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Matty calls it a foam baitfish but I have heard the name crease fly before, maybe you are right, not sure. Will have to give it a shot myself. Thats what I know them as. Whatever the name I really like how they work in the water, I am going to make more of them when I get a chance.

You mean a crease fly? Yeh I have had one in my box for at least 2 years now and yesterday tried it out for the first time. I really liked how it worked, it got the attention of a bass on her bed but she would not bite.

Very nice

Good point about in vegitation. Now I guess someone is going to have to come up with a good subsurface frog pattern.

I don't know if anyone else has seen this but most of the frog patterns out there are topwater. I personally have never seen a frog swim across the surface. Whenever I see one jump in the water they imediatly head for the bottom and swim along the bottom. Maybe I just am not seeing many frogs but this was an observation I had.

Yep it should work

Wuss and proud of it To be honest only the flys I had with me today are barbless. Something tells me I won't get around to the 100 or so other flys and all of the flys I tie from now on. Once the finger heals I probably will curse myself for taking the barbs off.

Can I change my answer. went fishing today and now I am having a hard time typing because for the first time in many years I hooked myself. Put a Sz. 8 streamer hook with barb into my right index finger and I got to say if I had not had a barb I would not be missing most of the skin off the tip of the finger right now... ouch. Now all of my flys are barbless BTW

I hear ya. The weather is nice, maybe tomarrow I will be able to get out and do a little fishing... maybe

I guess tomarrow I will have to give Midlothian a try and see if they have started biting since last week. Otherwise I will call my buddy who lives out there and see about fishing this pond that is near his new place.

congrats I have not had any luck this season with crappie. all my normal lakes have not started producing yet.

Very nice. I need to get to making some poppers.

See this is why I don't like fish finders, you know the fish are there and then you can't use the excuse "I guess they are not here" I am guessing you are going to be trying for the big Browns soon though.

Dang school. I want to get down there and hit up some saltwater fishing.

I think I was about 10 when I first started. Dad and I tried out this new pond by our house and all we found were small bluegill. Dad goes home and gets this strange looking rod called a flyrod. I catch a bunch of small bluegill and some very strange to me looking fish that I now know are golden shiners. I still fish that pond as often as I can. Oh yeh I am almost 24 now, dang 14 years of this.

Looks killer

Crazy Charlies in brown, smallish. Do you have sandfleas/molecrabs? if so put a little orange in them and that will represent eggs in a female.

I have 3 lamps. Well they all come from the same area but I bounce most of the light off the white wall behind my tyeing area.

Thats good news.

Looks killer.

It is Jeffs killer crappie fly. I was supposed to enter it into the crappie swap but I ran out of time. I finally am getting around to tieing a bunch up for this season. Really I think it is a copy of another streamer. Basicly flashaboo tail gray body back bucktail wing with black thread, very simple yet extremly effective. I had a few crappie come from 6ft of water and jump out of the water because of the momentum they had trying to hit it last season.

All dries.

I have a streamer that I tie for various fish that uses rabbit dubbing for the body. Whats if any the best Chenille to replace it? I don't mind the dubbing but I would rather use chenille because it is more uniform for me and quicker to tie with. Or would some kind of floss work?

Looks like it will work.

I'd catch fish with it.