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Corn Kernel Fly.
The fish in the river I go to like corn. So to match the hatch how would I go about making a corn kernel fly? It needs to sink but not to deep. Yellow sponge, chamoise(sp) material? My wife's rabbit eats dried corn, would it be cheating to just drill a hole and glue it to a hook?
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oh yellow foam tied in at the band, pulled over and tied of and trimmed at the eye would prolly work, but I'd be hard pressed calling it a fly.
mgj
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Just soak a light yellow glo bug in Kern juice prior to fishing!!
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Jude
Small flies work best. Elephants eat peanuts.
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Whats Kern juice? I know its not much of a fly but if it catches fish hey it cant be that bad! Kinda like the San Juan worm.
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Some yellow fur dubbed on a dry fly hook would sink nice and slowly. It wouldn't look exactly right for corn though, a little furry. Yellow thread wrapped and wrapped and wrapped around the hook and then topped off with some coats of lacquer would possibly be more realistic, but there is no texture to keep them holding on.
Good luck.
Warmouth
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If your looking to match the kernel then i don't think it would matter much if you just actually fished a hunk of cob. Hey you might create a whole new area of tying though. I got enough flies to tie, let alone the #12 emergent sparkle kernel.
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I think I might just do that. It will be easier and look much more realistic. I wonder if they'll eat candy corn?*G*
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Yellow sponge and a little weight I have seen used for carp flies a few time in places were people feed corn to the carp.Is it a real fly? Heck who is to say now days. Does it match the hatch, I would say yes. Is a foam popper a fly? I myself have a hard time thinking of tube flies as a fly after years of using them on down riggers in Puget Sound but to each their own I say.
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Glue a small piece of a yellow plastic twister tail (like the crappie and bass guys use) to the hook. Take a razor and cut off a small corn looking segment from the body instead of the tail and that will slowly sink and mimic the "hatch". It is super simple as it requires no tieing at all.
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Bingo! I think we have a winner! Thats a really good idea. I'll give that a shot too!