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Designing lures while I heal

 
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Prof. Salt
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:38 am    Post subject: Designing lures while I heal Reply with quote
I won't be released by the doc to fish for at least a month, so I'm putting that frustration into tying flies. My goal was to develop some patterns of my own that will actually catch fish, and looking good would be a bonus. After lots of tinkering I settled on a crab pattern, and this week I worked out a shrimp pattern that has me excited. When I started tying flies it felt like arts and crafts, but it has changed to a sort of art form that goes beyond arts and crafts. At any rate I'm nicely distracted from that itch to go fishing ...for now.



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Rich11111
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nicely done. Great talent. Fish won't have a chance resisting those!
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Prof. Salt
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks, and let's hope so! After some field testing I'll work on how-to videos for others wanting to make the same patterns, if they prove successful and durable enough.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I really like the roach-style fly

what I do on mine is add a full marabou feather wrapped as collar


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
don't know how but message duplicated so i removed.

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Prof. Salt
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
bulldog1935 wrote:
I really like the roach-style fly


Is that the Bluff way of saying the shrimp fly? Laughing

I love the maribou idea. I can see a serious little squid coming from the bench soon!
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Johninaustin
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Didn't realize you were laid up, I hope it's nothing serious. Looks like you are accomplished at something else I cannot do. Wink


I really like the second one. Thought about any of the bigger tarpon flies? Some of the ones I see guys using in the keys are a good 6' long.
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Prof. Salt
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Johninaustin wrote:
Didn't realize you were laid up, I hope it's nothing serious. Looks like you are accomplished at something else I cannot do. Wink


I really like the second one. Thought about any of the bigger offshore flies?


I had ACDF (neck fusion) and have to behave for a few more weeks while things heal. It's serious but going very well, so I should be out there harassing fish again soon.

I have made several kingfish flies and I know jus the place to get them surface feeding for a topwater show. Remind me to charge the batteries before that trip.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Prof. Salt wrote:
bulldog1935 wrote:
I really like the roach-style fly


Is that the Bluff way of saying the shrimp fly? Laughing

I love the maribou idea. I can see a serious little squid coming from the bench soon!

it's based on a FL tarpon fly called the c-o-c-k-roach, a word that won't post on this forum.
The weekend we invented that fly, 3 of us hooked up at the same time on reds beating mullet into our feet, so we named it Fence Lake Roach.
It's been a go-to fly any time I want that pulsing marabou, and casts like a thread.

Glenn, I like that instead of tediously copying patterns, you look at them for what you can use and then invent your own -
- that's the way to do it.
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