I just contacted Mike. We are long time friends. The tail Marabou is "Burnt Orange", my name is TONY, and I don't drink. LOL I am going to send him a sample of the "right stuff". He is right about the Pepper and dirty water. A number of times I have fished the pepper in dirty water after a hard rain and it has produced well. Tony
--- Neville Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following excerpted from Badger Creek Fly Tying > August Newsletter by Mike > Hogue: - > > I was sent an email by Toni Spezio of Arkansas > (formerly of NJ) a while > back. He has been bragging about his Chili Pepper > fly which is a very nasty > looking wooly bugger. I tied some and used them in > some of the very dark > colored water after the recent rains we had. Some of > the water looked like > coal it was so dark. Anyway, I had to look up this > silly fly in the new > Woolly Wisdom by Gary Soucie. Guess what it worked! > Almost too well. I've > caught chain pickerel, crappies ( 10"ers!), > largemouth, smallies, a few odd > warmouths, bluegills and a few perch. This fly is > troutless for me so far > but I suspect that I will catch some fall run fish > with this one. Not bad > for a beer fly ( those are ones you design by > drinking alot of beer, or > bottled water as they like to call it in Wisconsin.) > I'll give you the > pattern I used: 9672, size 8, gold bead 5/32, copper > chenille, brown hackle, > copper Krystal flash in the tail, rusty > ginger/copper marabou, fire flo > orange thread 6/0. > > Email me if you catch anything on this thing. I will > send it on to Toni. I > can't say that this is the best fly I ever tried but > it has worked this year > in the nasty water. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stuff for sale: > > Chili Pepper Materials: > > 6/0 fire orange thread: $1.50 > Copper Chenille: $1.75 > Rusty Brown Blood Marabou: $2.00 > Hareline Brown Woolly Saddle: $16.50 > Gold Beads: $2.25 > Copper Krystal Flash: $3.50 > Get the whole set for $25.00!!!!!! > as an added bonus, I will toss in one extra card of > copper crystal chenille. > > > Chili Pepper tied by me: $2.00 each. If you are Toni > Spezio or live in New > Jersey, I have a special: $18.95 each ( this is my > extra for NJ sales tax. I > recently had a very bad experience with well, I > would just as soon not talk > about it......... ) > > Neville (Nev) Gosling > Greater Vancouver, > B.C. Canada > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
