A new product for the flytyer. I don't see why a streamer fisherman would not love this:
http://vimeo.com/69837827
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A new product for the flytyer. I don't see why a streamer fisherman would not love this:
http://vimeo.com/69837827
Kool - now, if I took a paper clip........
What about a loop of 30 lb. mono and a strand of lead wire against a needle with some superglue, tie on the fiber and remove the needle?
OK, so what is the product? The articulated shanks? The brush material? I'd might be sold, if the video explained exactly what, how and why, instead of jumpy effects and annoying music. I guess I'm turning into a grumpy old man.
The action of the "fly" was cool though.
That ain't no stink'n fly, lol.
No, that's a sweet streamer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Allan
Hap mentioned in another thread that those shanks do not hold up too well and are not to be trusted in his neck of the woods. I have mixed feelings about the pre-cut tails, but might try them one of these days...however, there are so many other patterns that do not require me to buy their moderately expensive product, it might be a while...might have to try to cut my own of these days before even that...
For those of you (like me) that are not part of the MTV generation ... http://flymenfishingcompany.org/prod...ed-fish-spine/Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayatwork
It's really easy to make a jig to make this sort of thing yourself. All you need is some dowel and nails. I keep looking at the new "Intruder Shanks" etc. that have come on the market. They are just a re invention of the Waddington Shank. Yes the first waddington shanks were made from paper clips.
Cheers,
A.
I am just curious where we draw the line between "lure making" and "fly tying"?
With a very broad marker pen that fades at the edges.
Cheers,
A.
Isn't a fly a lure? This is as much a fly as a Clouser Minnow, a Deceiver or a Matuka streamer.
There is no line.Quote:
Originally Posted by appalachian angler
As a 9 or 10 year old kid I started tying bucktail jigs. That led into dressing hooks for spinners which I also made. THAT led into tying flies. One of the very popular local trout spinner styles had various flies with a small treble hook trailer, like the commercial "Joe's Flies" spinners. I made and sold some of those. As soon as I started tying, I picked up my Dad's old fly rod and started fly fishing. All flies are lures. Many "lures" as we commonly define them (cast by the weight of the lure itself, not the weight of the line) have elements of fly tying in them especially if you make them yourself. In fact that distinction is far from perfect as well, because for decades small plugs and spinners were very commonly fished on fly tackle.
If you take a hunk of wood, carve it, paint it, and hang some hooks on it, it is pretty obvious you are not fly tying, but you are still taking separate materials and fashioning them into something with which to catch a fish.
Just like the multi jointed swimbait hard lures it imitates, it'll catch a lot of fishermen, not necessarily a lot of fish. Next thing you know the Ga. boys will pipe in about the tons of fish they catch on rubber worms and flukes thrown on a fly rod. Not to sound like a tweed coated salmon fisher, but this isn't what I got into fly fishing for, just to imitate a spin fisherman.
They're not flies. They're lures. :evil: