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Done with all my surf candy silverside versions. Settled on this as my favorite color scheme.  Its EP gamechanger "shrimp" color with silver saltwater flashabou for lateral line and silver body braid wrapped around hook shank to create belly sac.4C47D322-0D49-4615-BDBB-510309235695.jpeg.5ebf83e7dba045d24333caf7c847aac1.jpeg9534347F-309D-4DEF-A631-39F4828E59FF.jpeg.540e4464851b841dba0f2680eb6bdd12.jpeg

 

This is soaking in water very translucent just like the real baitfish.

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Wet in hand shot

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TGS question on the clousers previous page what are those called with the white lead eyes I've seen them at Eldridge brothers shop in Maine and are very effective do they have a name?  Are you going to try your hand at any of the crab pot flies?  My PB striper off Maine came off one of James's CP fly.

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Hook 1: I just love the looks of your big trout streamer so I tied a half-dozen for brookies making one slight change, taking a bit of the white bucktail in the wing and tying it as a long throat and adding a few peacock herl as a topping. I don't know what type of flash you used for the body but just looking at it I would have tried to match it by using Hedron Flashabou Mirage in pearl but what I have is too narrow. So I used pearl Lateral Scale. And I tied them on Mustad 3xl hooks #8. And it's the first freshwater fly I've ever tied using pink material and the second, chartreuse material. So here's one (and if my friends ask me what20200425_093910.jpg.94b849bcfaa8281e9aa2b0fd9387e52b.jpg they are, I will just say "a Hook 1 streamer").

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On 4/24/2020 at 7:14 AM, scooleen74 said:

TGS question on the clousers previous page what are those called with the white lead eyes I've seen them at Eldridge brothers shop in Maine and are very effective do they have a name?  Are you going to try your hand at any of the crab pot flies?  My PB striper off Maine came off one of James's CP fly.

Those clouser variations are called "the guitar minnow".  There are several videos on how to tie them.  I followed the one on Back Harbor Fly .com 

 

The crab pot is a great fly.  I don't fish crabs the way James does very often at night.  Typically I am fishing them under an indicator like a traditional nymph rig.  I prefer my unweighted mesh crabs for that approach they hang up less.  Where I fish them is current rips with rocks and mussel beds.  

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Been tying finger mullet and mud minnow patterns using EP brushes, with a few EP pinfish and regular clousers - a few examples below. Also sewed up a few fly wallets with some buffalo hide I got off ebay. These are crude but will work. The first few I did looked like frankenstein stitching but were also usable. 

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I tied these flies for the grass carp I recently discovered in a local lake. The first ones that look like bonefish flies I tied to resemble patterns I was seeing on the internet for carp flies, that was before I realized that the grass carp I was targeting were totally different and were strictly vegetarian. Then I tied the others to look like grass. Many of the materials were scavenged from cat toys and the bead chain eyes came from the pull chain on the ceiling fan (just don't tell my girlfriend about that)

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SWAGGER: scientific wild ass guess gotten exactly right. Swagger.

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On 4/26/2020 at 0:49 PM, MooreLyonQuick said:

Been tying finger mullet and mud minnow patterns using EP brushes, with a few EP pinfish and regular clousers - a few examples below. Also sewed up a few fly wallets with some buffalo hide I got off ebay. These are crude but will work. The first few I did looked like frankenstein stitching but were also usable. 

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This is great man.  Crafting one of these has been on my to do list for a while now. Nice work. I have canvas, shearling, and bee’s wax. Might be time to get to town on it. 

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Tiger - not sure where the name comes from, but I believe this is another spey conversion to flatwing.  In lieu of cantaloupe hackle and bucktail, I used UV2 Pastel Orange Flatwing hackles by Hareline Dubbin, which I purchase from Waters West Fly Shop in WA state.Feathers are impressively wide over their entire length.  The only disadvantage is that they do not lend themselves to being laid flat on a clean paper towel after you run the fly under very hot water to shape the bucktail - so I hang them to dry using a bent paper clip.  The bucktail is a pastel orange a well, but a little more vibrant, almost like a dull peach in color.

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