smallieFanatic 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 I have visited innumerable fly tying sites and searched through many books and have not once found a good crayfish pattern. Does anyone have a good, easy, crayfish pattern? :wallbash: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fred H. 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 I have visited innumerable fly tying sites and searched through many books and have not once found a good crayfish pattern. Does anyone have a good, easy, crayfish pattern? :wallbash: Look in the step by step colomn on this site for Hannie's ABC. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Futzer 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Go to the fly Db and do a word search for Crayfish, Crawdad, and mudbug. If that does not satisfy, PM Day5 and tell him his flies are mediocre. Cheers Futzer. OK, sorry you're a new poster don't do #2. That would just be too ugly. sorry search his new crawfish pattern. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Yup, that'll work! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
day5 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Geeze futzer you make me out to be some sort of crazy loon! hmmmm now that I think about it that might be a easy thing to do. Smalliefan we share a common interest. Smallies! Did you know the diet of smallmouth over 15 inches in environments with crayfish consist of 74% crayfish? I sell 2 different patterns on my site the kzoocraw and the spidercraw I also have a instructional DVD that covers both. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DHise 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Plus, all of day5's flies and dvd's are on special. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chrismac 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Easy and suggestive, I like the Barr Meatwhistle. The only thing i do diferantly is to replace the marabou collar with a crosscut rabbit strip. I like the way it opens up underwater. It looks like a pissed off crawfish. I tie them in olive, brown and tan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrismartin 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 I tie up a lot of these, and catch a lot of fish on them... you can find the material list and instructions in the database. It's called the Full Motion Crayfish Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tyrite 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Here is one that I have created!!! tyrite Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smokinprice 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 Skip Morris has a pretty easy pattern in his book and video called The Art of Tying the Bass Fly. Its a baby crawdad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crotalus 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2008 I tie a crossbred version of Kelly Galloup's and Bob Clouser's crayfish. i use the underbody and claws from Galloup's and the shellback from Clouser's. In the end it is a pretty easy fly to tie as crayfish go. here is a link with a photo of the final version. http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=crayfish Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FishyboY 0 Report post Posted December 11, 2008 the CrawMad easy crayfish pattern just look under flies that i have tied Green Tan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smallieFanatic 0 Report post Posted December 13, 2008 Here is one that I have created!!! tyrite Thats a nice fly, Tyrite. A little fancier than i wanted though... But it looks great! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlyTyingPhotographer 0 Report post Posted January 17, 2009 This is one that I created and tied. It was featured in the Summer 2006 issue of Eastern Fly Fishing magazine. It's in the database. It's called Rob's Crayfish. The smaller sizes are absolute killers for trout. Just toss 'em into the riffles and hang on ! I had these in my box for quite a while until I actually tried them. I was fishing for trout in the spring and we had an unusually high amount of rainfall. I was looking for something in my box that was heavily weighted to get down deep because water was extremely high and conventional patterns weren't working. I ended up fishing a tandem of 2 flies. A weighted Crayfish and a weighted rubber legs Perla stonefly on the dropper. I discovered a killer combination. Both flies were very effective. The Crayfish draws viscious strikes from trout. Believe it or not, I've never tried it for Smallies. It should be good though. I usually tie them in #6, 8 and 10 on #9672 Mustads. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest rich mc Report post Posted January 17, 2009 a friendof mine has had his craw accepted by rainy's flies called the hairy fodder. instructions can be seen on georgia riverfishing.com. it should be up on rainys web soon. rich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites