Squimps
Thanks.
Tide, does color matter for topwater smallmouth bugs? I'm making some sliders and Dogs for a guy going for smallmouth in Canada and not sure what color to paint them. I'm thinking of |
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RBF: indoor non-rodbuilding activity
I've been busy, waiting for the weather to warm up a bit, and bring the seabass with it.In the mean time, i've been making them some snacks to try later in the season The majority are made up of EP |
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Joes Long Island Baitfish
looking good. i now have about a month and a half to get some tied up for the lm that push the shad into the weeds . keep it up rich mc |
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Upside Down Frog Results and Refinements
Last June I posted a tutorial ([url="http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=60319&view=findpost&p=470555&hl=&fromsearch=1"]Upside Down Frog Tutorial Link[/url]) for |
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Prey Coloration Discussion
Interesting topic. I always feel like the Gills are always pushed for LMB, but then i feel like I always see a lo more shad and baitfish colorations than I ever do say bluegill. I especially see that |
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Few Poppers
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What did you use for the bodies of those?? They look fantastic!
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I shaped the bodies from tupelo |
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Candy Shop Flies
Great looking flies. Are you using the same process to make these as you did to make the glass shad? |
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April 2012 : Flies from the Vise
It was fun tying with the hair, I've got some light blue, and enough white to create some mackerel or shad patterns, it's really got me thinking And I think I have some old beaten up rubber g |
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Fully Flexible Glass Shad
Reviewed a pattern by Capt Chris Newsome - The Blasphemy.
Chris - Thanks for an awesome pattern idea!
Took this idea and devloped a fully flexible Threadfin Shad. This is my first try and I a |
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Shad bass poppers
Most of my recent bass poppers have been attempts at a more realistic paint scheme (baby bass, rainbow trout, bluegill, perch), and last night I finished up a pair of these. I was going for a shad co |
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WAPSI Perfect Popper bodies
Thanks everyone, gotta say painting bugs is my favorite thing in fly tying; maybe I'm a painter and not a fly tier?
Cream, I wonder why they call them saltwater poppers when the hook looks like t |
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Crappie jig colors
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Hi Margaretann, I caught these crappie on Friday on these jigs. I tend to stick with the natural colors of the indigenous forage for the wate |
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First run of the season
Fresh and saltwater striped bass are exactly the same genetic species. Structurally they tend to be slightly shorter and stockier than their saltwater siblings. Our stripers in Tennessee have reached |
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Inland Striped Bass
Just a shout out to inland striper anglers. It's on! My guide season started with a bang this week. Water temps hit 57 degrees and the fish went nuts on top all week long. Between Tuesday and |
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Swimming Baitfish
I had to do some more Dave Whitlock flies. I use to use these on Lake Erie for smallmouth and sometimes for pike. For some reason I have not used them in a long time. They worked great back then so |
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lm bass box so far
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anything im forgetting? (flies, colors, etc.)
subsurface side left to right, top to bottom:
flasha |
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LMB Fly suggestions
Thanks everybody for the ideas. I tried the idea that robert gave me and I think it will work.
Rich, I haven't found a picture of a fly like that yet but I'm going to look some more.
tidewa |
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Taneycomo
I fished it out of something very similar to a bass boat with a jet on the back. You will find plenty of fish within a mile or two from the dam. It's a deep river, easily navigated till you get re |
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Trout popper follow up: baby bass
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You sure can paint ummm!!! Would love to see a perch. Go on I dare you.
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I prepped two more bod |
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Speckled Trout Fly SWAP
I appreciate you trying to straighten me out on my "specks" but I was definitely referring to speckled sea trout. I fish for them in Florida often. They eat pilchards that look like freshwat |
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February 2012: Flies from the Vise
Thanks Lykos, I chase a lot of tail race trout in the winter when shad get spit out through the dam. Came up with this last night. Woke up at 2am with this in my head. Had to go tie it. I think it wil |
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American Shad
I do not know what the water is like up there, but here in Florida the water is very murky which might make the light less of a problem. On a sunny day with polarized glasses you might be able to see |
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J. Stockard Hooks
the flyshop also has good store name hooks for a good price.
ive used all the 2x strong hooks for steelhead & the bass,saltwater,jig,shad hooks with good success. |
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EP baitfish
I gave this a shot today Panfish/shad-esque shape (tall, skinny)
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I colored it using a black sharpie.
What kinds of markers do you |
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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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January 2012: Flies from the Vise
I downsized a muskie pattern called the Supercharger to a 1/0 size for plus-sized bass. Total fly length is about 5.5" long. It's all synthetics and bucktail, so it should shed water well a |
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Weekly Fly Tying Contest #4
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This is going to be a hard week to vote..
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that's always good. Hopefully we will still get a couple more be |
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Need some ideas for big bass flies
I have two trains of thought. I throw my pike flies for local largemouths and also take alot of big smallies on the rivers when piking. In the lakes I prefer a gizzard shad pattern (attahced) I tie, b |
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What Constitutes a Fly
Here is the real question and why I'm asking it. I am
an unconventional tyer. No materials are considered off limits if I can attach it to a hook and cast it on a fly rod. Right now I am tying thr |
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FTF Fly Challenge: Clouser Minnow
[quote name='Dragonslayer' timestamp='1324580818' post='486854']
Hi Everyone Merry Holidays. I am new to the fly tying side, have been tying only 1 1/2 months now but her are |
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Generic minnow/ baitfish swap
This is similar to what I tied to go after some white bass that were chasing shad a few weeks back. One down, 11 to go.
White River 3X Size 8
Bead Chain Eyes
Crystal Flash Tail
Orange Ice Dubbing
Str |
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Fish Pictures
Those are some nice reds iFly. Here are a few of my fish.
Redfish from last fall in the IRL (first red on fly)
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Couple more reds from last week in mosquito lagoon o |
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Tenkara Swap
Ok your in famil00. I was wondering what you use as a substitute for the old yarn? I got one from tenkara bum last week and it seems pretty good but haven't tried it yet.
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Woolly Buggers for Pike??
I've caught good numbers of pike in my time here on Earth. Most of my pike arsenal consists of pike bunnies and shad imitations. I've heard of it, but has anyone caught pike on woolly buggers |
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Can you ID the author?
Indeed- Shad did nail it. Both quotes are from [i]The Art of Tying The Wet Fly & Fishing the Flymph[/i] by James E Leisenring and Vernon S Hidy. Shad, please PM your address to receive your wax. |
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Learn A New Pattern Bluegill Swap
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DaddyO, you are in ... BARELY. You have taken the last spot! Welcome. Glad to have you join us. I'll put |
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spray on attractant
I buy plastic baits in bulk sometimes & add shad, crayfish or garlic oil to them. I also add "worm oil" which has no scent, and is used to keep the plastic from drying out, but really fe |
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Cumberland River
It's an amazing resource. It's predominately a shad forage base if you want to target the big trout. If it isn't articulated and four to seven inches long I'm not slinging it. It does |
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calcasiau pigboat variation swap
tom nixon's pigboat is an awesome fly. i am looking for at least 8 [or more] tyers to show their pigboat variations. by that i am looking for ones with rabbitstrip tails, rubber tails, multi co |
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What to do with pink saddle hackle?
I also like pink for saltwater flies. Crappie, & both White & Yellow Perch like pink too. I tie a simple pattern with a pink thread head, pink hackle collar & a white fox fur wing, which l |
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Auglaize River crappie
Thank guys! I was just wondering! Croakers have small bones too, but not like a Shad or a Pickerel. My father & mother were both fond of fish, so we ate a lot of fresh fish when I was grow |
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Lake Fishing
Kevin,
Sounds like the bait balls could be gizzard shad balling up from predator fish chasing them, (smallies). check out the data base for gizzard shad patterns. tie up some for the next time, alon |
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Buffalo?
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Most of the buff I have caught have some one small shad flies, something like a #10 or #12 1x heavy wet hook with a |
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need some bass flies
Tie deep running craw and shad patterns then tie some shad patterns in lightly weighted and unweighted in olive and also white colors!!
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Are you seasonal on species?
Panfish,white bass, and spoonbill in the spring, summer i chase bass, panfish, catfish, and carp. In the fall bass, panfish, catfish, and in the winter i chase trout. and the best time for catfish is |
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What are your summer bass flies?
I normally go to craw flies this time of year, or worms of some form. I too begin to use more weed guards and if it's sunny I go to a weedless frog when we have good weeds. Poppers in the morning |
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Hard Head Divers
Salty, you will be glad you did.
Bigfoot, below are some foam ones that I made out of cylinders. I taper one end of the cylinder like I'm making a popper head then slit and glue the cylinder on t |
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Looking for a swap to join
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[url="http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=60485"]http://www.flytyingf...showtopic=60485[/url]
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Ant swap
I'll tie a Black #18 parachute ant with orange post
shad
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I am in, as long as nobody from the original swap who wan |
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Fly Fishing for Shovelheads??
i have caught a few catfish on the fly myself (my first fish on the fly)I have caught them in my pond at the house and at the lake numerous times. I don't use any scent on my flies or cut bait alt |
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minimalistic swap
Flies are in the mail and I just found out that Canada's postal service are on strike and I have not idea when my flies will arrive. Sorry if they do not show up in time or at all.
shad
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new ideas please
[quote name='rstout' timestamp='1305834362' post='468179']
Blane, you could try a swap of the "simplest fly that works" or "least amount of material". I ha |
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Fishing Report 5-5-11
I'm a firm believer that the crappie is the most underrated fish to chase on the fly. Usually by this point I'd be in double digits for Fish Ohio crappies, but the weather in SE Ohio royally |
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Bait fish
Shad, crappie, sunfish, that's about the extent of the baitfish we have here.... some lakes have fatheads that have been dumped from minnow buckets.Steve |
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I'm told these types of flies can work da bass
You're darn tootin' they will, any shad imitation of nearly any color will work for bass as long as part of the forage base is shad, other than that they will still work just not as well. Look |
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Bass streamers question
OK, question time. I admit that for me, I tend to fish more towards quantity than quality, and the quality just sort of "happens" from time to time. I recently started fishing some popular |
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Foam Divers
I have a foam diver that is very easy to tie that you might like. Called the Cripples, you can imitate almost any crippled bait fish from shad to perch and minnows. It's just two layers of foam gl |
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Mustad hooks cheap
Dang, Kirk, you got to tell everything you know! That was my secret stash of hooks! Harlee Rod is actually one of the oldest tackle shops on the east coast. I've dealt with them for seve |
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