Here in Michigan it is legally a spinner & not a fly. A fly is a single hook, no lead head, no spinner or wiggle device. There was a short time where beadhead & conehead flys were not legal in flys only water.
Bob H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Byard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Hanging Hardware on Your Flies > >I'm just wondering if anyone on the list puts hardware > >on their flies? Does anyone feel this is, well, just > >kind of wrong? Being relatively new (only a few years) > >to flyfishing, I'm open to new or even old ideas that > >have come around again, but somehow or another this > >seems to cross some kind of line, even though so > >knowledgeable and respected an authority as Mr Scheck > >endorses it. I know flyfishing and tying is a big > >tent, but I wonder how other people on the list feel. > > Well...I'll go on record here. When you attach hardware aka spinners > etc to your fly, it is no longer a fly. You might want to check your > local regs on FF only waters and see if they are within the legal > realm. The recent article in Fly Tying will more than likely result > in my NOT renewing my current subscription. If I was interested in > that type article, I'd subscribe to Field & Stream or BassMasters. > > Shall we now call a Mepps lure a fly? Or is it flyfishing just > because you can throw a small Rapala with a fly rod? I think not! > > No offense intended towards the spin fishers...I am still one of > those...;^) But let's call a fly a fly and a spinner a spinner...I > see no need to combine the two just to create a crossover. > > keep tyin'...or lure buildin'...byard > >
