Please forgive me if I repeat anything previously mentioned. I haven't been monitoring every post as as diligently as usual.
The twister tail or grub seem no more synthetic than an epoxy or foam body. Maybe it's that the rubber-tail creations are closely associated with leadhead jigs and crappies or bass than floating, weight-forwad lines and trout. I wonder how our beloved marabou and chennile escaped the same fate? Haven't those materials been used on jig heads forever and caught untold numbers of fish that way? Is a wolly bugger less of a fly? Is it that marabou is natural and rubber isn't? At what stage of treatment does material become synthetic? Seen many hot-pink birds lately (outside select clubs in South Beach)?
IMHO, throw whatever you want using whatever rod/line combo you want and call it whatever you want. If you enjoy it and it fools an occasional fish, does anything else really matter?
Kev
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [VFB] Round 2: Your oppinion......Is this a fly???? Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 21:23:17 EST
Both of the "flies" you have posted to me are lures. The fact that it
is tied on a fly hook and cast with a fly rod does not make it a fly.
To me what makes it a fly is that no part of it was molded, carved, or
turned on a lathe. These, to me, are fly rod lures. They include poppers,
plugs, spoons, and twister tailed mutations.
Just my ramblings,
Del
Delbert (Del) Roberts
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Belton, SC
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