I haven't done it yet, but yes, they are using fly rods. The guy that I watched tie, today, had been out numerous times and lots of the fly anglers do ice fish. My brother, from Logan, Utah has been out several times. Chartruese seemed to be the hot pattern for the tier I was talking to. The pattern has a chartruese, marabou tail, a chartruese, flash chenille body, the heavy, dumbell eyes and finished off between the eyes and in front with the chenille. First, just behind the eyes tied in the middle of the strands, is green flashabou and then the front strands layed back with the rest of the strands and secured down. This method keeps the slippery flashabou from falling out. He had a picture of a humongous brook trout that he'd caught with this pattern just recently. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: tying > Jere, are they using a full length fly rod to jig or taking advantage of > some of the accidently shortened rods that we all have. I get out ice > fishing once and awhile during the winter but have always opted for a short > spinning rod. I have often thought about jigging but never explored it. > > Thanks for the fly info. > > Mike > > >
