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 Post subject: Weedless?
PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:55 pm • # 1 
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With milfoil and other weeds already beginning to clog some of my favorite fishing holes, I'm looking for suggestions for weedless flies suitable for 3 wt fishing?


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2016 12:13 pm • # 2 
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I tie with wire weedguards or light weight nylom weedguards. The weedguard should be smaller in diameter than the hook, in my opinion. You can use a loop or just one strand hanging down from the eye. I seldom use wg for flies smaller than size 8.


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2016 11:49 pm • # 3 
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Knotty, I don't use weed-less flies but I do use different flies when the weeds begin to grow. For example, we couldn't fish a woolly bugger now without getting tangled, but a slow sinking yuk bug stays above the weeds long enough to attract strikes. Latter as the weeds grow thicker I'll use a stimulator and cast into pockets of water in the weeds; it's essentially a dry fly that sinks very slowly unless dressed with a flotant. Sometimes I'll use flotant (I use chaptick) and fish the stimulator dry.

North Texas has received rain this last two weeks which has washed many of weeds down stream; we have been blessed.


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2016 10:22 pm • # 4 
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Thanks guys. The weeds are definitely a problem but even worse is the green, slimey, filamentous algae. Its the bane of my fly fishing life.


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Sun May 29, 2016 11:01 pm • # 5 
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try some bent backs; they go thru the weeds pretty good; better after you learn to use them-p-


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 2:28 pm • # 6 
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i use a tung bead wooly worm type fly.i over size the hackle i bit and tie it thick.acts like a weed guard and gives it a crunch factor so they seem to hold on to it.i tie them on sz 12 sproats either blk or brn with a tag/tail of bright rabbit or egg yarn.my best producing wet for panfish


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 8:26 am • # 7 
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pearow, what's a bent back?

the hersh, over-sized hackle is a good idea. Thanks.


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:40 pm • # 8 
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Knotty, look at my post "Gills and weed beds". It didn't bubble to the top for some reason. Had this post in mind...


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:27 pm • # 9 
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Image this has been a good fly for along the weed lines.kind of a tung bead wooly bugger.my favorite way to beat the weeds is to fish above them.when they are holding in the weeds i throw something like this,have been tying them on 60 degree barbless jig hooks lately.my best bluegill fishing is in deeper clear water on the edges of the weed beds


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 11:18 am • # 10 
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fishing one of those in the lilies or in holes in the moss with a strike indicator to hold it vertical will kill them-p-


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 Post subject: Re: Weedless?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 11:35 am • # 11 
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Example of a bent bask; how hook is bent:
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sinking spider on a bentback hook:
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here's a bentback streamer with prop in front:
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here's a hump shanked popper hook bent to build a weedless deer hair diver:
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Deerhair diver:
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bentback streamer:
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