[VFB] My Potato Beetle Fly

[Chuck Alexander]

Folks: My wife and kids LOVE Sunflower seeds, and were eating them the other day when i was tying some foam beetles, so I took a standard foam beetle pattern... Wrapped 4-5 strands of peacock herl for the "legs" all along the hook shank.. then, took  a half of a sunflower seed, and used CA (super glue) glue to glue that shell to the peacock herl... then, Since most beetles have shiny wings etc.. i painted the shell with a cpl layers of hard as nails clear... Well, yesterday afternoon, by golly that thing caught fish LOL.. Just a few Small Bluegill, but fish nonetheless.. Only thing I'm gonna change next time, it that the shell floated, and the fish are in deeper cooler water, so I'll wrap a few turns of lead wire around the shank...The striped pattern on the sunflower shells looks just like "Potato Beetles" that are EVERYWHERE around here, so I guess the fish have eaten those before... Chuck