On Mar 29, 9:29 pm, Willi wrote:


I use them in warm water for Bass and especially Crappie. Never tried
it on trout, but I'm not much of a streamer guy.

I make mine differently. I use mylar tubing, which you probably have. I
tie on a tail of marabou, slide on the mylar tubing, tie it in at the
tail leaving a bit behind the tie in as a frayed skirt, then push the
rest of the tubing back toward the rear to make it flare out. Then tie
it in at the head. You can either then crimp it horizontal or vertical.
I often add either dumbell or bead chain eyes. You can coat it with
epoxy which is best but I'm usually lazy and just coat it with cement.

This picture is of the only one I could find done in a verticle
position. It was just lightly coated with regular cement:

http://crystalglen.net/Fishing/Spoonfly.jpg

Willi

That´s an interesting variation from Willi, but it will have a
completely different action.

The original is here;

http://www.flyfishlouisiana.com/Spoon_fly_1.htm

The amount and position of lead is critical for the correct action,
and getting the fly just right is a finicky business. The fingernail/
epoxy spoons described in the URL above are much easier to make, and
work with just the weight of the epoxy in the concave fingernail. A
guy form Florida wrote me that he had lots of fish on them, and he
used hot melt glue instead of epoxy.

TL
MC