Testing flys in the pool or bath tub!

[Pastor Ron 0]

How many have ever tested some of your flys in the swimming pool or bath tub?

 

I've done both.... many times!! Just ask my wife!!!

 

I've actually gotten in the pool and checked the swimming action on some nymphs and streamers! :hyst: :hyst:

 

I've timed descent rates of various weighted nymphs.

 

 

If you tie a piece of mono to the inlet jet and leave the other end with a perfection loop you can attach various flies and see how they react in a current flow!

 

My wife says that I am a very sick man!

[Fly Tyer Guy 0]

I've tested them in the sink, not much room, but it works.

[Wellman 0]

Ive tested them in my aquarium with hungry trout!

[David Legg 0]

My wife says that I am a very sick man!

 

I feel your pain. My wife calls fishing the f word. ; )

[smallieFanatic 0]

Ive tested them in my aquarium with hungry trout!

 

I also have tested the floating qualities of my dries in my aquarium. It works!

[flytosser 0]

I try the new patterns in the aquarium too!! Works great, better than getting to the water and wasting time testing them there after you've tied up a bunch.

 

Go catch a fish,

 

Gary

[Firetiger 0]

And I thought I was overdoing it when I went scuba diving to watch a buzzer hatch first hand!

[oatka 0]

I test my bead head nymphs in the toilet, and if i want them to sink faster, i hit the flusher!

[steelie 0]

Good Day,

 

I have a ten gallon aquarium in my tyuing room just for this purpose. Depending on what I am testing I may have a pump on or off to create current flow. In fact, there is a company out there that makes test units! I want to say they are out of the U.K....

 

Steelie

[crawfly 0]

Actually, I think you are referring to .......

 

http://www.tubeflytech.com/

 

It is a US based offering and there may be others I don't know. Very cool but I don't have one.