04-02-2015, 02:49 PM
[#0000FF]Yeah...heh, heh. TubeDude using an actual flyrod? Deerickulous.
I grew up in Idaho in a family of flyrodders. Although some were known to fish spinner and worms with their bamboo wands. Every family gots some of those.
I have been fly fishing and tying flies for many decades. Hate to admit how many. In recent years I have not carried any of my feather-flinging rods on my tube but I have still fished a lot of flies. I use them with bubbles, with jig and spin combos, dropshot style and even long-lined trailing behind my tube on spinning line.
I also tie and sell a whole bunch flies and marabou jigs to some other feather fanciers. So I do keep in tune with what works and what don't.
I just finished making myself a new 7 weight to allow me to throw some larger stuff for assorted warm water species. Of course, I ain't too proud to reel in something with spots once in a while. And I am modifying my tube setup with a new rigid apron (sushi board) and rod tubes to accommodate taking out one or two flyrods on tubing trips.
So, it won't be long before you start seeing some posts of fishies with feathers in their mouths instead of plastic or minnows.
With that as a goal, I have been whuppin' up some larger versions of my "hot head" flies...the ones I make with a bead of hot melt glue for the head. I paint and glitter those and add eyes. The smaller versions have produced well over the last year and a half for lotsa troutskis as well as a grundle of "lesser" species. As you can see in the attached pics, I made some with a piece of wire coming out the front...to which I added a couple of small beads and a propeller spinner. Voila! "Pistol Pats".
Finally recovering from a sore knee on one side and a sprained ankle on the other. Look out fishies. Here I come...as soon as Mama Nature gets back on her meds.
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I grew up in Idaho in a family of flyrodders. Although some were known to fish spinner and worms with their bamboo wands. Every family gots some of those.
I have been fly fishing and tying flies for many decades. Hate to admit how many. In recent years I have not carried any of my feather-flinging rods on my tube but I have still fished a lot of flies. I use them with bubbles, with jig and spin combos, dropshot style and even long-lined trailing behind my tube on spinning line.
I also tie and sell a whole bunch flies and marabou jigs to some other feather fanciers. So I do keep in tune with what works and what don't.
I just finished making myself a new 7 weight to allow me to throw some larger stuff for assorted warm water species. Of course, I ain't too proud to reel in something with spots once in a while. And I am modifying my tube setup with a new rigid apron (sushi board) and rod tubes to accommodate taking out one or two flyrods on tubing trips.
So, it won't be long before you start seeing some posts of fishies with feathers in their mouths instead of plastic or minnows.
With that as a goal, I have been whuppin' up some larger versions of my "hot head" flies...the ones I make with a bead of hot melt glue for the head. I paint and glitter those and add eyes. The smaller versions have produced well over the last year and a half for lotsa troutskis as well as a grundle of "lesser" species. As you can see in the attached pics, I made some with a piece of wire coming out the front...to which I added a couple of small beads and a propeller spinner. Voila! "Pistol Pats".
Finally recovering from a sore knee on one side and a sprained ankle on the other. Look out fishies. Here I come...as soon as Mama Nature gets back on her meds.
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