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

[dudley]

I like the looks of that !
I'm gonna tie some up today
Maybe a 'bendback' style hook will help for a better hook-up

[Big Bad Wulff]

I'm glad to see you understand the importance of viewing it from below..........

[wayneb]

Interesting fly!

I wonder if a wide gap hook might work better?

Also, how stiff is the foam with the current width as used? Can fish easily compress the foam to expose the hook point in the fishe's mouth?

Wayneb

[DDRRedneck500]

id say that fly is 100% unique and genius. im definitely gonna try those out.