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DawnPatrolVeteran · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:34 am Post subject: The Molting Chicken Fly

My continued plunge into fly tying has been rewarding.
I decided to go off the beaten path and not follow directions in any book or steps. I went off my novice memory and imagination.

I used red thread, gold bead for the eyes and olive drab pheasant neck feathers and peacock feather strips for legs, antennae ?

I call it the Molting Chicken, I think I may use it as a benchmark for a more refined fly in the future but for now it is just as ugly as its namesake but maybe its a fish killer.

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ratherbefishing · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 1:14 pm Post subject:

That fly is uglier than a naked neck (turken) chicken. Smile

Hope you catch some fish with it.....
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sophiagrace77 · Finger Mullet Joined: 05 Oct 2017 Posts: 43

This one is really good that you done fly fishing Smile

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lifeaquatic · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:35 pm Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 5:15 am Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 5:18 am Post subject:

for 10 years I tried to invent a kicking shrimp fly.
When I ran across Ally's shrimp, it all clicked.

This is my go-to skinny water fly.

orange kevlar thread
tail is bucktail and krystal flash
stainless bead chain
palmered rooster hackle
pheasant crest wing
pheasant rump soft hackle collar

2nd cast of the morning on Allyn's Lake - 1st cast was a larger spec that tore the hook out on her 2nd run

ratherbefishing · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:10 am Post subject:

That is one solid trout!!!
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:59 am Post subject:

got one more to show you - this epoxy crab has been in the fly box for 20 years.
The colors have faded and can't get lighting to show the epoxy is transparent.

Got the idea walking along the beach - crabs run sideways, threatening you with their big claw.
The claws are small hen hackles and the big rear claw has a thread (long thin tuft) of orange wool.
The eyes are a U of mono with burned ends - big 40-lb leader butt.
Loosely spun olive bucktail, cut to shape, epoxy, trim again and epoxy again.
I normally don't like throwing this much weight.
But a 32" redfish and a 25" black drum in skinny water each saw this fly scooting on sandy bottom (back of Fence Lake), also saw me,
each turned away, shuddered, ran back and grabbed the fly - exact same behavior happened twice on two big fish.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:58 am Post subject:

for jetties and tide passes, Hi-tie is killer.
When wet, it collapses and casts like a thread, big profile and pushes water.
Easy to tie, pinched stacks of bucktail along the hook shank - don't need the doll eyes and epoxy, pick your colors.

jacks on Lydia Ann shore

BayFly · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:45 am Post subject:

Love the crab fly, but I would imagine the tying time causes few to be made. However, it looks very durable? Thanks for posting it.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:30 am Post subject:

after 20 years, some of the bucktail has broken off, but that fly was fished 20 years ago and carried on every trip since in a small plano box

wrapped chenille pushes water well, and this fly has caught Many flounder at Cedar Bayou slowly dragged on the sand.

tail is 2 small saddles beneath 2 marabou tips

we called this fly the Fence Lake roach, schooling reds in the back of the lake and many specs along the grass line at S. Padre

All tied at the back of the hook (like all roach patterns), a pair of colored rooster saddles topped with hen saddles, of course some flash underneath
a marabou feather wrapped as a collar
again, the doll eyes and epoxy is optional - over time, the red dye has bled along the black thread
basically a fly rod cocahoe minnow, and another fly that casts small but makes a big profile in the water

DawnPatrolVeteran · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:20 am Post subject:

Bulldog you have the touch....those are nice.
I need slot more time for tying......

Have you tied a Chin Slinky for Black Drum yet?
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:08 am Post subject:

the first fly I posted catches black drum in sight-fishing water, and the hi-tie on a sinking line catches them in tide passes.

Bro, I've been doing this since 1974, been through Many flies, but now I stick to what has worked best for me - my fly boxes are getting smaller.