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Crawdad New Pattern Database Submission

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#1 Old Hat

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 04:44 PM

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by Old Hat:

Crawdad

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#2 Pelhament

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 04:47 PM

Very Cool!

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#3 Old Hat

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 04:47 PM

I put this one in the warmwater forum to contribute a bit more here. I have only used this for trout as this is what I have mostly gone after in the past. However since discovering smallmouth fishing last year I am putting some of these in a bass box. It should be effective. this is the only crawfish pattern I tie and fish. It is a variation of a Kelly Galloup fly.

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#4 BrianMyers

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 05:28 PM

Are fishing this on a sinktip or full sinking line?

They call it roadkill, We call it dubbing.

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#5 Curtis Fry

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 05:41 PM

VERY nice tie!!! Love the spun/flared hair there...very tight design.

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#6 Harold Ray

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 06:15 PM

That was a very good contribution, OH!

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#7 David Legg

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 06:40 PM

Great looking fly! That has a really nice shape the way the claws are set up. Looks like it would have nice movement when you strip it too.

The great thing about catch & release is that the fish can live to grow even larger.
In fact, I've known some fish to grow quite a bit larger before the fisherman even returned home.

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#8 Old Hat

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 07:39 PM

QUOTE (BrianMyers @ Feb 19 2010, 02:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Are fishing this on a sinktip or full sinking line?

I fish this either with a fast sinking leader or with an interchangeable tip line with about 20' tips of various sinking rates. The fly is heavily weighted with lead under the body.

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 07:42 PM

QUOTE (David Legg @ Feb 19 2010, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great looking fly! That has a really nice shape the way the claws are set up. Looks like it would have nice movement when you strip it too.

I like this design for that purpose. The spun head does a great job of pushing the claw strips out away from the body and keeping them from just collapsing on the strip.

Here's a couple other shots. I put them in the database but they are HUGE! when you open them.

crawdad_olive_side.jpg (824.55K)
Number of downloads: 17

crawdad_red_top.jpg (893.15K)
Number of downloads: 21

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#10 smallieFanatic

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 08:01 PM

Wow..Carl what a fly. Fabulous tying, I know using this would be unabashed murder on Smallmouth bass. I have to order some squirrel strips and try my hand at it.

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