One of the things I done to help me my marabou patterns sink, without having to resort to added weight, is to remove the stems before tying the marabou on. I put the feather in a loop and spin it on, it gives it a full effect without a lot of bulk. I'll then add a collar feather to improve the silhouette. Additionally, I use a heavy wire hook and as small of a tippet as I can get away with.
Hope this helps. Tim <>< On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:52:48 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 04 January 2002 04:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke: >> Have you folks ever checked out the "extra" depth you get with a weighed >>fly in a wet fly swing? > >Well, there are several things that come into play in a fly that is sinking. > >First off, its weight. But I guess that's a little bonehead for this gang, >Then, there is the total resistance to sinking which is everything added to >the hook. The best sinking fly will be a bare hook of the heaviest metal that >you care to tie with. Anything that adds to that bare hook slows it down. Big >marabous, big bunny leaches, big patterns of cactus chenille, or anything >like these are tougher to sink if only for what they are made of. > >I was chatting with my local fly shop purveyor about my fishing methods and >lack of sucess, and he suggested that I work on tying heavier flies by using >heavier, bigger hooks. As my type 4 sink tip and my 4 foot leader are right, >but my flies are probably rising up off the bottom due to their size and >resistance. > >So I have shifted to tying only patterns on #1-3/0, and weighting the fly if >necessary to get the size and sink rate I want. You ought to see the wire >size on a Tiemco 7999 3/0. I have also been paring down my marabous so they >sink faster with less hackle. > >I have only been able to fish them for a short time on the Tolt last weekend, >but they sunk like rocks with thin marabou hackles, and tinsel bodies. It was >quite amazing to see. Heck and that was with no prewetting of the marabou. > >Rob > >-- >Rob Blomquist >Kirkland, WA > > Have you gotten your free email at fishing.com or flyfishing.com? I got mine, come get yours! Visit www.fishing.com or www.flyfishing.com to sign up!
