No problem, and i bet it would work for bluegills. They tend to eat a lot of scuds around here.
john ridderbos "Thomas Aufiero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John and others- > I am a lurker, as I have confessed before. Mostly, because I don't feel >that I have much to add to the discussions by the time I get to read them. I >mostly the list because I wanted to try my hand at fly swaps, and because >this list was by far the gentlest to newbies and outsiders. Also, I am >always concerned that I do not express myself well in the email format. >Cleary I did a bad job with my earlier post, and rather than belabor the >point- > >John, �I apologize. > >Now I'd like to share my secret go to fly with the list. It works 365 days >per year on a well known and heavily fished stream in central PA (spring >creek, center county). This stream has a high population of cress bugs (not >scuds mind you). Though any scud, shrimp, cress bug pattern will take fish, >the perfect cress bug pattern is a hotly debated topic around here. >Variations include: with or without shell back, dorsal stripe, ribbing, and >color, ect. For me, the object was to find pattern that was effective, >imitative (my personal preference) but easily tied, because to fish cress >bugs effectively on this stream, your apt to loose a few. In addition, I >always have a few to give to out of town guys who don't know the local >traditions yet. > >This is certainly not a unique or original pattern, and I make no claims tht >it is my own, other than it is my go to fly on my home water. > >Her goes: > >Hook; �Dai Riki 305 size 18 - 12, but mostly 14 and 16 >Thread; �Dark brown 6-0 >Dubbing; 50/50 mix of Haretron #11 olive and Hairline #24 chocolate �brown >dubbed very heavy in a dubbing loop. And wound very tight, just to the >breaking point of the thread, to bury the thread deep into the body. > >Pick out the dubbing on both sides with a bodkin, and trim the top and >bottom very severely. With practice you can get this so close that it will >look segmented. Trim the sides so that when viewed from the top the fly >resembles a football (I do fish in the shadow of Penn State after all). Then >color the back bone of the top with a fine tip dark brown marker to >represent the vein. > >Who knows, this might even work for bluegills- > >Tom Aufiero > > > >
