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Playing with Fish Skulls Some Bunny Baitfish

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#1 User is offline   Pelhament 


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Posted 19 August 2010 - 11:43 AM

I tied up some streamers last night using Fish Skulls. I have to say that I really like them.

Here are some bunny baitfish I tied up using a pattern from their website.

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 12:07 PM

Those look great, you did good on them!
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Posted 19 August 2010 - 12:22 PM

Very cool flies! I'm pretty new to tying big Bass/Pike flies; how do you get the hair to cluster like that on the shank? I assume its a bunny strip and you've wrapped it around the shank, or is there a different way? They look awesome. headbang.gif
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Posted 19 August 2010 - 12:37 PM

QUOTE (muskymags @ Aug 19 2010, 10:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Very cool flies! I'm pretty new to tying big Bass/Pike flies; how do you get the hair to cluster like that on the shank? I assume its a bunny strip and you've wrapped it around the shank, or is there a different way? They look awesome. headbang.gif



Correct, its just a palmered rabbit strip. Cross-cut works best for palmering.
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Posted 19 August 2010 - 03:23 PM

Those look great. I'd have to wear a hardhat to fish them, though!
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Posted 19 August 2010 - 03:56 PM

The weight is nothing that a 75' arc can't fix... wacko.gif The heads themselves aren't all that heavy and the weight is distributed so that in this configuration they should ride hook point up as shown. I am more worried about casting them after the rabbit hide has soaked up a bunch of water. If I find they are getting too heavy I will probably strip them down and put the rabbit in a dubbing loop and cut off the hide, aside from the tail.
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Posted 19 August 2010 - 10:31 PM

Wow, great looking flies. Looks a little like the Phantom of the Opera's mask (the wife loves the show, puts me to sleep and I dream about fishin')... I saw skulls like this at Feathercraft, I'd like to give them a try. Thanks for posting.

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Posted 23 August 2010 - 02:45 AM

QUOTE (Pelhament @ Aug 19 2010, 04:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The weight is nothing that a 75' arc can't fix... wacko.gif The heads themselves aren't all that heavy and the weight is distributed so that in this configuration they should ride hook point up as shown. I am more worried about casting them after the rabbit hide has soaked up a bunch of water. If I find they are getting too heavy I will probably strip them down and put the rabbit in a dubbing loop and cut off the hide, aside from the tail.



Strip them down????? What? Big FLish= Big Fish, Chris. I chuck bigger flies than that on an eight weight. Some of the patterns I fish for the largemouths I cast on an old 10 wt.....casting ain't gots to be pretty....just effective. Good buch of ties, man! PS...added your bluegill fly to my display case(invitation swap)...GREAT TIE!!!
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Posted 23 August 2010 - 12:47 PM

Thanks again Hubby! If I were to strip them down (which I am 90% certain won't happen) I would just retie them by doing a dubbing loop of bunny for the body instead of palerming the bunny strips. Getting rid of the hide can reduce a lot of weight since it so spongy and sucks up so much water. However, these flies are pretty tame compared to a lot of my bass flies. I am more worried about trout applications with my 6wt, but I don't want to talk about those fish much in this forum smile.gif
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Posted 23 August 2010 - 08:04 PM

Always love your work, my man! Looking forward to your "improvements" on this one! Personally, I like it the way it is....
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Posted 09 April 2011 - 11:06 AM

those look awesome. where did you find that crawfish colored fur? ive been looking around for that color with no luck.
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Posted 09 April 2011 - 07:03 PM

QUOTE (cragrat @ Apr 9 2011, 09:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
those look awesome. where did you find that crawfish colored fur? ive been looking around for that color with no luck.



I got it at my local shop here in Eugene. http://www.caddisflyshop.com/
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Posted 09 April 2011 - 07:19 PM

in a DAY 5 video they say to use a very heavy dubbing whirl and a magic tool clip to spin the rabbit hair in a loop around the body to eliminate the weight from the leather strip of the cross cut this also makes the fly sink better

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Posted 11 April 2011 - 10:07 AM

QUOTE (bad fish rising @ Apr 9 2011, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
in a DAY 5 video they say to use a very heavy dubbing whirl and a magic tool clip to spin the rabbit hair in a loop around the body to eliminate the weight from the leather strip of the cross cut this also makes the fly sink better


I do basically the same thing, only instead of an expensive Magic Tool, I use a cheap office supply binder clip. Works great! The other benefits of using a Magic Tool or binder clip method instead of just wrapping crosscut is that you can clamp flash in with the rabbit strip or mix more than one color of rabbit strip. I like to clamp the crosscut and the flash (I like holographic ice dub), trim the hide strip off, put it in a dubbing loop, spin and wrap. Killer pattern either way!
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