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>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part V
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J-Vise, I believe.
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J vise
Kyle
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i have caught more carp on flys with eyes. then not. for whatever reason carp like flys with eyes. nice fly you tied there.
Facemelted
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Some hot butt buzzers for Loch Corrib next Spring. Fun tying these, you can get into a serious rhythm! Size 10’s.
dc410
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The popular bonefish fly the “Crazy Charlie” is also a great design for a carp fly. They just always tie them in the wrong colors with way too much flash. Russ Madin designed this variation of the “Crazy Charlie” and called it the “Carp Charlie”. It’s a very effective carp pattern with its rusty color, movement of the marabou and contrast of the grizzly saddle tips. I’ve done well with it over the past few years of carpin’. This one is tied on a size 8 Mustad 3906 3X heavy hook with medium black bead chain eyes.
nice work
Fish Sticks
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Fish Sticks
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My 1/4rth sized sculpin helmet jigs with no sculpin helmet for browns, fall fish and rock bass.
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Thank you!
Fish Sticks
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Most versatile streamer i have ever fished. Swung unweighted its a mouse, swung with split shot foot and a half up its a floating sculpin fished similarly to off a sink tip. Put a shot right on the nose above the clinch knot can fish a neutrally buoyant streamer style. The floating head combined with a ability to move/remove weight is something I really like.
bdhoover77
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What material do you use for the collar?
Fish Sticks
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Saddle hackles, the really whispy thin one’s on the back of the cape
dc410
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A version of the Clouser Foxee Redd Minnow tied for carp. Yeah, I know this is an awesome Smallmouth pattern but it’s a great carp pattern as well. Carp do eat minnows and they will eat this pattern … sometimes! 😉 I always keep a few of these in my carp box as a bit of a change up and it has produced consistently for me over the years. I tie it very small on a size 8 hook with lots of movement from the red fox fur, a minimal bit of flash and the bead chain eyes for some weight with a subtle presentation. Tight lines and screamin’ reels!
dc410
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I thought that due to the lack of a swim bladder that Sculpins are pretty much a bottom dwelling critter.
hooker-of-men
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Posted in purple before. Those worked well so, so tying a bunch in black to go with em.
Fish Sticks
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Yea if you fish it with shot it stays near the bottom but if you fish it weight less it fishes just like a mouse fly. Lol i have no idea what they think it is. When its floating 1.5 feet behind a split shot strips tend to pull it back towards to bottom and it raises slightly with a pause but the current pulling it downstream of the weight keeps it pretty close to bottom. I never really fish it mid column. Usually either top as a mouse or near bottom as a sculpin. But who knows what they think it is.
dc410
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I understand your first sentence clearly. Beyond that I’m still having a problem processing it, but I’m still thinking! When we stop thinking …. we’re done.
Fish Sticks
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If you put an AB or two like 12-18” from the fly the weight sits on the bottom. So when you strip the line floating head gets pulled towards the split shot which is on the bottom. But if you don’t strip and pause the current pulls the fly downstream and when the shot is sitting on the bottom still but the fly is getting pulled down and when it runs outta room it goes taught behind the shot thats on the bottom. Lol its easier if you just watch it in a shallow riffle.
Disclaimer i imagine its a sculpin. They could think its a cheese steak from Tony Lukes in south philly. What ever it is they seem to like it.
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