What are you tying today?

papaperch · Feb 17, 2014

Tried something a little radical for me today. Tying a fly on a standoff hook. To be used in drop shot fishing. Wool belly with lots of flash on side and wood duck flank feather for back and contrast. 3D eyes on thread head.

Played around a little with drop shotting last year and want to go full bore ahead on it this year. Going to use plastics , and these " stand off " flies instead of live bait like last year though. Will post pic tomorrow if it turns out decent.

QPassage · Feb 17, 2014

papaperch said:
Tried something a little radical for me today. Tying a fly on a standoff hook. To be used in drop shot fishing. Wool belly with lots of flash on side and wood duck flank feather for back and contrast. 3D eyes on thread head.

Played around a little with drop shotting last year and want to go full bore ahead on it this year. Going to use plastics , and these " stand off " flies instead of live bait like last year though. Will post pic tomorrow if it turns out decent.

Looking forward to seeing it.
Bucho I like the propeller jig, I may have to try one of those tonight.

plateboater · Feb 17, 2014

Nice looking jigs posted!

Jungleboy · Feb 17, 2014

Today I took a crack at pouring some spinner baits.I bought the mold along with my Jig mold but had not tried it till today . It is a bit tricky to use, I could ony pour one at a time and had quite a few that did not want to fill out properly . I eventually won the battle though and got a bunch poured . This is my first tie attempt and I understand why they use the rubber skirts now

. Regardless ,I like the deer hair and will continue on. I like the spinnerbaits for pike so hopefully these will work as well as the store bought ones. I used Bucktail and Mallard flank for the body along with a few strand of glow in the dark flash.

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Bucko · Feb 17, 2014

one thing I'd do is with the last blade, put out on a swivel and put it inside the loop on the end. should work though! chartreuse skirt with double hooks willowleafs is my go to.

Bucho · Feb 18, 2014

QPassage said:
Bucho I like the propeller jig, I may have to try one of those tonight.

Thanks! The upper part is tied out of 4 portions of fox. Came out a bit too bulky for my taste but it reminded my how nicely natural hair blends together after a little combing, even if you tie in multiple strungs with quite some space in between.

Haven´t fished it yet, though, so there´s a good chance the hair will foul the propeller too much. We`ll see.

@ papaperch: Interesting, would like to sse those! That would be my next project, DS baits from the tying bench! Been thinking of adding a mono loop to the hook shank to create a second eye, allowing me to use my abundance of jig hooks as stand off hooks, similar to that gamakatsu DS jig 90 hook.

Frankly, I don´t really believe that an unweighted DS fly would need any guidance at all, but customers would expect some USD Hook and stuff

just to mentally seperate them from the merchandise in the fly shop.

Bucho · Feb 18, 2014

Todáy`s first on the tying bench is "phloating eyez". Its my first attempt at squid ever so please don´t judge.

Kdog · Feb 18, 2014

My First tail spin jigs, please let me know what you think.

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Bucho · Feb 18, 2014

Looks very good to me! Especially the first one. I find it difficult to close the gap to the blade without interferring in its play. Using very soft material seems like a good way to do so. Have you tried it in the water yet?

Kdog · Feb 18, 2014

Bucho said:
Looks very good to me! Especially the first one. I find it difficult to close the gap to the blade without interferring in its play. Using very soft material seems like a good way to do so. Have you tried it in the water yet?

only in the aquarium. For some reason there is a white film on all the water around here that stops the jigs from sinking. Darndest thing I've ever seen.

QPassage · Feb 18, 2014

Looks good, my only concern would be getting short hits on the blade. I've even considered on the ones I have done, adding a treble to it. My personal opinion for what it is worth, I think the willow blades do a better job at attracting fish.

papaperch · Feb 18, 2014

Here is what I was talking about the other day. These standoff hooks are designed so that your bait or lure is always horizontal to the bottom. I did some plastics and live bait last year on these using the drop shot method. I use a variant of the drop shop shot but still same basic principal. On the right of the pic is how these are usually tied on your rig. The bent loop is tied with a palomar and the line is threaded thru the bottom leg. By lifting a sinker attached to the drop line your lure almost appears alive. I used while slow trolling and just still fishing. Bottom one is tied on # 4 top one is on a #6.

Got the idea of tying a jig pattern on the hook itself. These are just prototypes and not quite finished product. Will be able to tell more when my little aquarium thaws out . Fairly difficult as room for tying is very limited. Have to pay close attention to thread.

Denton Pond Jumper · Feb 18, 2014

papaperch said:
Here is what I was talking about the other day. These standoff hooks are designed so that your bait or lure is always horizontal to the bottom. I did some plastics and live bait last year on these using the drop shot method. I use a variant of the drop shop shot but still same basic principal. On the right of the pic is how these are usually tied on your rig. The bent loop is tied with a palomar and the line is threaded thru the bottom leg. By lifting a sinker attached to the drop line your lure almost appears alive. I used while slow trolling and just still fishing. Bottom one is tied on # 4 top one is on a #6.

Got the idea of tying a jig pattern on the hook itself. These are just prototypes and not quite finished product. Will be able to tell more when my little aquarium thaws out . Fairly difficult as room for tying is very limited. Have to pay close attention to thread.

Id say that hook looks like a very good idea for drop shooting.
Never seen one now I just may have to find some of them hooks.

Bucko · Feb 18, 2014

I do like those for drop shotting also, except in gin clear waters they can be a bit much to picky fish.

QPassage · Feb 18, 2014

I was brain storming again and tried this today.

It's kinda like jig tying, only a wee bit harder.

Bucho · Feb 19, 2014

@ Papaperch: Nice ties, thanks for the pics!

This is what I ment with using a mono loop for the extra eyehole, utilizing a jig hook as a stand-off hooK. I used a rather large 3/0 sickle and black Amnesia for demonstration. Its a quick tie actually. Rabbit, floating eyes, 2 strands of body material and you´re there.

Been also thinking about having the extra eye point downward. That would get you a quickly exchangable lure that accepts pike wire in the original eye and a weightet extra Dropshot-Weight leader in the other.

papaperch · Feb 20, 2014

Bucho- borrowed a little of your idea. Instead of nylon loop though I used a eye shank of a aberdeen hook I cut with wire cutters.

Used a long shank jig hook to give me more tying flexibility. Tied one up today and tied like I would use in drop shot rig.

Seems promising will post pics tomorrow.

Pup · Feb 20, 2014

Tied this this PM.

Super Tail Spinner For Bass

AtticaFish · Feb 20, 2014

Tied a couple odd balls yesterday.

A (sorta) sculpinish thing......

And a minnowish thing......

AtticaFish · Feb 20, 2014

These drop shot ties really have my interest.

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