Gary: I intend to fish them mainly with a 6 wgt, though I can probably cast them with my 5 wgt. It just wouldn't be very pretty. They're tied on light wire worm hooks, and the only really heavy materials on them are the eyes and epoxy head. The weedless ones are for the snakeheads that hang out in the lakes in South Philly and pike in Ontario, along with bass or Muskie in the local lakes. I'll probably using a WFF line with them most of the time. My favorite way to fish Crease flies is either off a sink tip or intermediate sinking line with a short leader, maybe 4 feet or so long. With the sink tip I'll count the line down, hopefully it will get to the bottom. What happens is the fly will suspend above the bottom. When you strip the line, the fly dives for the bottom, pause and it floats back up. If you strip without pausing it will bounce off the bottom like certain lures do. Otherwise you can fish them like a popper or chugger. Depends on how wide the mouth is. I do some with a wide mouth, some with a smaller mouth, and some I close the mouth up completely and do a bit of trimming and sanding to give them an almost lure-like shape. I'll fish all three types off of the sinking line. Jerry C "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." In a message dated 4/10/2007 16:53:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jerry, I love looking at your fly. 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 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
