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Thanks guys! I like the foam, but I also like that Krystal Flash chenille like under the beatle body. Skip

I am sure the fish here will love them. What do you think? Skip And last but not least my little green beatle...

The bream here like it a lot. I have not had the chance to use it more than a couple of time though. Skip

Very good quality at a reasonable price can be found at Conranch and Denny is very knowledgeable and friendly. Will help you out to learn what you need. Good info on the site. Here is a link.... http://www.conranch.com/ Skip

I think your fly look very good especially for a beginner. I am pretty sure it will catch fish. Skip

Thank You for your service! Skip

For retying and such I use a head light now days with crappie fishing at night. Then just push the button to see and cut it off when fishing. As far as what to use, I have never tried anything as small as nymph, but I wouldn't count anything out. I would probably try woolly buggers and Zonkers or maybe a dark color Dahlberg Divers. If after bass I don't think you are going to find a fly so big that they wouldn't take it. I don't have a clue as to what kind of water you fish, but I live on a huge lake with many boat docks and they are good to fish around for bass and crappie a good part of the year. At night in the spring the bass get right up against the bank at night a lot. I would just experiment a lot and see what you can find that they will hit. On a really bright full moon night you may also try other colors than black. We use to use dark purple soft plastics a good deal too, or grape color. We never got to the lighter colors like pumpkin, chartreuse, etc. other than day time, but I think that some years back I seem to think of hearing of using that type colors at night with success. Lots of time there is a lull right after dark for an hour or so and I can't tell you how many nights they really turned on just before day light. Like if bread of day was 6:30 then many times at 5:00AM they would really get after it. On a full moon though the main time to expect bass to feed would be when looking up at the moon and if straight over head in 12:00 on a clock then from about 10:00PM to 2:00PM is the key hours. Also just before and just after a full moon is great fishing usually and always expect some activity when the moon is straight up and at 10 & 2 in the sky. Not talking about time on a clock here just position in the sky. Good Luck, Skip

First I think your flies will work! Next resize you pics to something like 640X440 or what ever that comes out to after changing the large one to 640 pixels. Do a search on this site fly pattern data base for other shrimp patterns or redfish & speckles trout patterns. I am not a old hand at tying either, but have been commercially tying crappie jigs for almost 2 years and flies a few months. Here is a shrimp I tied... Skip

Just thought it was time since I had them epoxied for a month or more, LOL! I am thinking the bass will like this one! Skip

OK let me give you want my experience is about night fishing. I started night fishing in the late W's and I was primarily a bass fisherman. Me and my buddies fished almost every weekend for one night and most of a day with out stopping for about 10 years. Only winter we didn't fish, like from Nov-Jan. Fish can see at night and with bass no lights at all. A black or dark bait was best as they can see the profile better using a dark color. Crappie fishermen use a light and have been fishing at night for many years. The full moon was easier, but that was easier just for the fishermen to see better, the fish didn't need it. I have actually had more luck fishing during the day with glow jigs and once you get them down 10' or more there is not much light anyway. Also murky water will be good for glow baits. The fish in under the bait and especially on a full moon can see your bait pass over head, but they can also see with no moon, but I found vibrating baits like a spinner bait or a lunker lure better in the dark moon. We did use black soft plastic worms and lizards at night a lot and they were fished on the bottom so they can see well. In the spring there is not much better bait for bass that a black spinner bait fished slow. Hope this helps, Skip

Thanks and I think there is a lot of ways to do this. Also I believe from my experience of fishing with my glow jigs they work as well if not better during the day. Murky water or just deeper like fishing a brush pile for crappie down 10'-20' there is not enough light to hold it back and the sun will charge them each time they are reeled in. Steve P we fish at night as well for crappie using several green lights (some use white lights too). I have night fished for bass since about 1970 or maybe a year or so earlier using no light and fishing with black soft plastic worms and black spinner baits. Other baits as well, but they are the 2 main things we use to use when I did that. I fish much more for crappie now that bass mostly because of my physical troubles. I do plan on learning to fly fish better and catch crappie shallow this spring when the get in that 2' of water. Love it when the Black crappie come in. Skip

Just started to work on a Glow Fly again and this is my first new shot. I don't think it will end here at all so wanted to ask you guys if maybe I should make the glowing part shorter and expose the Krystal flash chenille more that is under the hackle. I also just threw the tail on and have not decided what to use, but probably will not be this. Any comments? Skip Pic in light... Pic when under my table glowing...

I just buy the tail clumps and have plenty of different length fibers. Skip

What are you using to paint the eyes? I use drill bits that have a flat end and use one about half the size of the first to paint the pupil. Mine are not always perfect, but I think they usually look pretty good. You can check out my web site a see the eyes I paint on my jigs. I always put a coat of Sally Henson's after the paint dries. Skip

Thanks and I don't even think it's much of a caddis imitation and I plan on using it for gills anyway. Skip

Great looking fly! You do good work for sure. Skip

I didn't exactly follow the hackle colors I guess mostly I wanted to use this Golden Badger hackle to see how it looks. I think this is either my first dry fly or at most one of my first that was intended to be a dry fly. Anyway any constructive comments? Thanks, Skip

I use Acrylic and clear over. Some Acrylic is shiny and some are not, but the clear will put a shine on it. Skip

I used the bodkin to make the hole and then I use one of the tooth floss threaders to pull it through and I pulled both through at the same time. Good Luck, Skip

Keeping in mind I am not an experienced fly fisherman, but know enough to say it will depend on how deep I am trying to fish. If I want to target some bass or crappie in 6'-10' of water I will probably use some weight on my flies to get down to them a little faster. I do know some guys that fish weighted woolly buggers with wire for weight to get deeper faster. Skip

More and more I have been thinking it may be silver fox too. Skip

Isn't that a still from one of those hair restoration commercials ? LOL, I thought It might be a Tina Turner Wig? Skip

I do understand wanting to make your own, but I see them for not so much cost reinforced with wire. Skip

Here is a better pic of the top left one. Skip

As I understand it all these hats are pretty old, like at least 40 years old? The hat bottom pic right is very thick fur and not as long as the others. I don't think it's opossum and you may be right about it being chinchilla. It is soft and not shiny, but very dense. Thanks everyone for the input and maybe I just need to ask around for someone in these woods that knows more than I do. Skip