Iroc_Jeff

The round rubber legs from Janns Netcraft float. I just tested some scraps i had in a bowl. https://www.jannsnetcraft.com/skirt-making-material/366200.aspx

That's looking pretty good. I have two old brass lamps I want to paint and get new shades for since they look a bit aged. Here in Pa we are like you but I can fish and golf courses just opened up. Went out yesterday for the first time in 8 weeks after rebuilding my swing in the downtime. I've been tying fly's and jigs. Just finished Deep Space Nine on Hulu. Also working on a mobile/PC game i'm making through Unity. I still go to work for 4 days then work at home for 4 days and repeat. So, I have a lot of time on my hands.

Thanks guys! I was shocked as I thought this was a smallmouth. Once he got closer in and I saw the yellow I couldn't believe it was a perch as I never caught one there before. Can't wait til water and current get back to normal so I can post fly caught fish too. Not enough room to even cast a spinning rod sometimes.

I went out yesterday as I wanted to try my new smallmouth setup. Got an ARK Viper Medium-Light rod and a Daiwa Legalis 2500xd reel to go with it. Water still high and current fast so I was back in the same shallows I fished on Easter Sunday. Got a smallmouth fairly early on a black foxtail jig I tied which was really awesome. Got stuck often and lost some jigs and a tube. Switched over to the casting spoons again and then caught a perch. I would have taken a picture of the smallmouth but I did not want to muscle the fish up out of the water with the new rod so I went down the hill to get it, then coming back up I sunk into the mud then slipped into the river up to my shins. I let him go and dug my way back up the 5 foot slope. I did find a Callaway Diablo golf ball while stuck there which was in pretty good condition. Probably someone from the neighborhood behind hit it over the dike. Perch came about an hour later and nothing else for the rest of the afternoon. I did do a lot of walking and fished a ton of spots. I even found a great spot I can setup all my carp gear, too. Here's the perch.

Or when my grandpa died because we didn't know his blood type. He just kept telling us to be positive.

That's pretty cool. is it just chenille, legs, and some sort of hair ? Does it float or sink ?

Did you guys hear about the guy down in Florida who stole a truck full of campbells soup? Between you and me i hope they put him away for MMmm MMmm good...

This design is my favorite popper, a simple frog-like one. I use one olive and black hackle for each leg and tie them in bending out. These have some wear but they work fine.

When I lived in Florida my buddy bought a used bass boat and he was terrible at the ramp. I had to back up up the trailer and do most of the work. We had some adventures around the boat ramps. Most of them involved me walking into the water to fix the boat that was not on the trailer correctly. But, you learned from it. Not really a ramp issue, but a fun boating mishap we had while fishing a river. Took about 30 minutes to get to where we wanted to fish. Then, only used the trolling motor and drifted around. About 8:45pm we decide to head home. Motor won't start. Turns out some solenoid went bad and we couldn't even pull start the thing. So, 1.2 mph for 2 hours until we hit the other river moving against us, then we had to paddle AND use the trolling motor to get back to the launch for another 20 minutes. Fun stuff.

I made a hackle gauge pretty cheap. I used a small piece of wood and printed the gauge out. Glued it to the wood, covered that in box tape, and put a finishing nail to wrap around. Works really well when i actually use it. Edit.. I actually found the image I used. I just cut the hackle part out since its all i needed. http://flytyingnewandold.blogspot.com/2012/12/dubois-hackle-gauge.html

I bought one of these 300 hook packs years ago. Mostly dry fly stuff with some streamer hooks. Got some really cool Flash material as a freebie as well. Hooks weren't bad at all. Had a few where the eye wasn't formed 100% correct but overall no other issues. They didn't break or bend with fish. Thanks for mentioning this place as I had forgotten the seller's name.

Sorry. I work in IT. Basically between 4 different browsers and 2 operating systems, and a test on other sites who use this forums software, it probably ain't us... lol

So, Chrome, IE, Edge and Safari have same issue. PoopDeck is on some version of iOS, probably 13.x.x and I've Windows 10 64 bit. Just for fun I went to some other forums powered by Invision Communities like this one and 3 random sites all worked fine. Probably something client side is causing this issue for some of us. BTW, here's the link if you want to try. Jets, Soap Opera, and IBS sites are all public. https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Invision-Power-Board

I'll add that I have the same issue. If I go to the April Fly's from the Vice thread, click on it I'll end up on Page 1. If I want to go to page 8, nothing happens. Its like a dead link. Now I use Chrome 64 bit mainly, but have tested this on Edge and IE 11 and I get the same issue on all 3 browsers. This also happens on the Go To page link as well as the NEXT/PREV buttons or arrow buttons.

They will kinda scrunch together when you strip it in and then once it stops they open up and ungulate and stuff. When the fly falls the claws rise and they get full. It actually looks pretty cool under water. I tested it Easter Sunday and was really impressed. However, the tail has to go in its current form. Too hard to tie a knot in that mess. Probably just going to leave it bare in the tail.

Nope. That appears to be Catch .44 . This is with Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Charles Grodin, Art Garfunkel and a slew of others. It feels a lot like MASH the movie but more darker/surreal.

I watched Catch-22 last night, really odd dark comedy/drama but a good watch. Great cast , too.

oh what timing i have.. lol Susquehanna, around Wilkes Barre area

I got out Sunday for the first time. The river is really moving fast and water is up so its not great fishing. After getting skunked at a park i drove to my favorite spot which is along a dike, well, that's all underwater. So, I walked further down river and found an island that formed a small backwater and gave that a go. Turned out well but hard to cast being overgrown with trees and really muddy. Got this smallmouth on a 3/16oz casting spoon, blue sparkle. Got skunked on the fly rod all day.

If you paint your spoons with nail polish they'll come out better. Take some sand paper, doesn't really matter as long as its over 80 grit and scuff them up a bit. Then just paint thin coat on, let it dry, and then repeat as many times as you need. The clearer the nail polish obviously the more coats. Then, just use Nail polish hardener on it. Let them sit overnight or longer before you use them. Eventually, they will chip but they will last a long time. When they do chip take a razor blade and scrape the rest off and paint again. The 99 cent ICE stuff is pretty good. The darker blue sparkle one (goes on lighter) is a bass killer I used in florida and pa on casting spoons.

JoJo Rabbit was really good

I work for a global IT company that is owned by a larger, foreign IT company and they sent every location a lot of pump gallons of hand sanitizer about 2 weeks ago. There have been travel bans in effect for multiple countries. We get devices from all over the US and Canada and its all overnight shipping both ways so I've been wiping stuff down with alcohol since this could live on a surface for a few days. More a precaution and piece of mind for me, basically. Other than that just washing my hands more.

I had bug back or something a while ago but can't seem to find it. I'm leaning towards this stuff right now https://www.tridentflyfishing.com/hareline-variegatedchenille.html in the Olive/Black and Orange Black colors. Or, this version here https://www.tridentflyfishing.com/hareline-speckled-chenille.html since the flash will kinda be reminiscent of a shell. I get you on the weeds/hangup tail design. I'm fortunate the Susquehanna doesn't have much in terms of vegetation where I fish but it is rocky. The next incarnation I'll leave it tailless or really cut down on the amount of hair I use. I'm partial to having something there, though This is also going to be my first year using Tubes which should be fun. Another absolute killer lure in my neck of the woods is the Rebel Wee Craw in Chartreuse. Its a small mouth killer on the Susquehanna so one of my craw patters is going to be a chartreuse one.

I have some dubbing so maybe the next version I make I'll try it out. Thanks.

Decided to try and create a Crayfish fly from the materials I have laying around a few nights ago. At any rate, I combined a few images I saw of other patterns and tied this guy up. Basically, its a longer size 6 clouser hook, chenille, deer hair, grizzly marabou for claws, flash/rubber legs for antenna, Burnt tip line for eyes, and a grizzly hackle for legs. For weight I tied a piece of lead free wire on top of the hook to the point. Then, I tied in another piece about 3/4 that length on top of the first one. Turned out well when I tested it as the fly sits claws up and also falls slow, too. Overall, I don't like the grizzly hackle legs and the next one I make I'm going to use rubber legs. I'm also looking at changing the chenille to something else. Cactus chenille maybe. I dunno.