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Does anyone have a good Crayfish pattern?

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I have visited innumerable fly tying sites and searched through many books and have not once found a good crayfish pattern. Does anyone

have a good, easy, crayfish pattern? :wallbash:

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I have visited innumerable fly tying sites and searched through many books and have not once found a good crayfish pattern. Does anyone

have a good, easy, crayfish pattern? :wallbash:

Look in the step by step colomn on this site for Hannie's ABC.

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Go to the fly Db and do a word search for Crayfish, Crawdad, and mudbug. If that does not satisfy, PM Day5 and tell him his flies are mediocre.

 

Cheers Futzer.

 

 

 

OK, sorry you're a new poster don't do #2. That would just be too ugly. sorry search his new crawfish pattern.

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Geeze futzer you make me out to be some sort of crazy loon! hmmmm now that I think about it that might be a easy thing to do. Smalliefan we share a common interest. Smallies! Did you know the diet of smallmouth over 15 inches in environments with crayfish consist of 74% crayfish? I sell 2 different patterns on my site the kzoocraw and the spidercraw I also have a instructional DVD that covers both.

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Plus, all of day5's flies and dvd's are on special. B)

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Easy and suggestive, I like the Barr Meatwhistle. The only thing i do diferantly is to replace the marabou collar with a crosscut rabbit strip. I like the way it opens up underwater. It looks like a pissed off crawfish. I tie them in olive, brown and tan.

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I tie up a lot of these, and catch a lot of fish on them... you can find the material list and instructions in the database. It's called the Full Motion Crayfish

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I tie a crossbred version of Kelly Galloup's and Bob Clouser's crayfish.

 

i use the underbody and claws from Galloup's and the shellback from Clouser's.

 

In the end it is a pretty easy fly to tie as crayfish go.

 

 

here is a link with a photo of the final version.

 

 

http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=crayfish

 

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This is one that I created and tied. It was featured in the Summer 2006 issue of Eastern Fly Fishing magazine. It's in the database. It's called Rob's Crayfish. The smaller sizes are absolute killers for trout. Just toss 'em into the riffles and hang on ! I had these in my box for quite a while until I actually tried them. I was fishing for trout in the spring and we had an unusually high amount of rainfall. I was looking for something in my box that was heavily weighted to get down deep because water was extremely high and conventional patterns weren't working. I ended up fishing a tandem of 2 flies. A weighted Crayfish and a weighted rubber legs Perla stonefly on the dropper. I discovered a killer combination. Both flies were very effective. The Crayfish draws viscious strikes from trout. Believe it or not, I've never tried it for Smallies. It should be good though. I usually tie them in #6, 8 and 10 on #9672 Mustads.

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Guest rich mc

a friendof mine has had his craw accepted by rainy's flies called the hairy fodder. instructions can be seen on georgia riverfishing.com. it should be up on rainys web soon. rich

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