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[pittendrigh]

Get a bag of Fritos Scoops.
Eat the whole thing. Beer will help to get it all down. I recommend a locally-brewed India Pale Ale like Hopzone from the Bozone brewery in Bozeman, MT.

Then save the bag. The inside of the bag has a brightly-reflective chrome-silver tinsel surface. Cut it up into strips with a swing arm paper cutter. Now you have a lifetime supply of tinsel--in any strip-width you might want.

[ScottP]

You think the scent of Fritos helps attract fish?

[whatfly]

An old but useful trick, indeed. British tiers have been using Doritos bags for chironomid aka "buzzer" patterns for many years.

[John Rhoades]

Thank you for sharing.

[quivira kid]

Bait dunker.

[AlanB]

An old but useful trick, indeed. British tiers have been using Doritos bags for chironomid aka "buzzer" patterns for many years.

That was for the specific orange colour on part of the bag. Of course when they found out about it they changed the colour!

Cheers,
C.

[pittendrigh]

You think the scent of Fritos helps attract fish?

That would be an added bonus. Truth is they give me a belly ache.
But now I'll never need to buy tinsel again.
:=))

[ScottP]

I tied some Lightning Bugs doing the same thing with the wrapper from a mint-flavored Three Musketeers bar, which was a greenish-silver color. The flies worked okay (probably because it's an inherently good pattern) but it wasn't really worth the effort to get usable lengths of the foil. The Frito bag's a lot bigger.


Regards,
Scott

[FishnDave]

My wife loves Fritos. Doesn't eat them often, but she loves them. Surprisingly, there are only 3 ingredients in Fritos....Whole Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt.
I wonder what the fish would like best? When I was a kid, we caught a couple nice catfish and took them home to eat. When we cleaned them, they each had a chunk of field corn (cob and all) in their stomachs. We'd had a heavy rain previously, and some corn plants had gotten washed into the river. Hard to picture how a catfish would shuck the ear to get at the corn cob.

[ScottP]

When I was a kid, we caught a couple nice catfish and took them home to eat. When we cleaned them, they each had a chunk of field corn (cob and all) in their stomachs. We'd had a heavy rain previously, and some corn plants had gotten washed into the river. Hard to picture how a catfish would shuck the ear to get at the corn cob.

Well, if it was a walking catfish it could have used it's hands.

Regards,
Scott