The Dark Side

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This can be a taboo subject if fly fishing circles.
Does this belong here?


Sandy, you may already have seen these

but

I thought of you when I ran across this page yesterday

http://www.petitjean.ch/eng/MagicHead/default.asp

http://www.petitjean.ch/eng/MagicHead/default.asp

Yes, I've seen those but haven't tried them (yet).
I will. I have a hunch they will make a streamer wobble,
as adveritzed, but with no tendancy to dive, the
way a lipped-lure does. For bass, surface wobblers
seem to be important lures. But for trout, my experience
tells me you need depth as well as wobble.

I bought his spring loaded dubbing clip kit. I don't use
it a lot, but it's worth having. It does work well
when I do what it does (when I do it?).

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I bought his spring loaded dubbing clip kit. I don't use
it a lot, but it's worth having. It does work well
when I do what it does (when I do it?).


It just so happens that the clip kit is why I visited the site yesterday.
I went to visit my buddy at his fly shop to stock up on some hooks, saw the
kit and asked about it ... he offered me 40% off as he'd had it on the shelf
a while, has too much money tied up in inventory, and things are slow right
now for him ...so I bought it along with the other stuff.

Be damned if I can figure how to use it ! I've always wanted to create a
'hackle' mix of dun hackle and sparkle organza for spinner ties and hoped to
pursue that end. I'm downloading some video footage I found showing the
clips in use, as I type this ... maybe that will help ... the tiny pictures
that came with the tool didn't.

Larry L wrote:
wrote


This can be a taboo subject if fly fishing circles.
Does this belong here?



Sandy, you may already have seen these

but

I thought of you when I ran across this page yesterday

http://www.petitjean.ch/eng/MagicHead/default.asp

In addition to that - in the Netherlands flies like
http://www.pikefly.com/roof/wobbler.htm these are very popular and
succesful for asp (Aspius aspius) fishing. The plastic wobble thingies
(by lack of a better word) at the bottom of the page are available in
the shops and easy to work with.
The text in the page I linked to is in Dutch, but the patterns are
fairly easy. The body material is foam.

--
Herman

Herman Nijland wrote:

http://www.pikefly.com/roof/wobbler.htm

....that's a good link. Good website too.

I'm not sure but it looks like the flys on that site only use 1 or 2
different colors of foam. Did they use a black marker for the other color?

Can someone look at the close up pics and let me know?

I thought it was 3 pieces of foam for a minute and couldn't figure out how
they did that.

Jixter


"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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Herman Nijland wrote:

http://www.pikefly.com/roof/wobbler.htm

...that's a good link. Good website too.

Jixter wrote:
I'm not sure but it looks like the flys on that site only use 1 or 2
different colors of foam. Did they use a black marker for the other color?

Can someone look at the close up pics and let me know?

I thought it was 3 pieces of foam for a minute and couldn't figure out how
they did that.

Jixter

Two colors of foam are normally used for the lure (can't call it a fly
any more), the side line is made by tying in a piece of antron, flash or
whatever you've got handy at the back of the fly, and tied along the
body after the segment is formed.
Nice, but not necessary - lures like these are fished on the big rivers
over here, in more than decent sizes. The fish don't seem to care :-).

Hope this helps,
Herman