blades, I make a few of them too, but it's just not the same. (big blade = difficult to cast on fly tackle) I've seen some lightweight plastic spinner blades in tackle-craft catalogs lately...... those might be suited to fly fishing.... great now I have something else to spend money on. Wow wouldn't that piss off the high-and-mighty types!

     

    100% agree. While these flies may very well catch fish, they in no way mimic a spinnerbait. The most important parts of a spinnerbait are flash and vibration. Putting a little poof of flash material in no way replaces the flash that is created from a spinnerbait blade that is spinning. And there is zero vibration from that poof. Not to mention the fact that you can't retrieve a fly like you retrieve a spinnerbait, it just won't happen.

     

    I have seen guys use a small spinnerbait blade on a fly to try to get that vibration, but everyone of them has a major issue. The weight that is needed to keep that blade from rolling the fly is typically just too much to be cast on a fly rod. Even if you use a plastic blade you still need that weight to keel the lure and keep it from rolling. And even if you do you still won't be able to retrieve it properly.

     

    Now that's not to say that these flies don't catch fish, I'm sure they do. But it's not the same as catching a fish on a spinnerbait. If you have never experienced an awesome day of spinnerbait fishing you need to do yourself a favor and try it out. Nothing beats it.


  2. Call it whatever you would like. I get tired of the purist rhetoric in fly fishing. I go to catch fish with a fly rod. Mostly bass. I don't call my flies lures even if that is what the resemble because you cast lures with gear.

     

     

    So is this a fly or is this a jig? I know what it resembles, thats why it looks like that. I just call it a fish catching mofo.

     

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  3. Surely this must be flies for ice fishing? Sorry don't tie them. The ice around here isn't trustworthy enough to venture out on to.

     

    Seriously, the coolest of flies must be from the classic salmon tiers. Their attention to detail and mastery of technique is second to none.

     

    One of the coolest patterns to my eye that I tie is the Ammonite Nymph. It caught me my best fish ever. A wild brown estimated between 3 and 4Kgs by the locals on the R. Nera in Umbria.

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    If you want some amusement sometime google this pattern sometime and compare what you see to Steve Thornton's original!

    Cheers,

    C.

    While the classics are beautiful I like yours better. I like flies I can stick a fish with. I know I could do that with yours.

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