Weedless topwater flies

[jkilroy]

Anyone use any weedless topwater flies for LMB that have the hooks facing up? If so any chance of posting them?

[wayneb]

Hi Jkilroy;

White43 talked about tying a stealth bomber with hook point up in the "Favorite Bass Flies"
thread.

Perhaps we can get him to describe how he did it. Everytime I tie a floating pattern hook point up, my fly rides hook point down/upside down.

Wayneb

[jkilroy]

I may try to tie a popper with a hook flipped upsidedown and see if it works. That would be killer for lilly pads, if I could get it to work.

[dudley]

I like a Dalberg Diver tied bendback style
I think I first saw it in an old Warmwater Fly Fishing magazine
Works great, you can strip it right through the salad

[bonefishwhisperer]

I use EP flys that are weedless...you have to rebend the hooks but it works very well for hiding the hook inside the fly itself...it works pretty good in the pads and in heavy grass

[fishbum]

The old Mississippi Whisker Bug is tied with the hool up and protected by the deer hair wing. Works great! That fly come about around the turn of the 20th century.