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Hey Scottie....Do you have a recipe for the top and bottom patterns? They all look great.

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Hey Scottie....Do you have a recipe for the top and bottom patterns? They all look great.

 

Top pattern is just a craft fur tail with some chartreuse ice dub at the back and picked out then home made eyes tied in. A merkin style body of tan EP then some silli legs just tied in at dumbells and allowed to come over the body. As I'm targeting trigger fish I used a size four owner flyliner, but you could use your own preferred hook.

 

The bottom fly is just a turneffe crab, here's a video

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I do dig those crab flies Scotsman, great work.

 

Here is a crease fly I did. I had to cut off the original head and redo it. The original was white but I colored the head red (hard to beat the old red head color pattern) but then I coated it with Silvercreek's resin and it left a very brittle coat that cracked whenI squeezed it slightly. I pealed off the resin and then added Sally Hansens and the colors bled. I then got pissed and took a razor to it. I think I'll stick with what I usually do which is to coat it with fabric fusion instead

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haha! that's what I was saying. I'll probably get it hung a tree top first cast

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Popovich's Ultra Shrimp. I didn't have the right color hackle to match the body but hopefully the fish aren't art critics

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Getting ready for Snook season to open Monday. These are about 5" long and on 2/0 and 3/0 hooks. The shrimp is 4.5". Other than the shrimp these are all tied using mostly Farar blends. The one mullet has a bit of gray fish scale over the back.

 

 

 

 

 

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Welcome Mondo. Love the flies especially the chartreuse ones. What is the giant black one meant to target? Down here a cobia would slurp that baby down fast.

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Here you go fall flys....first one is an albie (little tunny) fly that works no matter what the bait. It works in blitzing fish when stripped at a medium to slow speed like a easy meal. The second is a Clouser Half/Half that works here in NJ, it's a fly that is eaten. Third fly is a peanut bunker that is a fall staple forage fish and next fly is a Holographic Crease Fly. The next is a Mullet fly which are running in Sept and Oct a favorite meal of bass and blues plus big fluke eat em. Late in Nov and Dec herring head this way so the last one is a sea herring. I do carry other flys like Deceivers and Clousers and Popovics candies.

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