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Salmo Bytes
October 27th, 2003, 03:45 PM
The Jellyfish has been evolving rapidly, last few weeks.
Been catching a lot of fish on this fly too (even caught some
of the famous "Red Side" Deschutes River Rainbows on this fly,
just last week, while taking a break from swingning Steelhead
flies.

The Jellyfish:

1) Sinks fast
2) Has Mr Twistertail like action in the water
3) Good light-catching flash
4) It's softm si they often bite this fly and hang on, or bite multiple times.
5) Because it's a tube fly, the hook is held at the
rear end of the fly, which solves a problem I was having
with "short strikes" on an earlier version that was
built around a standard wetfly hook.

To get the most out of this fly you have to overcome
the troutfisherman's arm jerk strike reaction and
set the hook with a strip strike, like a bonefisherman does.

If you *miss* the strike, lifting the rod tip pulls the fly too
far upwards and away from the fish. A short quick (but missed) strip strike
leaves the fly in front of the fish. Because the fly is soft
and squishy, you may well (often will) get a second hit....
as long as you don't lift the rod tip, that is.