Chromers,
I was going to ask if you used the red hooks but I read where you used red brassies.
I was sitting at my tying bench Friday evening and found a hook with a silver bead on
it. I was too lazy to put the bead away so I wrapped the body with red wire and left
the bead on.
That fly sank real fast and some fish were "dumb" enough to give me confidence on a
red wire bodied bloodworm.
You use a red brassie much?
Bill
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> Fished Saturday with three buddies. We arrived at Lenice about 10 a.m. and
> seemed to catch the tail end of the only really active feeding activity we
> witnessed all day. We managed two fish and one breakoff in a couple hours.
> Both fish fell to size 16 chironomids, one olive, the other black. These fish
> were typical chunky 16- to 18-inchers.
>
> In the afternoon we headed over to Nunnally and hooked about 10 fish, landing
> only three. But one was a really nice 22-inch 'bow -- a dark looking
> carryover fish. All the others were much brighter. Red was the ticket here.
> Size 16-20 red brassies, and other simple patterns produced our bites. Red
> seemed to be the go-to color for the other float tubers on the lake too.
>
> With red working so well, you'd think my experimental red fluorescent hook
> with the peacock herl would have produced, but that wasn't the case. I think
> it would be a better deep water pattern -- if effective at all. It sank too
> fast to work in the shallow water we targeted most of the day and didn't get
> a touch.
>
> Not the 20-plus-fish day I had hoped for, but it beat the hell out of yard
> work.
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