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And the pattern is there too now.
Thanks Ed
KP
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Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 3:22
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Weighted Dry
Flies
I'll put it on the list because I think I still owe it to Keith
for the IOFF swap (you can see a picture of it at http://fnfwilts.tripod.com/id15.html)
- this is adapted from another pattern I found in a book - they actually used
epoxy glue to make each of the segments, but beads are so easier.
Hook: 12-16 Dry Fly hook
Thread: Black Uni 6/0
Body:
2 Black 8/0 Seed Beads (or resized based on hook)
Butt: 1 Red 8/0 Seed Bead
(or resized based on hook)
Legs: 1 Grizzly Hackle, single or double wrap
(preference)
I use dry fly hooks since they are usually thinner, and
the glass seed beads don't have a large opening. Experiment with the
length and size of the beads to match the area you are fishing. Slide
each of the beads on first. Start the thread behind the butt
segment. Build up just enough to keep the bead on. Loop between
the red and middle black bead. Again, build up just enough to keep the
bead in place. In between the 2 black beads, tie in and wrap the hackle
for the legs. At the eye, build up and tie off. I add a drop of
glue in between each bead, including the back and at the eye just to stabilize
it. Since it's going to sink, doesn't matter much.
On 12/24/05, Reuven
Segal <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
G'day there
Ed:
Would you mind mailing me the
pattern and any other info that may be important
please.
Many
thanks,
Reuven
-----Original
Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Roden
Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2005 1:43
AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [VFB] Weighted Dry
Flies
You can weight them or design them
differently - I have a glass bead ant that I use to fish subsurface.
One of the articles I read commented that you don't really see ants stay on
top of the water long - they struggle and start to sink. This pattern
is great on Paint Creek here by my house - I'll fish it as a dropper with an
adams as my indicator.
On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was wondering if
I'm the only one that does this. I weight some "Dry Flies" with lead wire to
make them sink...There is a few in particular, and I have had real good luck
with it... Foam Beetles, Foam Spiders (or any bluegill foam fly with rubber
legs).. Ants, and letort hoppers..
At least THIS time
of the year because I only fish for bluegill (and bass( because there are NO
trout here. The fish are not feeding on top, even in the late evening, like
they do in the Spring/Summer.. So, I started weighting these flies to
"get the flies to where the fish are". Anybody else do this??? Any others
you weight that I didn't mention and you have good luck with. That weighted
Letort Hopper, tied in a dark brown (almost black) with rubber segmented
legs is great, because around here, one of the best fishing for brim is done
with hook, sinker, bobber, and live crickets.. Well, by tying those in dark
color to look like a cricket, and "twitching" it through the water to make
it look alive..... It is a great fly....Or, am I just a nutcase of the
group??? Allan Fish you do NOT get to answer that LOL... All the DVD's,
Tapes I have seen say to "experiment"... so I do. All you other "dry fly
weighters" come out of the closet and join Me
LOL... Chuck
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