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Lightning Bugs
Right around dusk, the lightning bugs come out in full force and since the stone creek pools are full of lunkers and relatively still, the water is like a sheet of glass. Those little buggers drive the trout crazy!!!! I couldn't believe how furious those fish get! Does anyone know anything that comes close to replicating a lightning bug?
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It's hard to cast even a AAAA battery. You could try replacing your fly line with an extra long 12v copper wire hooked up to a set of batterys in a fanny pack. A small amber bulb on the butt end of an EHC might do the trick.
Grin :-)
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Snow on the roof but with fire still in the hearth
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Harrison Steeves has a lightening bug pattern that uses Krenick fiber for the glowing abodomen segment. Do a search on him on google, you a re likely to find a pattern
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If you mean as in a fly pattern then I would tie a thin foam body beetle with a yellow thread or antron/chenile section on the abdomen. If you meant a real insect thats close to a lightning bug then I'm not quite sure.
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I've never tied or fished 'em but it seems to me that some kind of glow in the dark material is in order here. You know , when you put a flashlight on it , it glows for awhile .
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Life is like a fly swap...You never know what your going to get.
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Steeve's Firefly, when tied with the "pattern correct" abdominal material, glows very nicely after a few seconds underneath those little UV pencil lights that you can buy to cure Loon's Knot Sense epoxy. Works very well....
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I use a lightning bug fly that is a simple foam beetle. Just add a drop of glow in the dark paint to the butt end of the beetle. Not quite the same glow, but fish still love it. I used it with good success on Fishing Creek here in PA.
You can get the paint at almost any craft store. I think it runs 2 or 3 bucks a bottle.
Don
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I've never seen a fish take a firefly and have always been told that they're poisonous. I guess that's just an old wive's tale?
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Dear Letort Run,
Just catch a couple of live ones and mash them on a regular old crowe beetle.
Eventually the glow wears off and you have to reapply.
Regards,
Tim Murphy
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Just say my first firefly this weekend in Mindon NE. We don't have them in this part of Wyo. They are preety neat, the wife and I spent about an hour watching them.
The granddaughter is trying to walk on her own, my back is still sore from the one or two finger walks.
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