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fatfly
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:51 pm • # 1 |
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if you had to choose only one fly for cold/warm water what size and pattern would it be?
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linecaster
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:59 pm • # 2 |
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Warmwater= Briminator #10
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gillchaser
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:10 pm • # 3 |
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For me at this time its this simple tie I developed to represent a drowned bug . Tied on a size 10 , Mustad 3366 , a little chennile , and mini centipede legs . I tie them in several colors . Just cast out , let sink a little , while watching the line , then slowly strip . The gills seem to love them . Has worked in lakes, ponds and streams so far . Gillchaser
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:00 pm • # 4 |
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gillchaser wrote: For me at this time its this simple tie I developed to represent a drowned bug . Tied on a size 10 , Mustad 3366 , a little chennile , and mini centipede legs . I tie them in several colors . Just cast out , let sink a little , while watching the line , then slowly strip . The gills seem to love them . Has worked in lakes, ponds and streams so far . Gillchaser Those look pretty nice, what colors are you using, and how many legs do you put on the fly?
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:31 pm • # 5 |
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Black is always a good color .the orange/yellow one worked pretty good today . I've tied up several colors , and if one color seems slow , I'll switch until I find one they like . It seems ( to me anyways) that the white/black centipede legs work the best around my area . I wrap the hook with chennile , leaving a small space for tying on the legs and making a small head . I tie in four strands of legs that makes eight legs total . No need for weight , unless you want to add a beadhead for streams . the weight of the 3366 sinks the fly at a slow rate that seems to draw strikes . Very simple tie that works . gillchaser Edit : forgot to add , they cast pretty good too. I roll cast them with the Lamiglas and with my Cabelas CGR 5'9" 3wt.
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:46 pm • # 6 |
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if you're asking the one fly we could only use in both warm and cold water, for me, it'd have to be a #10 olive woolly bugger.
Last edited by dpenrod on Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:18 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:47 pm • # 7 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:17 am • # 8 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:21 am • # 9 |
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ditto with DCG.... gillchasers fly is one for the box, variation of the cap spider?
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Unsociable
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:12 am • # 10 |
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Gillchaser, have you caught any other species with those flies? They look nice and easy enough to tie. I love generic patterns which can be fished anywhere, though I still have to tie and fish some that Deer's Hair Emerger from Bob Wyatt is bloody nice. I would most probably go for a Wooly Bugger or Bloodworm if I had to pick one... at gunpoint I'd be shot!
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:18 am • # 11 |
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Muddler. But I feel some ambivalence about this answer. It is one of the flies that I've caught the most warm and cold species with most of the time, but its also one of the flies I enjoy tying the least.
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:06 am • # 12 |
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Just one? Well I'll break the trend #8 Accardo Round Dinny yellow body black hackle and tail and of course those enticing white rubber legs.
The visual aspect of a surface strike is just to much for me to give up!
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:43 am • # 13 |
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It would be a Wooly Cary. In all colors.
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gillchaser
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:48 pm • # 14 |
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Unsociable wrote: Gillchaser, have you caught any other species with those flies? I've caught several of the sunfishes , bluegills, shellcrackers, warmouth , and even small largemouth bass . gillchaser
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:07 pm • # 15 |
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JOHN WALLACE wrote: It would be a Wooly Cary. In all colors. What dat?
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:08 pm • # 16 |
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Warmwater .....Briminator
Cold water ...... Griffiths Gnat ( used as both dry and wet )
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 1:14 pm • # 17 |
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Gillshaser, I really like those! I tie something similar but use senyo's rubber dubbing for legs. I like the variegated legs though so I'll try that next. That's typically my go-to fly. Caught anything from bass to trout on them. I tie mine on a 14 hook most of the time.
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 2:40 pm • # 18 |
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CBarclay wrote: Gillshaser, I really like those! I tie something similar but use senyo's rubber dubbing for legs. I like the variegated legs though so I'll try that next. That's typically my go-to fly. Caught anything from bass to trout on them. I tie mine on a 14 hook most of the time. I started tying them last year when I discovered Centepede legs were available in the mini size . I tied up some this morning using peacock herl for the body and olive/Black legs . Looks real buggy . If I ever get after the trout in N. Ga. I'll be trying them out first. I've used a couple of turns of a leggy looking hen feather before , but nothing has worked like the Centepede legs . By raising and lowering you rod tip, the bug swims . I tie down to size 12 in the 3366 hooks , hadn't seen any smaller . 3366 hooks are good ,cheap , thick wire hooks. gillchaser
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 3:26 pm • # 19 |
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This
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 3:58 pm • # 20 |
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Woolly bugger in black or olive
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