10-25-2010, 03:53 PM
there is no way a renegade looks like a snail... LOL... but I have caught fish on it near reed beds (where snails would be sliming up and down the reed).. so guess the fish see it a different way.. :-)..
as for the slapping noise on a bubble/fly rig compared to a popper or frog pattern.. even a mouse pattern.. on the bubble fly it is a loud plunk in the water.. which I would think scares more than anything else... plus most anglers will let it sit like the bobber it is and unless the fly itself is doing some moving thats about all you are gonna get.. a slow to dead drift...
a popper or mouse even though they make that splash.. the angler usually tries to imitate a frog or mouse in the water by light tugs on the line... or a slow intermittent retrieve... so the fish hears/sees the first splash and then also feels/sees the fly moving it what it considers it to be a more natural movement...
at least that has been my experience with the bubble/fly.. :-)
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as for the slapping noise on a bubble/fly rig compared to a popper or frog pattern.. even a mouse pattern.. on the bubble fly it is a loud plunk in the water.. which I would think scares more than anything else... plus most anglers will let it sit like the bobber it is and unless the fly itself is doing some moving thats about all you are gonna get.. a slow to dead drift...
a popper or mouse even though they make that splash.. the angler usually tries to imitate a frog or mouse in the water by light tugs on the line... or a slow intermittent retrieve... so the fish hears/sees the first splash and then also feels/sees the fly moving it what it considers it to be a more natural movement...
at least that has been my experience with the bubble/fly.. :-)
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