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Weeds aren’t as much of an issue as oysters are where I’m from!
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The grass is thicker in summer around my usual areas with the occasional shell pad. I like to fish the open holes.
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What hooks are you using for these sir? Great looking flies btw!
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Pretty stuff. LA has lots of stuff to snag on lol
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Those are SL12s’ #4 and SC15’s #2. Pretty much the same size hook.
Edit: I’ll tie them up to a #1 and 1/0 though.
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Yea those SC15s are small in a #2. I was tying on tiemcos and B10S both in a size 2 a lot, so I ordered the SC15s #2s and boy was I surprised haha.
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Absolutely, but they are sticky and find a way in between teeth.
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Agreed, starts getting real delicate with those fellas (I don’t wanna hear it trout guys lol)
Smack as an FYI montana fly company is now added this to their catalog they aren’t quite a badass as my originals but they seem to work the same from my tests with them. Let me know if you can’t find a dealer that has them and your want some.
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I like this guy
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We see you flashing that sweet ass ring chucky
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Different in that the fly has action from both strips of mink, and action of the fur attached to the strip. Marabou vanes are much longer than minks fur and have their places that mink won't do..
I added a note of how I ty them below. The strips also have a tiny bit of mass so at the pause in a strip reacts differently and the whole fly "flows" from the head to the tail.
It is also the easiest big fly I ty to cast.
Individual mink hairs are finer than a vane of marabou.
Mink in the picture is called micro mink strips( the width of the fir strip is narrower than the regular mink strips). I use both sizes for my mink streamers and I've never seen anyone else use mink in a fly like mine (could be that's just not a very impressive looking tie
)The tail is 4 strips, short one on the bottom, little longer for the sides and a little longer still for the top strip. Add a little flash, then wrap a strip around the hook shaft like wrapping a hackle to the hook eye. Attach the shank to the hook, then tie in just like the tail except the length of the bottom strip now being tied is long enough that the end that flows back to the hook is cut so that only the hairs touch, add the sides and top, then a little flash and wrap to about 1/2" to 3/8" inch from the eye, tie just like the tail but leave out the bottom strip or not. Most I tie with various sizes of lead eyes and I've a half dozen with out any lead. I usually add a single mink wrap behind the lead eyes or I build up some thread and glue some eye's on. Until this year I epoxied the heads on some, switched to LiguidFusion.
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I do need some more!
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Do the fish like “everything” you tie?😎
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Great stuff! I also like Finn Raccoon.Different in that the fly has action from both strips of mink, and action of the fur attached to the strip. Marabou vanes are much longer than minks fur and have their places that mink won't do..
I added a note of how I ty them below. The strips also have a tiny bit of mass so at the pause in a strip reacts differently and the whole fly "flows" from the head to the tail.
It is also the easiest big fly I ty to cast.
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Individual mink hairs are finer than a vane of marabou.
Mink in the picture is called micro mink strips( the width of the fir strip is narrower than the regular mink strips). I use both sizes for my mink streamers and I've never seen anyone else use mink in a fly like mine (could be that's just not a very impressive looking tie
The tail is 4 strips, short one on the bottom, little longer for the sides and a little longer still for the top strip. Add a little flash, then wrap a strip around the hook shaft like wrapping a hackle to the hook eye. Attach the shank to the hook, then tie in just like the tail except the length of the bottom strip now being tied is long enough that the end that flows back to the hook is cut so that only the hairs touch, add the sides and top, then a little flash and wrap to about 1/2" to 3/8" inch from the eye, tie just like the tail but leave out the bottom strip or not. Most I tie with various sizes of lead eyes and I've a half dozen with out any lead. I usually add a single mink wrap behind the lead eyes or I build up some thread and glue some eye's on. Until this year I epoxied the heads on some, switched to LiguidFusion.
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Moisten your knots before cinching!😁
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