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vcsu22

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About vcsu22

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    Bait Fisherman
  • Birthday 05/24/1983

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  1. The only mouse pattern I've ever tied or fished is Dave Whitlock's mouserat. I posted a picture in the May flies from the vise thread. It's pretty much all spun deer hair with some foam/leather ears and tail black bead eyes and maybe some moose hair whiskers. My cats think it's pretty realistic. I've also heard big browns like to slup up a mouse, that'd be a blast, big flies for big fish.
  2. I love the 3366, size 6 & 4 are great "fence rider" sizes for topwater bugs, they will get you either panfish or bass. I use them for a lot of the flies I tie, clousers, deer hair poppers, big nymphs. For the price I don't think there's a better warmwater fly hook
  3. You are correct sir, a couple years ago I experimented with making eyes, mostly due to the lack of available tying material in my area, and after a few different attempts this is what I came up with. They are super simple to make, I have a 6 mm paper hole puncher, the single pliers type, and a sharpie, the sharpie will smear so I glue them on first, then draw pupils. Sometimes I coat them with Hard as Nails, but that can run the ink of the pupil's too. I've also dabbled with coating them in epoxy, but the advantage to these is simplicity and one less step is okay with me. I'm guessing there's a marker out there that works better with foam that I'm not aware of. Like living things the eyes are the window to the soul, and I'm not 100% sold that on all patterns they improve it's fishing ability, but they give your fly character. The foam also gives a little more float which never hurts on a soggy deer hair fly.
  4. Hello, this is my first post on this forum, and here's some of what I've been working on the last few weeks, mostly deer hair warm water stuff, there's a mouserat with foam tail and ears, diving frog, gerbuggle bug, foam VIP poppers, deer hair poppers, Gorilla Dragonflies, a couple patterns I haven't named, first one's a dry with mallard flank tail, dubbed hairtron body, rubber legs, foam wing, and badger saddle, seconds a wet, dumbell eyes, dubbed hairline body, rubber hackle tail and legs and palmered grizzly hackle. Last one is a Skipper Frog. Sorry if the pictures aren't great. Let me know what you think
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