Jerry,
I love looking at your flys. The guys in my club razz me for tying
big flys and then I look at yours and mine look small all of a
sudden. What weight rod do you use? All I have are floating lines
though, so working so far down the water column becomes difficult,
but I still want to try some of your patterns thou. I found a heart
shaped punch to make some of those poppers that you showed me at NEC
X in Cedar Run. That's another pattern that I have to finish and
try. I finally found a fly turner to dry flys after I put epoxy and
other coatings on them. I have some Crease Flys made up, just have
to coat and dry now. How do you fish those anyway? I can see where
you let them float and pop them across the top, but do you add some
weight and let it pull them under some?
Garry
Da'Burgh, PA
At 10:13 PM 4/9/2007, you wrote:
Hi Ronan:
Take this with a grain of salt as I'm apparently one of the few
people who don't have any luck catching fish with woolly buggers.
And for all of you snickering out there, I don't catch anything on
Clousers either. I do carry some buggers on occasion, three in
particular..White River Demon, Chili Pepper and the Catskill
Killer. All are tied 5-6 inches long. I'm influenced by salt water
patterns. So the bulk of my streamer/baitfish patterns are tied with
artificial hair. The closest things I tie using natural materials are these.
<http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/gallery4544154a1aca7.jpg>http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/gallery4544154a1aca7.jpg
The two on the have a name but I can't think of it off the top of my
head. The tail is just saddle hackle and flash, the body
schapplen(sp?)wrapped down the shank. The one on the top right is
what passes for a woolly bugger in my box. I tie it from 3 to 9
inches long depending where and what I'm fishing for. I've dubbed
it a Spey Fleye. Tail is bucktail, flash and saddle hackle, body
tied alternating two or three wraps of Estaz and three or four wraps
of Spey hackle.
The bottom right is a Bucktail Deceiver. I tie them small enough to
be used in the local streams for trout and large enough to use in
lakes for bass, muskie and pike and in salt water.
As far as fishing them, in streams I'll cast up and retrieve it
across the current. I'll cast up and let the fly drift and tumble
like an injured baitfish, especially if I'm working the top of a
pool/run. I'll feed out line if I have to, and then tighten the
line so the fly swings across the bottom of the pool/run, and then
strip it back to me.
I seldom fish them in tandem. When I do I'll have the streamer
behind a nymph or smaller streamer, trying to create the illusion of
a small fish chasing prey, or a larger fish chasing a smaller fish.
In lakes, depends on what I'm fishing for or how deep I want to
fish. Three of the flies in the picture I posted are tied with
weed guards. I'll fish them on a floating line if I want to
retrieve on top or just under the surface over weeds or weed beds,
otherwise I'll use an intermediate sinking line, to retrieve
through the weeds or weed bed. I also use the intermediate line if
I want fish in water 5 to 10 feet deep. Deeper than that I use a
sink tip or full sinking line, especially if I want to cover the
bottom of the water column. As far as the retrieve. I'll do
anywhere from a slow steady retrieve to as fast as I can strip with
both hands. One thing I like to do especially on the slower
retrieves is to work my rod tip while stripping. It gives the fly
an erratic motion.
Having probably violated every rule associated with streamer
fishing I'll turn it over to those who know what they're talking about.
Jerry C
"All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
