So does anyone fish or just nah???

[Adirondackstihl]

What works below Table Rock dam (Lake Taneycomo/White River) is really mundane.

Scud (fresh water shrimp?) imitation. Size 16-24. Gray or brown depending.

I have to get the son in law to thread on the really small ones. Shaky geezer can't see.

What's the dubbing material Carl? Looks like a muskrat blend?

 

[67L36Driver]

Dunno, we buy 'em at the fly shop down there.

Wading stirs up the gravel bottom and soon you have a bunch of trout lined up picking off tidbits.

Lazy geezer stands upstream from the kid and hooks them out from under his feet.[emoji6]

 

[Adirondackstihl]

Dunno, we buy 'em at the fly shop down there.

Wading stirs up the gravel bottom and soon you have a bunch of trout lined up picking off tidbits.

Lazy geezer stands upstream from the kid and hooks them out from under his feet.[emoji6]

Nymphing.......walk downstream
Dry fishing......walk upstream

 

[jakethesnake]

I have no polar bear myself, but I find skunk a real close substitute.
Don't have much of that left either, but I should have enough for a couple of those.

I'll post a couple I've had good luck with. You may laugh. I have a tough time following patterns as my supply of material is small. I dye stuff and occasionally find something that works Mainly all teasers. There isn't any fly fishing really done in Delaware. Very little. We have no trout here. They stock some every year but I like catching wild fish Not ones that they throw overboard. I guess maybe a few of the trout they stock live. But they aren't reproducing here

 

[Adirondackstihl]

Dunno, we buy 'em at the fly shop down there.

Wading stirs up the gravel bottom and soon you have a bunch of trout lined up picking off tidbits.

Lazy geezer stands upstream from the kid and hooks them out from under his feet.[emoji6]

This is a great scud.....

(Not mine)

 

[2stroke800]

did someone say fish?!? Couple decent kings for one weekend..

 

[jakethesnake]

Nice

 

[jakethesnake]

One is used the other that has the two hooks is what I prefer. Seems to do well for flounder and weakfish. I often put a spinner and several beads in front of that. I'm certainly not a true fly fisherman of any sort. The reason I like the two hooks.
I can use bigger strips of bait like a squid strip and it gives a better action to those teasers.
If you use minnows with this it seems to outcatch the plain bare hooks in shallowish water. Say 40 feet. I put up to 3 minnows on the two hook rig. Especially if the bait is small
I've seen cleaner work but these things only hold up for a single trip or three

 

[jakethesnake]

I believe those double hooks were called Ryder or rider hooks by mustad. Anyone know a source for those? I tie a smaller hook to the shank. The front is more of a bait holder than a hook
I make these jigs also. The heads on mine are solid colors though. I don't have an airbrush just yet. I pour the heads. I make all my sinkers and crap too
I bought this one to study. For some reason I've never fished it. Those cost a good bit of money like 8 bucks on up. When you're fishing in a wreck you are gonna lose a lot. I was losing a ton of jigs buck tails Is how I got interested in it at all.

 

[Adirondackstihl]

I believe those double hooks were called Ryder or rider hooks by mustad. Anyone know a source for those? I tie a smaller hook to the shank. The front is more of a bait holder than a hook
I make these jigs also. The heads on mine are solid colors though. I don't have an airbrush just yet. I pour the heads. I make all my sinkers and crap too
View attachment 65116 I bought this one to study. For some reason I've never fished it. Those cost a good bit of money like 8 bucks on up. When you're fishing in a wreck you are gonna lose a lot. I was losing a ton of jigs buck tails Is how I got interested in it at all.

I tied you a fly tonight

 

[Adirondackstihl]

@jakethesnake

 

[jakethesnake]

@jakethesnake

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That looks nice sir.

 

[jakethesnake]

I like the offset hooks I may try that myself.
How do you come out with that shiny little head. Just head cement or what have you got going on there

 

[Adirondackstihl]

I like the offset hooks I may try that myself.
How do you come out with that shiny little head. Just head cement or what have you got going on there

SHHN......(clear nail polish)

 

[jakethesnake]

SHHN......(clear nail polish)

Hard as nails?

 

[Adirondackstihl]

Hard as nails?

You got it!
Sally Hansens Hard As Nails

 

[jakethesnake]

You got it!
Sally Hansens Hard As Nails

I used that for a good while. Im using something different now. Actually liked the sally Hansen better. It's thicker than the stuff I have now.

 

[Jwalker1911]

Spoonies? What are they?

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Spoonbill.

 

[Jwalker1911]

I have no polar bear myself, but I find skunk a real close substitute.
Don't have much of that left either, but I should have enough for a couple of those.

I have a skunk hide that didnt get sold. Stretched and dried,I could cut some hairs for you.

 

[Adirondackstihl]

I have a skunk hide that didnt get sold. Stretched and dried,I could cut some hairs for you.

How much you want for the pelt?
Once the hair has been removed from the skin, without putting it in a stacker, I really won't be able to use it.