"Blob" fly, someone provide some intel?

[JSzymczyk 0]

Is there something I'm missing in my research on the "Blob" flies which seem so popular in UK? Looks like a short marabou tail and a fuzzy/sparkly roundish body and that's it. Allegedly so devastatingly effective on stocked trout they're likened to Power-Bait?

[fishingbobnelson 0]

See the Blob Fly Swap on the Contest and Swap Forum of this site: http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=71524

[Piker20 0]

Yep, nothing really amazing other than stocked rainbows murder each other to eat them. As you say, mobile tail and long 15mm typically fritz body. Often fished at the end of leader with more demure on droppers.

[cheech 0]

I had the opportunity to fish with a competition angler when he was fishing the blob. He had them in about every color combo you could imagine, and they worked really well. He was fishing them on an intermediate line with a leech on the end of his line and the blob hanging off of an in line dropper about 12 inches up from the leech. He used the "hang" technique by letting the flies suspend with his rod tip about 45 degrees in the air. He would watch the line as it went into the water to see movement. Any slight movement in the line and he would set the hook.

[shoebop 0]

Somebody post a picture of a blob.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

there you go

[Will K 0]

Seems some have tails, some dont. youtube "Davie McPhail and Starburst Blob" and you will see a great video on them.

[cheech 0]

The blobs I have seen have a very short sparse tail.

[mikechell 0]

Stocked trout are raised eating food pellets. With the tail on blob flies, they look like food pellet larvae. Without tails, they mimic adult food pellets.

[Piker20 0]

For a slow second there you had me Mike. Just about to google images for food pellet larvae!

[mikechell 0]

LOL

[Will K 0]

Stocked trout are raised eating food pellets. With the tail on blob flies, they look like food pellet larvae. Without tails, they mimic adult food pellets.

Best post ever !!!

[mikechell 0]

Will K ... thank you, LOL. But if this is the best post you've read ... you need to read some of the stuff Peterjay, Riffle or Piker put on here !!!

[dazzyd 0]

Stocked trout are raised eating food pellets. With the tail on blob flies, they look like food pellet larvae. Without tails, they mimic adult food pellets.

 

ROFL!!!!

[SSC 0]

Some of the Blob variants use small foam cylinders to help give action. The FAB (foam arsed blob) has the foam in the "tail" section, the Boobie Blob uses the foam as "eyes".