Show your stuff... I have a bad eye and have been home all day whiped up a few flys.
Try SF fibers . I was big fan of EP but the SF seems like a better fiber for everything I am trying to do.Going through all my ep colors now.
Purple anyone?? View attachment 110008
Shallow, Same pattern in lime green with orange butt can be extremely useful on the table top in Deep Creek, S AndrosFilling some bonefish boxes for the bahamas. #4 white special should help get the job done. View attachment 110390
Nice flies Birdy. I have started using some nice 3D tab eyes instead of gluing. Sometimes I don't want the eyes to compress the sides of the fly. And they stay on much better.Going through all my ep colors now.
Purple anyone?? View attachment 110008
Scott, I like that idea. Where did you pick those up from?Nice flies Birdy. I have started using some nice 3D tab eyes instead of gluing. Sometimes I don't want the eyes to compress the sides of the fly. And they stay on much better. View attachment 111342
The old ones were made out of cork for a reason. Some in Balsa, yes. Foam or styrofoam is really the way to go for flies these days. Wood is just too heavy, unless you are using them on bait casters. I've made wooden plugs for spinning outfits and they were fun to make and work well for that. But not for fly fishing.View attachment 111600
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Finally getting around to making some wood poppers/sliders
Have enough cork and foam in the box and a half dozen of these will fill it out.
These start out from a 3/4" round dowel.
Backwater, I get your point. I have a big plank of Balsa that I have been working with for a lifetime. With the availability of foam, I no longer use it for anything other then sliders because the heads are not as big and therefore weigh less than a full popper body. I will say that I love the Balsa for this purpose. My sliders hold up much better than foam and they seem to swim just right instead of wanting to skip on the surface like some foam heads do. I also like that they more slowly rise back up to the surface than foam. On the other hand, I still have to form the heads. That takes time when you can easily find preformed foam heads that work. So I admit that I use those too.The old ones were made out of cork for a reason. Foam or styrofoam is really the way to go for flies these days. Wood is just too heavy, unless you are using them on bait casters. I've made wooden plugs for spinning outfits and they were fun to make and work well for that. But not for fly fishing.
What's the reel Bob?Electric blue... is my purple - all day long....
Dave Nickles.... We won’t worry about any knothead comedians along the way
Styrofoam ball bugs
Here’s another one prolly good for a laugh.
http://forums.bullnettlenews.com/90-mississippi-fly-fishing/231577-click-poppers.html
I like the chaser rig concept. Have you fished it with any better success than a regular two streamer rig?
Chaser rigs
Ha! Nice one man double.Scott ain’t fished it yet. Did get few doubles on a fly behind a jig on specks. I had a red one time eat the shrimp fly and popper on same lunge one time
Got the idea from this bass site View attachment 112224 View attachment 112228 View attachment 112230
https://majorleaguefishing.com/angl...t-chaser-rig-will-put-more-fish-in-your-boat/
If it ain't chartreuse it ain't no use.
Sounds like a lota crab to me!If it ain't white it ain't right.