Capt Bill Baldus's Neon Knight

[Panama Red 0]

Capt. Bill Baldus ties some wicked flies and the Fly Fishing the 10,000 Islands web site showcases some sweet examples. I also just bought Drew Chicone's book, Snook Flies, which also contains this and several other really cool flies. i also have his book Feather Brain which is equally as informative.

 

I've been reading about beach fishing for snook around the 10K island area and Cape Ramono…Having nothing else to do but tie flies and plan fishing trips until the doc says so, I gave this one a try.

 

[atxdiscgolfer 0]

Nice looking pattern; i tied some Crystal D's from that Snook fly book for the Baitfish Swap. I bought his ebook for Bonefish fly patterns, great step by steps and really making me wish that i could test some of those patterns on some Bahamas bonefish; i almost have the wifes approval but not quite.

[Peterjay 0]

Beautiful ties Dave. Tom Kintz' anchovy patterns are built along the same lines, and they're real ass-kickers on bass and albacore.

[Steve P 0]

That's beautiful work there. Looks like it would certainly fish well. If I can scavenge a pattern I think I'll have some of those in the box for the shad run. It should really perform well on white bass.

 

Steve

[Chefben4 0]

Man you do know how to tie!! Look good. May have to track down that pattern.

[Peterjay 0]

Hey, I forgot to mention that I really like the pic.

[Peterjay 0]

Hey Dave - here's a batch of patterns to peruse while you're laid up. Capt. Chris Newsome is one of the premier tyers in the Chesapeake area. I love looking at his stuff, which is well worth stealing.

 

http://www.bayflyfishing.com/flytying.htm

[Panama Red 0]

Thanks guys, I'm hoping to see how it (and the other 300) works come April.

 

Golf, I know what you mean about a Bahamas, I've had a jones to fish the Christmas Islands for a long time…Funny thing is my wife works for Delta and she's always trying to get me to fly somewhere, and she likes to fish! One of these days I'm going to take her up on it. For now I live vicariously through Ben's travel blog.

 

Here's the site for Capt. Baldus's flies, the Neon Knight is literally nothing more than a hollow tie, gils, another hollow ties and some eyes….trim to shape. http://www.flyfish10k.com

 

It's kinda cool, since I've been under house arrest I have gone through forums, e-mags, and google search looking at flies, techniques, and places to fish. I've learned quite a bit and really come to appreciate the many different styles and skills out there. An example of the diversity in baitfish patters based on region or even age group is amazing. I have always loved the flies used to catch stripers on the east coast, folks there create functional art with buck tail and hackle. To me these are traditional kind of flies. Then there's a younger generation of folks I found like the group over at Skinny Water Culture who tie and fish with a bit of attitude, it's there I found Nick Davis and 239 flies. I haven't bought a commercially tied fly in years, however, Nick has a baitfish called the Light Saber…just had to have some. In building the epoxy head he mixes eye shadow in the resin before adding hardner, how cool is that.

 

Huge difference in tying styles, both works of art that will put fish on the boat.

 

Nick's light sabers