PAFF snag-less streamer design challenge

Kgregor12

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I have been in the pre-contemplation phase of attempting to design a streamer that can be crawled right on the bottom at a turtles pace without snagging as the colder months often demand. Don’t know if it will work or not as far as avoiding snagging yet not making it unreasonably hard to hook a fish.

The dream would be something you could crawl over structure on the stream bottom with the same weedless/snagless ability as a texas rigger soft plastic or jig and pig with a brush guard. obviously any not fully exposed hook will sacrifice some hook up ratio. However, i’ll take a couple missed hook ups if the frequency is not excessive and I get more time in the strike zone without snagging and breaking off every 20th cast dredging bottom.

Submit your flies made to this end and the winner will have the honor of watching me change one feather, then claim it as my own design with a patent, come up with a catchy sexually inappropriate kelly gallup-esk name, and then watch me sell it to Orvis.

On your mark, get set, go
 
Ideas ripped off google images
 

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most recent attempt at this concept of a snagless streamer. Hard to see but I am holding it by a strand of mono I tied into the eye that serves as a place to attach different size interchangeable shot in place of a bead head that orients the fly upside down. Deer hair serves as semi stiff brush guard. If high sticking with a 10ft 4 weight mono rig angle of line itself coming off hook should prevent snags as well. Will see how she fishes.
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most recent attempt at this concept of a snagless streamer. Hard to see but I am holding it by a strand of mono I tied into the eye that serves as a place to attach different size interchangeable shot in place of a bead head that orients the fly upside down. Deer hair serves as semi stiff brush guard. If high sticking with a 10ft 4 weight mono rig angle of line itself coming off hook should prevent snags as well. Will see how she fishes. View attachment 1641238880
I wish I could see how you did that. Sounds like a great idea.
 
most recent attempt at this concept of a snagless streamer. Hard to see but I am holding it by a strand of mono I tied into the eye that serves as a place to attach different size interchangeable shot in place of a bead head that orients the fly upside down. Deer hair serves as semi stiff brush guard. If high sticking with a 10ft 4 weight mono rig angle of line itself coming off hook should prevent snags as well. Will see how she fishes. View attachment 1641238880
I haven't tried dredging flies that use bucktail to guard the hook, but I do know that method works wonderfully going through vegetation. I think it could be very effective while dredging also, if the deer hair is stiff enough to prevent getting caught up on rocks. I've had similar success with ep fiber guarding the hook
 
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