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Salmo Bytes
February 28th, 2004, 08:12 PM
http://montana-riverboats.com/static_pages/Flies/Sandy_Pittendrigh/01-Lures/PonziFish/PonziFish.html

There's been a lot of discussion recently--about
what is a lure and what is a fly. Some things are
clearly lures and some things are clearly flies.
But gray area boundry between the two is not so easy
to define. Impossible, even, perhaps.

Anyway I made the above link as a reference point.
The Ponzifish is a lure, no doubt about it. It looks
like a lure, it smells like a lure and it's way too heavy
to cast with a fly rod. I offer it as a public service
benchmark. I've got a spinning rod somewhere...haven't
put a line on it years. A decade, even maybe.
I might have to fire it up again someday.
Now that I've made the Ponzifish, I've got to try
fishing it someday.

I'll bet these things would make a stir on the
Pro-Bass circuit. I'll have to send one to one of
those guys.

Stephen Welsh
February 28th, 2004, 10:25 PM
(Salmo Bytes) wrote in
om:

> I'll bet these things would make a stir on the
> Pro-Bass circuit. I'll have to send one to one of
> those guys.
>

They might like this too ...

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~steve/jb.jpg

as "tied" by a friend ... Crystal Chenille head
and thread and some sort of soft-plastic body.

Hmmm ... if you get it banned on the bass circuit
would that make it a 'fly' ?
;-)

Steve