Bass Fly

[tigfly]

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

[jcntheriver]

looks to me as if it were a peeled banana!

jcntheriver Jeff

[DShock]

Would it be easier to set the hook if you trimmed the foam down, so it was more limp? or use a limper foam?
Doug

[chris from canada]

Very interersting concept!

Tell us how it works out; hooking wise.

chris

[Joe Billingsley]

Tigfly,
Did you taper the ends of the foam down to a pretty narrow point to get the tie-in/head as small as it is? Has the foam torn there at all? It is a very interesting looking fly and I love the name jcntheriver gave it, the "Peeled Banana"!
Joe

[EPuffer]

Nice looking Fly!
I think the Pike would love it.
What size hook?

Eric