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Everything posted by BigDaddyHub
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Welcome!!!!
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I like the black thread...often tie baitfish imitations, especially chub imitations, with black thread. Most chubs and daces in my local streams are often not white, but bronze, silver, brown, and black....especially black nosed daces.....we all know that sometimes it's not the color of the fly, but the overall profile and action that entices a strike. Very nice tie!
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Would make a nice leech/hellgrammite pattern for smallies!
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I would love it if you northern guys would come to Kentucky and take your winter back...a balmy 13 degrees at my place right now...global warming my big butt!
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Love this time of year in Kentucky. Most of my natural bucktail cache comes from road kill deer with thick winter tails. With any road kill harvesting, use caution. Number one, make sure it's legal in your state, or watch for Johnny Po Po and his buddies. Number two, if the animal smells gamey or is becoming rancid, it's often not worth saving unless it's a very unusual find. Number Three, use a little personal safety and never try to remove an animal from the road or harvest an animal that is too close to the lane of traffic. Number four, WASH you hands and scrub your nails if you're not using gloves.
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A really cheap way to protect a phone is to place it into a good quality gripper seal sandwich bag, remove all the air from the bag, and then place the bag with the phone into another bag and seal it up....has saved several phones and I pads over the last several years....the trick is to use good quality bags...cheap ones will certainly leak. I never was a huge fan of cell phones on the water until I had two heart attacks and now have small children....good to have in an emergency...if you don't want the nuisance of incoming calls, turn it off until it's needed.
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Shoebop is dead on with the pic...great little pattern for smallies. Imitates craws, stoneflies, dragon fly nymphs,etc......match the color scheme to the color schemes of the bugs in your local waters.
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A great go to pattern for crappie in Kentucky is the good ole white bugger.......when the water warms I add a little chartreuse to the head with great results. Have fun experimenting with different patterns!
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Don't worry about your fly being too big
BigDaddyHub replied to Piker20's topic in The Fly Tying Bench
Lefty said it best..."Give them groceries." Bigger flies mean bigger fish....Even if you have to cast it with a telephone pole and aircraft cable, chances are something will eventually take it...fishing big flies may mean fewer fish, but the fish you take are always bigger....it's the patience of the angler that often determines the success of large patterns. Great fish, by the way! -
Reckon Steve will boot us to the Joke of the Day for this???? HAHHA!
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What's black and tan and looks good on an inmate?????? Wait for it.... a German Shepherd! I'll be here all night, tip your waitress!
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Love it when a big blue or channel busts a craw fly or shad pattern in my favorite smallie haunts....I ain't no purist....a fish is a fish!
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Tie a similiar, albiet not as elegant, pattern...swims fine...my flies are un weighted and I use a small split shot about 3 inches above the fly....gives it a depth and a great "slow sink" after the strip because sinker sinks faster than the fly....shoulod be a very productive pattern utyer! Thank you for sharing this one!
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Daddy likes!!!
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If you haven't already, add them to the database...loving the baby bass bug!!
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I'd fish those anyday....yep.
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Great tie! Realistics have been my krytonite for years...I just hope to get it "close" to looking real and hope somehting shreds the crap outta of it! Very nice tie!
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Congrats!!!! GOOD fish!
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Hey SmallieFanatic! GREAT fish! Beswt pic I've seen all spring, young man.
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I like it, but I'm easy to please...looks like another great tie, Fred!
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Have been busting them on size 6 and 4 white buggers with pink thread or chartruese thread heads....hope you fill the boat with this one!
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Was just browsing old threads tonight...came across this one...man that fly took alot of fish! Good pattern on the smaller smallie creeks...big browns on the Cumberland loved it too! Good times.....
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If you can keep it in the mud, the heads will certainly leave a mud trail very similiar to fleeing craws....carp do like those craws, especially the small ones! I like it! Would love to see pics when you bust a big one.
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Busting those thunder chickens myself...great thread, fellas. Here's to never running out of material!