Here is a fly that I am tying for the "Fish the Slop" Swap. It is an idea I had thought about for a while and finally got around to tying it last week. It is a weedless floater/diver with the foam body as the weedguard. I have fished it and found it is pretty weedless, but like a soft plastic topwater lure (which is where I really got the idea) you do have to set it really hard to get a good hookup. It dives a little on a straight retrieve, on a jerk strip it sends up a little rooster tail of water rather than a loud pop. I tied it to resemble a swimming frog. I don't have a name for it because I am not sure that it is a new pattern, that is, it is hard to come up with a fly that someone hasn't already come up with. In any case, the bass where I fish seem to like it. Any comments or criticisms would be welcome.






Glenn