Tuesday, November 1, 2011

big ol jiggin bug



After watching Doug Stange on an episode of In-Fisherman use a type of swim bait similar to this design to catch various species of fish from freshwater to the salt, and a buddy of mine who chucks lures telling me about a 47 inch Musky he had recently landed with the same type of bait, I was instantly grinding my gears as to how I was going to mimic this design for fly fishing. This is what I came up with. This type of fly is very versatile, from Jigging off the bottom, ripping it back to keep the twister tails going, or simply swinging it through likely holding lies.

5 comments:

  1. I really like your unorthodox way of tying flies. This is another great example of a great ‘different’ looking fly which must have a fantastic action in the water! Nice work man!

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  2. Thank you! That's nice of ya to say. I just took it for a swim earlier today, and loved what I seen. I just placed an order for materials to tie some various sizes and colors I can see this one becoming a work horse pattern.

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  3. Hey, found your blog. Super nice fly, I haven't seen many patterns built like that before. Maybe you're on to something?

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  4. I'm glad ya found the blog, and happy to hear ya like the bug, thank you JGR.

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