Well, since I successfully twisted and hijacked RRP’s thread let’s do this. (Sorry)
These ugly things look like drowned crickets. (More like smashed crickets?). But with a glass bead on a #10 jig hook they sink quickly thru the dink zone. I also make them in brown and they’re my best bream buster. The red threads have a few twists of lead wire to get them down fast.
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No need to apologize for the comments. You know what your talking about and I love the discussion. Like I said prior, I love using some #10 or #12 gamakatsu bonefish hooks. Incredibly sharp and last a long time. I haven’t gotten much into the minnow patterns as the bug ones work well enough for me. I have been to farm ponds and caught 30-50 fish with one on almost every cast. I am convinced if I was to be stranded on an island or lost in a Forrest, a fly rod would be one of the things I would want to take with me. You can flat catch any fish with it.
Below are some of my standards that I tie and use. Like I said most of these are modeled off carp patterns and then I just scale them down for panfish. They are cheap, quick and easy which is a rule I follow for almost all my flies I tie. Don’t mind the mess in the background. My tying table is a mess right now as I have some carp I have been trying to catch in a pond and been tying patterns on the whim when I get the chance to go.
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I like the idea of carp flies. I normally tie stuff that rides point up because it helps avoid snags. For crappie and gills I use the Eagle Claw gold minnow hooks because they’re light wire. If I get hung up they’ll usually pull free. The carp ones are tied on a little heavier hook though. I found a few hundred floating jig heads for $.50/dozen several years ago in #6&4. The idea was to make a little popper wiggly thing. Look nice but nothing seems to eat floaters here (?).
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These are upside down for the pictures but I tie them with the bead chain eyes so they ride hook up. You get really good hook ups in the top of the mouth always. It's weird that they won't eat anything floating there. They will eat them here but not as easily as the sinking bugs. I usually have to wait until 30-45 minutes until dark before they will eat them.
If I were a bluegill, I'd eat um.Originally Posted by fr8dog
Looks like that fish got you with one of its spines. Been known to happen to me on occasion, too.
I get stabbed a few times but in this case revenge is a dish best served hot! Straight out of the deep fryer with fries, hushpuppies, and slaw. And a beer (or three)
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OOOHHHH mouth watering.
1993 Tracker Pan fish 16
Lookin' good! Tasty as well.
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1993 Tracker Pan fish 16
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Good stuff.
The second one in an 8 or 10 would be great around here. Gotta get it down to @ 8’ for the big ones. I wish everyday that they would bust on little poppers. That is some big fun. They just don’t play that game where I fish.
Sometimes I get a surprise......
Sweet! All I ever get surprised by are drum. Fun but ‘meh’. Never lucked into a bass that big on a panfish fly.
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