I guess it's only important to figure out what they look like to fish!
Kev
From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:58:38 -0600
Kevin,
To me they look like a cross between a caterpillar and an earthworm.
DonO
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From: "Kevin Machon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: RE: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
> DonO:
>
> Although not related, they are often listed in fly fishing books in the
same
> chapter as hellgrammites (dobsonflies, family corydalidae).
>
> Looking at the picture you noted, I see hellgrammite w/out
appendiges......
>
> Just a thought
>
> Kev
>
>
>
> From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: [VFB] Cranefly photos and nymph
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:05:09 -0600
>
> See worm-nymph photo 4th row from the bottom on right.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/craneflies_tipulidae
>
> The worm-dunkers swear by these for live bait. A good fly should work
also.
> Working on it.
>
> DonO
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DonO
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: Rock Worm - DonO
>
>
> JimmyD,
>
> Thanks. I don't know if these were tied to imitate the specific worm
I
> saw, but my version would be a very clean, non-fuzzy fly- like a garden
> worm. If there was a sinking foam, it would be perfect shaped in a
tapered
> segmented tube. I'm thinking of a tiny rolled laytex cigar-shaped deal,
> tying just the head to a small hook and letting the body move in the
> current.
>
> DonO
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jimmy D. Moore
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:27 PM
> Subject: [VFB] Re: Rock Worm - DonO
>
>
> On page 234 Perrault's Std. Dictionary of Fishing Flies I found two
> patterns for the Rock Worm. Neither of these were the green version.
> Hope this helps.
>
> JIMMY D
>
> Fly - Rock Worm
> Body: Tan linen thread
> Hackle: Badger soft collar
> NOTE: Rhyachophila lobifera
>
> Fly - Rock Worm
> Body: Black dyed ostrich herl
> Hackle: Badger hair spun as hackle
> Head: Black thread.
>
> DonO wrote:
>
>
> Met a guy dunking worms with his 8 yr old son, and struck up a
> friendship. They were using Colorado meat rigs, i.e. fly rods with
> automatic reels and mono line, with split shot and either a crawler or a
> rock worm. I gave the little guy some flies which included a scud, and
he
> proceeded to catch a 3-lb sucker and an almost 5lb carp on the scud. The
> night before he caught and landed a 2.7lb brown on a rock worm larva.
>
>
>
>
>
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