I know I'm a couple of days behind, but here's the simplest pattern I've ever seen and it only adds one more material beyond a simple wooly bugger - a strip of foam. Here's how it goes.
1) Attach Thread and wind to tail.
2) Tie in a 1/4" wide strip of crawfish colored foam. I used a more open cell stuff that was used to protect hard drives at the time I frist started tieing these.
3) Tie up a wooly bugger like you normally would, going heavy on the marabou tail.
4) Once you've tied the wolly bugger, split the tail with the foam and use the foam as the shellback. I'll leave alittle foam sticking out over the eye of the hook sort of like a elk hair caddis' tail is.
BTW - Foam FLOATS. You will have to weigh this down some (ok alot) for it to work right BUT you can tie it hook point down yet still keep the hook off the bottom since the foam will cause it to float up some.
Hope this helps.
Garry
At 11:31 AM 4/26/2006, you wrote:
Jerry: I see, thanks... I'm kinda backwards LOL... Yeah, where I fish if a hook like that rode down, It would only last one cast, cause I gotta try to pull these outta some pretty heavy cover sometimes, Chuck
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:17 AM
- Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: Crawfish patterns
- Chuck:
- No, if you want the hook point(barb) to ride up, like a jig, you would put the hook in your vise like you normally would to tie a fly, the eyes would be tied in on the top of the hook, not the barb side.
- Jerry C
- "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
- In a message dated 4/25/2006 23:57:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Jerry: I'll try that.. When you say things like tie in the eyes on TOP of the shank, since it is being tied in with the barb UP then you are actually tying these things on the barb side of the hook right??? Have I got that straight???? Thanks, Chuck
