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flyflingerandy1
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:47 pm • # 1 |
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I would have to choose a woolly worm. You can grease a smaller one and fish it dry (crackleback), or weight it and fish it deep for big gills and trout, or fish it unweighted in shallow water. Colors, black, brown, white and yellow with red tags.
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ohiotuber
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:25 pm • # 2 |
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This is a "no brainer" for me. It's a yellow woolly worm, grizzly hackle & red wool yarn tail. This is my most productive fly for big bluegill, & it has also taken redear, bass, crappie, rainbows, & browns. One of those browns came out of Mossy Creek in Virginia....a very tough spring creek. It is a very versatile pattern that fishes well for me early Spring until it's too cold to go out. Mikey
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:36 pm • # 3 |
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Briminator. Oh yeah-Why? Cause it catches fish and lots of them.
Last edited by keebranch on Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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flyflingerandy1
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:07 pm • # 4 |
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Mike, where do you get your hackles? I have to get started tying for the spring. I have DOZENS of flies to tie, and a short amount of time to tie them.
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lv2fish
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:30 pm • # 5 |
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Hands down the woolly worm is my go to fly weighted or not. I believe they will catch just about anything that swims.Thats why I have them in many colors from size 14 up .They just work Dennis
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:46 pm • # 6 |
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Hmmmm.... If I could only have one pattern to fish, I'd have go with the Picket Pin. It's a hair winged wet. Fish it like a wet, streamer, or nymph, it catches fish.
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flyflingerandy1
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:49 pm • # 7 |
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Do you have pictures of that fly? I don't think I have ever seen one.
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:21 pm • # 8 |
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flyflingerandy1
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:42 pm • # 9 |
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Thanks J, that helps me out a lot. I might want to tie some of them up and see how they work out!
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 6:28 pm • # 10 |
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I tie a version of the wooly worm without a tail. Yellow dubbed body, black hackle palmered over it....tungston bead for deep, no head for shallow fishing. I've caught gills.......bass.....even catfish on them. They are easy to tie and catch fish every time.
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flyflingerandy1
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:25 pm • # 11 |
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Very nice, would chenille substitute for the dubbing?
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:01 pm • # 12 |
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Andy.....
Probably....but I like the 'buggy" effect I get with dubbing....and I can control the shape of the body better with dubbing.
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:57 pm • # 13 |
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David, I sub dubbing for chenille these days. I just don't care for chenille as a tying material. Your right about the dubbing being more buggy, and you have way more control over body shape. I'll never buy chenille again.
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:24 am • # 14 |
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I just need to play with some dubbing to learn what the heck I am doing with it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:28 pm • # 15 |
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Andy, dubbing is actually very easy to tie with. especially with a dubbing loop. I feel I have more control over the way my bodys form than with spinning the dubbing onto the thread. Also, when I do a dubbing loop, having a dubbing spinner helps alot. I also learned to tie in dubbing with a loop from Kevin Compton, so that also has a hand in why I do it that way.
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ohiotuber
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:50 pm • # 16 |
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flyflingerandy1 wrote: Mike, where do you get your hackles? I have to get started tying for the spring. I have DOZENS of flies to tie, and a short amount of time to tie them. Andy, I have used Whiting in the past, but have some Conranch hackle that I will provide feedback on. The guys I know who have used it swear by it. Mikey
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:06 pm • # 17 |
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I've been thinking about this question today and my answer is going to be a black bugger with white rubber legs because it is a great pattern that can easily be converted to several other things as you fish it. The bugger works on trout, bass and pretty much all sunfish and when the tail gets worn down, you have a woolly worm. Trim the hackle and tail and you have a girdle bug. Its a very versatile pattern. One of my newer favorites that I started using a lot over the past couple of years is the Stealth Bomber. I tie them in several sizes for bass, panfish and trout. They are very easy to tie and can be fished as a topwater or stripped as a streamer pattern or even as a terrestrial beetle for summer. Here are a few ways I tie them.... #6 - #1/0 for bass using combinations of flash and feather or rabbit strips for the tail. #8 for bream or clip of the tail and use as a beetle pattern for trout with a #12 hook
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:34 pm • # 18 |
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I have to learn dubbing. Many patterns I want to tie require dubbing.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:19 am • # 19 |
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Those are some nice stealth bombers; for some unknown biological quirk in my genes, I cannot tie those; mine come out more like "kimokaze bombers" and act kinda like them on the water!!-p-
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