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A buddy of mine tied this pattern up last year, shared a few with me, and WOW. The bluegills in the area we were fishing flat tore em up! #10 scud hook, pheasant tail ribbed with copper wire, chartreuse rubber legs (spinnerbait skirt) and chartreuse ice dub. Buggy and also bright. Hope ya like em....

Zac

Nice pattern, do the rubber legs help float it at all?? or do you get a good sink rate

The 6-8 wraps of lead underneath make it sink... we fish them under indicators. Last year we set them 3 feet or so below an indicator, and the fish were hitting them on the drop. It was pretty cool!

That's a great looking fly. Going to tie a few of those for the bream box,. Thanks for posting it.

nice work Zac...

Man, those look like real bugs. Nice work!

Tied a few different colors of those flies on a #10 x2 long scud hook and going to try them on the shellcracker. I used 10 wraps of lead on each and that should give em a good fall rate. I think they will be a fly I keep all the time in the fly box.

Stump, let me know how they work for you. I am thinking UV brown ice dub and fluor. pink

Those are some awesome looking flies!!!!

Zac

Sounds like a great color combo!! Gonna have to find my scud hooks though!!

quivira kid said:

Stump, let me know how they work for you. I am thinking UV brown ice dub and fluor. pink

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Thinking the same colors. I went with a copper/brown and a black collar. Tied two with chart/olive but didn't get enough dubbing as I wanted to have. I'll let you know how these colors work asap.

Lookin good Stump!!! I see what you mean about the dubbing. Try using a piece of Velcro stuck to a popsicle stick and you might be able to puff it out some.

Fatman said:

Lookin good Stump!!! I see what you mean about the dubbing. Try using a piece of Velcro stuck to a popsicle stick and you might be able to puff it out some.

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Fatman I had the dubbing amount right but I thought I had grabbed the 70 dem thread but had the 210 so when I wrapped the dubbing the thread coved the dub. LOL not enough to brush out..

LOL been there done that!!!!!!! I keep my jig tying thread in a small box with the feathers and chenille - the fly tying threads stay in my tying box.

Lookin good! My buddy's dad met me out at the lake this evening for an hour or two of fishing. We ended up with 13 or 14 bluegills and two crappie! All caught on a #10 squirrel and kip Clouser minnow...... I will post pics of that one soon. Quickly became a staple in my box! Chartreuse squirrel tail over white kip.

That's a nice catch. I have not tied with those squirrel zonkers I got but plan on tying with them today. Look forward to seeing your Clouser Minnow. We had a lot of rain here over the late two days (we needed it) and the waters have turned to mud where I bream fish but still hope to try somewhere tomorrow. Been catching some good fish on the poppers and a top water bug. Have not used many wet flies for bream so got to learn how to fish em on the flyrod.

I have my 210 threads on my left thread rack and the 70 & 140 on the right side rack. Sometimes I put the wrong thread in the wrong rack but most of the time I'll catch the mistake before I use the wrong thread,,,,,most time!!!

Nice flies Ronnie. The water is covered in mayflies over here right now. Those flies look a lot like a mayfly.

Once it gets hot, I like to fish nymphs about a foot and a half under an indicator. Either just let them drift in the waves or slooooow strip em. That's what I do anyways. Streamers generally get slow-stripped for gills.

quivira kid said:

Once it gets hot, I like to fish nymphs about a foot and a half under an indicator. Either just let them drift in the waves or slooooow strip em. That's what I do anyways. Streamers generally get slow-stripped for gills.

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Thanks Zac for the info.

Sounds like a great time!!!!!