What's Your Favorite Fly For...

Why are most crawfish patterns generally tied in orange? Except for
cooked ones, all the crawfish I've seen are primarilly greenish,
brownish, and grayish in color.

Maybe the fish like them cooked too?

Willi

"Willi" wrote in message
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Why are most crawfish patterns generally tied in orange? Except for
cooked ones, all the crawfish I've seen are primarilly greenish,
brownish, and grayish in color.


There are some crayfish (note Northern spelling) that are reddish when live.
Here's an example:
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/htdocs2/htdocs2/crawfish.jpg . Some of the ones
I see in Mass have a lot of orange with a background of brownish-green.
--
Stan Gula

Hooked,
We have a difference of opinion on the "gamest fish that
swims". I think it is the West Coast Native Steelhead.
Ernie


"Hooked" wrote in message
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I don't fish much for trout, and I was just wondering, how
many of you
fish
for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for
catching the "gamest
fish that swims"?

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.

Thanks George. I never would have known about these critters 'till you
mentioned it.

Still haven't seen any. Probably never will either. But now that I know they
exist, I'll be able to keep an eye open for them.

"Ernie" wrote in message
om...
Hooked,
We have a difference of opinion on the "gamest fish that
swims". I think it is the West Coast Native Steelhead.
Ernie




I was only quoting a quote I heard a long time ago. "Pound for pound, the
smallmouth is the gamest fish that swims."

I don't remember who said it, but I'm sure it won't be long before someone
reading this comes up with the right answer.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:49:28 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .

Here's a link to the native lampreys in Wisconsin.

http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/seiche/mar.02/art03.html


The Koch's Lamprey is a local tie. Simple to make. It has a 3" zonker
type tail tied over a matching dubbed body. At the front of the hook
you tie in a pair of lead dumbell eyes. Tand then dub in a band of red
right behind them to represent the gills. The zonker strip is tied at
the front of the hook and then pulled over the dubbed body and
attached again where the hook bend starts.

Thanks George. I never would have known about these critters 'till you
mentioned it.

Still haven't seen any. Probably never will either. But now that I know they
exist, I'll be able to keep an eye open for them.

If you look, I bet you'll see them. They're pretty common in the upper
midwest The first time I saw them was when I was a kid. I grew up on a
farm on the Black river in central Wisconsin and spent as much time
fishing and hunting as was possible. One day in the summer I was
wading down stream and saw what a thought was a shredded rag caught on
someting on the bottom (Today I'd assume it was a plastic garbage
bag.) On closer exmination it turned out to be a swarm of small
lampreys. They cluster together when they spawn. It yucked me out at
the time in extremis. By the way, they die after spawning and the
Lamprey fly does not work nearly as well after the middle of July.


g.c.

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:55:18 GMT, "Hooked" wrote:

"Ernie" wrote in message
. com...
Hooked,
We have a difference of opinion on the "gamest fish that
swims". I think it is the West Coast Native Steelhead.
Ernie




I was only quoting a quote I heard a long time ago. "Pound for pound, the
smallmouth is the gamest fish that swims."

I don't remember who said it, but I'm sure it won't be long before someone
reading this comes up with the right answer.


Dr. Henschall back around the turn of the century. The previous
century, that is.


g.c.

The fly is very simple. Use Red Fox body fur (creamy reddish orange - light
color with gray underfur) for the "underwing'. I like two to four strands
of copper flashabou longer than the belly. Then the top wing is red fox
tail fur - much darker reddish brown.

I will post a pic to ABPF

Joe

"Wayne P" wrote in message
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for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for catching the
"gamest
fish that swims"?

Foxee Red Clouser Minnow - an excellent imitation of a fleeing soft craw
or
small sculpin.

Joe C.

Joe, would you mind posting the colors etc for that?

wayne

Thanks! - looking forward to seeing pic

wayne



"Cornmuse" wrote in message
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The fly is very simple. Use Red Fox body fur (creamy reddish orange -
light
color with gray underfur) for the "underwing'. I like two to four strands
of copper flashabou longer than the belly. Then the top wing is red fox
tail fur - much darker reddish brown.

I will post a pic to ABPF

Joe

"Wayne P" wrote in message
...
for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for catching the
"gamest
fish that swims"?

Foxee Red Clouser Minnow - an excellent imitation of a fleeing soft
craw
or
small sculpin.

Joe C.

Joe, would you mind posting the colors etc for that?

wayne

"Hooked" wrote in message
...
I don't fish much for trout, and I was just wondering, how many of you
fish
for smallmouth bass and what is your favorite fly for catching the "gamest
fish that swims"?



A variation of Popovic's 'Semper Fleye' tied by a friend in Philly. He
calls it a 'Spey Fleye'

Tail: Matched hackles and flash, per the Semper Fleye
Body: Estaz
Collar: Spey hackle, tips should come past hook point when wet
Epoxy head with large prism eyes. Red thread collar in front of the hackle,
if you like.

Smallies knocked 'em all over the local tribs last year in white and in
chartreuse.

Jason