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Some more Congo Hair Stuff!
Did some more experimenting with Congo Hair! Already have another order in. Looking forward to some more colors.
Finger Mullet
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Flies
Red body with yellow hair - Nightime crease fly
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Bass Drugs
Thank you! I def agree, it should be a staple when fish are feeding on medium to big baitfish - great action in the water and you can use permanent markers to imitate any baitfish in your area |
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Passing the torch
Two things, first is to connect with why you are fishing. For you is it a cathartic release, a way to connect with nature, a desire to outsmart a wily creature or any of the millions of reasons people |
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Benched
Nice flies....like usual. How do you get the maribou on the urnje baitfish like that? Is it palmered? |
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FTF Fly Pattern - nyFLYguy05 - Congo Hair Baitfish
love congo hair as well - just got my order of water silk hair and the mixed color congo hair, both great stuff, the water silk is a tiny bit less so called dense than the congo hair, but for baitfish |
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EP baitfish
Some EP baitfish for some summer bass fishing.
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NEER Hair flies
I bought some several years ago to use on saltwater baitfish patterns, and was not particularly fond of it. It matted & kinked too easily IMO, and really didn't have an action in the water tha |
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Broke in new fly rod
The ole Tarpon toad ehh. Awesome stuff. What color pattern was that toad? And is that Cedar key area? My friend from a fly shop went out there the other day. I wonder if the world is small enough for |
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Need Some Advice on a Fly
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Hoping to get some advice. I love tying with puglesi fibers for the bulk and the ease of shaping but I find it to be so lifeless in the water. I have gone to the extent o |
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Some more congo hair stuff and other randoms!
Spending lots of time at the vise lately practicing a whole bunch of different techniques and patterns. Its also a great way to occupy my time during winter up here in Michigan (although our Winter ha |
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New Flies
Picture quality is MUCH better. I like those baitfish patterns (surf candys?) Do you 5 min epoxy or are you using a UV type cure? |
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January 2012: Flies from the Vise
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I'm with Kevin, I needed a break away from baitfish patterns. This is so far out of my comfort zone and a first attempt at something that |
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Favorite Fly
That is a toughie. I'm going to interpret the question in two ways. First, if I could only have one fly it would be a basic 2 1/2 inch silvery white baitfish pattern. I can catch most predatory sp |
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bucktails
bucktails are real simple to me. you start a good length from the eye of the hook, and youll become used to where you want to start tying in your bucktail.
heres some tips i would have liked to had wh |
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Creek, Back bay go to fly
The flies below are all small baitfish patterns for April into May and June. All the fish moving in our on small bait. These flies work great for me and are simple to tie. I like fishing them on an in |
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Crease Flys
chefben4, I'm primarily a bass & tidalwater angler, so most of mine are rather large, usually at least a size 2 hook, and more so 1/0's & 2/0's. I prefer a long shank hook, such as |
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Flies 12.26.11
Large silicone baitfish with 5/0 gamo hook and olive SF flash blend & 4 inch crease fly with 4/0 gamo hook with silver body and green vertical back |
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12/21/11flies
Baby Weakfish (two pics)
Baby Mohawk
Rattle fly - I know it dosent look great but with the rattle inside you need a lot of epoxy, i will tell you one thing tho, that baitfish pattern with a rattle = |
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Congo Hair Baitfish
Congo Hair Baitfish
If anyone can help me with this question>? I use very good named brand hooks for my flies, Gamogatsu, diachi, timeco, and all the top brands. What website/company do people us |
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Flies!!!
Bunch of flies for the spring and summer bass, blues , fluke and weakfish run!
Flies Names
- Baby Wiggler
- Grass Shrimp
- Greenback Crease Fly, Clouser Minnows and epoxy baitfish
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Big pike flies
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v5Xr0tOPtPI#!"]MEGA BAITFISH EMULATOR FLASH PEARL[/url]
What do you think about?
I think that's simple, fast and ve |
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Back bay / creek flies
I know I post flies alot and I apologize if this bothers anyone. I love fishing and make time after work to tie every night at my bench. Let me know what you guys think and if anyone would like recipe |
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What Constitutes a Fly
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I was wondering if you had a problem with short strikes, it looks like the body extends past the hook quite a dis |
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Trip to the Keys
Check out Paul Fisicaro's website, he's a guide out of Marathon. He's pretty much a fly fishing guide, he would be my suggestion. His business is called Strip Strike Charters.
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Recent ties
Very nice patterns! Have you tried congo hair for the baitfish patterns? Same material but 10x less in price - great colors, flytyersdungeon.com |
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Redfishing 12-9
Perry, in my area of North Florida I like dark baitfish patterns as we have dark mud bottom. When the water is dirty in the summer and on big tides the dark (black) works better than anything because |
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Peanut to large bunker flies
Thank you for the great comment sir, that was my goal here, to imitate a flkoating head or half a baitfish (aka bunker), you can only find out if it works by trying! thanks guys |
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Squirrel tail patterns
I have used the squirrel tail for tails on my poppers. You could also use it for patterns such as the Megan's Minnow. It would probably work for some type of baitfish pattern as long as you were |
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FTF Fly Challenge: Clouser Minnow
hi all heres a simple clouser that i use for pike in the uk the hook is a 6/0 longshank worm hook , the fly itself dosnt resemble any specific baitfish, but could be mistaken for many i have caught la |
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Fly Tyers Dungeon as of 12/4/11
I have seen many posts with orders and contact info regarding FTD (Fly Tyers Dungeon) I placed my order this past Thursday and sent the mad scientist an email. Literally 3 hours later I got an email t |
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hooks
I tie mine on size 4, 6, and 8 Daiichi 2220, with large, medium and small silver beadchain eyes(respectively). I also do some with medium, small and x-small sunken barbell eyes to go deeper when the |
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Generic minnow/ baitfish swap
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Well, after taking a poll for some ideas I have decided to host a generic minnow/ baitfish swap for fresh water |
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flies and tips for cape coral canal fishing
I agree with Kirk that those fish are pretty much bait eaters. Pinfish on clear water grass flats will hit pretty much anything with flash but in murky canals you may need something a bit stinky. In |
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Low cost Vise?
I just started tying myself. My first vise was a Griffin Superior 2A (very similar to the web offer w/o the cam). It lasted about 2 months before I had to upgrade. For bass flies it might work fine fo |
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November 2011: Flies from the Vise
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Love those flies, what are you using for dubbing here?
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Hi Agn54! The dubbing used on the black ones are |
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River smallie quesion
since your fishing for smallies as I see in your title I would say a heavy craw pattern like a clouser craw intermediate I would suggest a baitfish pattern not knowing where your from I don't know |
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Tippett spooking fish?
You have made three assumptions.
The first is that there is always moving water enough to cause drag. The fly fishers in Great Britain fish mainly still waters. So there is no drag. The fish also hav |
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more minnows
[quote] I used colors like that on bass before and they love them! It looks like a baby bass and big bass go nuts over them. [/quote]
Same here! I like that olive/white combination, its a fav |
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beads
Even with a barbless hook, it is sometimes impossible to get a non-countersunk bead around the hookbend especially the Limerick and other specialty bend hooks in smaller sizes.
I have been using the p |
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My overwhelming flop of a trip
It was a perfect storm (literally and figuratively) that pretty much killed my saltwater week last week in SC. I felt like I was well-prepared, I tied 5 boxes worth of saltwater patterns and got some |
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Ice Fly Help
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Some of these midges will work for you if fishing for gills. Knowing what you are fishing for will also help. If after panf |
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CCGoo Minnows
I saw some of these flies on the CCG facebook page and thought i would give it a shot, it's about as easy as threading a worm onto a hook...I look forward to using them in the southern hemisphere |
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steelhead flies
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FFJ,
Remember that a fly that is wet out of water is not the same as a fly that is actually in the wate |
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Streamer fishing question
woolly buggers are a great fly either swung or dead drifted.
you should add a marabou muddler or zoo cougar to your streamer flies.
these are good baitfish streamers with lots of action that strip we |
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Lake Erie Steelhead
I live in Erie pa and have been fly fishing for the chromers for many years. You will want all and any egg patterns you can find. Glo bugs, blood dots, sucker spawn, crystal meth, milking eggs, otter |
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A Must for Fly tyers
Google Image search redfish flies, snook flies, saltwaterflies , saltwater baitfish flies...you get the idea. Click on the picture and collect the info.
Look in the saltwater section of this forum, |
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9-13-11 - Auglaize River report
I spent some time at the vise a couple of nights ago whipping up some mini-clouser flies that resemble emerald shiners. I wanted to test them out, so I headed out to the Auglaize River. I learned my l |
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Fly Tying Material
In nw Florida , you'll not come across a lot of useful materials from roadkills, and the little that you do find can be problematic... i.e. raccoons can carry rabies... Besides, you won't tie |
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I got one!
Nice Work! Nice fish! Ahh the dubbing brushes are awesome and open up a whole new dimension to fly tying, crabs, shrimps, baitfish etc. |
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Hello from brevard county forum
Welcome to the forum largemouthTLOCD. I fish the IRL fairly often but a little south of you near Sebastian. I agree about the clouser, especially in chartruese over white. I use more baitfish patt |
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Brushed Llama Minnow
Man, you tie some great looking baitfish flies That slime profile would work great around pods of glass minnows. Never tied with llama hair, may have to give it a shot |
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Sculpins
Good question. I think it makes a difference on patterns that represent forage fish and baitfish but have caught fish on streamers that dont have eyes. Probably depends on a lot of factors, like water |
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What was working for me, early salmon west coast
Mike, interesting fly for sockeye. purple is not something I have seen for sox. usually green wool. being they are not baitfish eaters, it makes it an even more interesting fly. I could see chinook or |
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Trip to Clearwater/St. Pete, FL
Well, I'm in Sarasota not Clearwater, but any gulf side beach should do. Go at first light, sun at your back, stay back from the surf line so as not to spook them, look in the first 10 feet of wat |
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good streamer for drifting
The river I fish is at its lowest point of the year and I and a friend have located a nice section of water with good size walleye , they seem to hug the rocks at the bottom very tight and will not mo |
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