Hook: 12-16 Dry Fly hook
Thread: Black Uni 6/0
Body: 2 Black 8/0 Seed Beads (or resized based on hook)
Butt: 1 Red 8/0 Seed Bead (or resized based on hook)
Legs: 1 Grizzly Hackle, single or double wrap (preference)
I use dry fly hooks since they are usually thinner, and the glass seed beads don't have a large opening. Experiment with the length and size of the beads to match the area you are fishing. Slide each of the beads on first. Start the thread behind the butt segment. Build up just enough to keep the bead on. Loop between the red and middle black bead. Again, build up just enough to keep the bead in place. In between the 2 black beads, tie in and wrap the hackle for the legs. At the eye, build up and tie off. I add a drop of glue in between each bead, including the back and at the eye just to stabilize it. Since it's going to sink, doesn't matter much.
G'day there Ed:
Would you mind mailing me the pattern and any other info that may be important please.
Many thanks,
Reuven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Roden
Sent: Sunday, 25 December 2005 1:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [VFB] Weighted Dry Flies
You can weight them or design them differently - I have a glass bead ant that I use to fish subsurface. One of the articles I read commented that you don't really see ants stay on top of the water long - they struggle and start to sink. This pattern is great on Paint Creek here by my house - I'll fish it as a dropper with an adams as my indicator.
On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was wondering if I'm the only one that does this. I weight some "Dry Flies" with lead wire to make them sink...There is a few in particular, and I have had real good luck with it... Foam Beetles, Foam Spiders (or any bluegill foam fly with rubber legs).. Ants, and letort hoppers..
At least THIS time of the year because I only fish for bluegill (and bass( because there are NO trout here. The fish are not feeding on top, even in the late evening, like they do in the Spring/Summer.. So, I started weighting these flies to "get the flies to where the fish are". Anybody else do this??? Any others you weight that I didn't mention and you have good luck with. That weighted Letort Hopper, tied in a dark brown (almost black) with rubber segmented legs is great, because around here, one of the best fishing for brim is done with hook, sinker, bobber, and live crickets.. Well, by tying those in dark color to look like a cricket, and "twitching" it through the water to make it look alive..... It is a great fly....Or, am I just a nutcase of the group??? Allan Fish you do NOT get to answer that LOL... All the DVD's, Tapes I have seen say to "experiment"... so I do. All you other "dry fly weighters" come out of the closet and join Me LOL... Chuck
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Ed Roden
flyfished at gmail dot com
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flyfished at questquality dot com
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Ed Roden
flyfished at gmail dot com
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flyfished at questquality dot com
