Haven’t made a post for several years but continue to lurk. I’ve been doing a lot of indicator fishing in still-water and have been experimenting with small leach patterns using ultra light jig hooks. Not just the fancy fly hooks designed for use with slotted tungsten beads, but traditional jig hooks used by gear fisherman, in the ultra-light sizes; 1/64 oz - 1/124 oz. They are typically hooks in size 8 through 10 standard length (at least the hooks I’ve found locally) and I’ve been using rabbit fur for the tails an ice dub for the body. I’ll also simply tie them like a wooly bugger (chili-pepper style)
Sometimes I’ll add a brightly colored bead in the mix, and will attach a traditional fly as a dropper (maybe a size 16 BHPT, or a similar chironomid. I think they hang better from an indicator, and impart a lot of motion to the dropper. In the past I’ve been using a bugger pattern as an attractor, but have caught most of the fish on the smaller dropper. With the micro-jigs the catches are 50-50. Tom Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2018, at 2:17 PM, 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail > <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Tying Dr. Mikes for donations. Then pan fish bitch creek, followed by furled > tail leeches. > > Rick > > > From: Rene Zillmann <rene.zillm...@t-online.de> > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:13 PM > Subject: [VFB] What is in your vices? > > Hi, > > winter is approaching - at least in the northern part of the globe. > > What are you doing to tie next? > > I'll do 2 main things: > > I will ty a lot of my parachute beetles, but with different body colors, > to the the effect of the various colors next year. > > And I'll do some variations for EHCs for a similar reason. > > And what are you doing? > > > Rene > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
