Please critique this fly...

[WarrenP]

I was just playing around with an idea I had and ended up with this fly. The hook is a Mustad 94831 in size 8 and where the eyes are there is a 7/64" or 2.8mm tungsten bead. I painted the eyes on with fabric paint using yellow and then black for the center and then put 3 coats of Sally Hanson over it. Hopefully, I will get a chance to see if the fish like it and how it will respond in the water. I need your professional opinion on what you think, good or bad, before I tie up any more. Thanks in advance...

[Mojo]

I was just playing around with an idea I had and ended up with this fly. The hook is a Mustad 94831 in size 8 and where the eyes are there is a 7/64" or 2.8mm tungsten bead. I painted the eyes on with fabric paint using yellow and then black for the center and then put 3 coats of Sally Hanson over it. Hopefully, I will get a chance to see if the fish like it and how it will respond in the water. I need your professional opinion on what you think, good or bad, before I tie up any more. Thanks in advance...

Mickey Finns work, this should too. Nice looking fly. Did you mainly tie it up for, trout, bass????????????
This could be a great forage imitation.

[WarrenP]

Mojo,

My main target to try first will be trout. Our rivers here have a lot of young fry in them right now and I wanted to make a small streamer but wanted to weight it also and that is why I put the tungsten bead in. The bead is tied in about 1/8" behind the eye similiar to a Clouser. I like Clousers for bass but I did not want this streamer to be very large nor heavy this made for a small profile fly and the tungsten allowed me to keep it all small. Hopefully, I will get to try it out tomorrow or Monday for sure.

[mcsteff]

I agree with Mojo. I like it alot. It should do well. Do you think it will ride upside down with the barbell; that will put the lightside up and the brown side down. That may or may not be important. The fishies will let you know. Thanks for the tie, Warren.

[WarrenP]

mcsteff,

"Do you think it will ride upside down with the barbell"

Since I used a tungsten bead instead of a barbell, I am hoping it will ride hook down as the picture shows. If it does not, then I will tie some up and reverse the colors. I will know more after I get it in the water.

Thanks for your input....

[flymaker2]

It is nicely made. However, I feel the red "gill" section is too wide and is tied too far back. Bigger eyeballs would attract even better. My 3 cents..

Nice pattern

[bugman]

that fly would work great here fer bass with 2 or 3 strands of crystal flash on top... it would probably ride upside down because of the barbell eyes, making it even better fer fishin close to bottom... i like it...

[ridgeliner]

I was just playing around with an idea I had and ended up with this fly. The hook is a Mustad 94831 in size 8 and where the eyes are there is a 7/64" or 2.8mm tungsten bead. I painted the eyes on with fabric paint using yellow and then black for the center and then put 3 coats of Sally Hanson over it. Hopefully, I will get a chance to see if the fish like it and how it will respond in the water. I need your professional opinion on what you think, good or bad, before I tie up any more. Thanks in advance...

It looks like it will catch fish. Tie up a couple more and give it a good workout. Let us khow how it does. You make it very clear that you used a bead with the eyes painted on it. I'm not sure why some people think that it has barbell eyes.

[crazy4oldcars]

My impressionable opinion is, it would catch fish. I like it. I think I'll try a few with olive as a top color as a bass fry. Looks real good.

Kirk

[WarrenP]

I really appreciate all the constructive reviews on this fly and I have made a couple more up and I tied one up with a narrower red band and larger eyes which were suggested by "flymaker2" and enclosed a picture of it. Once again, there is a tungsten bead incorporated into the head of the fly and the eyes are painted on the bead. It is not a barbell eye so the fly should not turn over and ride hook up. We will see after I get a chance to try it out on the river. My main goal was to create a smaller streamer that would come closer to matching the small fry which are in the rivers here at the present time plus I wanted it to go deeper faster and that is the purpose of the 2.8mm tungsten bead incorporated into the head of the fly. I am also hoping that the smaller size will cast better on my 4 weight. I do appreciate the suggestions from all you fly tyers.