Bohemian Chenille Flies

[Bear742]

I am a believer that "soft plastics" have revolutionized Bass fishing. I also believe that flies that imitate soft plactics properly, have great potential. Right now I am working with Bohemian chenille to tie some "soft plastic" imitators.



Row 1: The long worm is 5" long.
Row 2: Adding a foam tab gives some action and floats the grub's tail up.
Row 3: Hula Grub and Tube?
Row 4: Furled Grubs. Furling slightly increases bulk and stiffens the worm.
Row 5: 6" diving slug. The bulky tail is a braid of three pieces of chenille. The eva foam diving head is an interesting alternative to spinning a Dahlberg head.


What's in your fly wallet?

[Greg Hunsicker]

Bear

AWSOME FLIES!!! I have been playing around with the same kind og thing trying to immitate bass lures. Post some pictures of your catches in the future.

Greg

[Rick Z]

You should do some of those as the fly of the week.

Especially the middle two intrigue me.

Rick

[flyandtie]

interesting

[billknepp]

I've just aquired a couple spools of a chenille rope type material, It's made up of 12 strands of the finest chenille I've ever seen.. I think it would be well suited to makeing these type flies...There is also a second size of this ribbon type chenille that is about an inch wide I'm going to grab a spool of that too. And hope it is made useing a heavier, Hopefully (Medium) chenille...My Daughter is useing some of it to weave herself a belt..shame the only color they are trying to give away is black...Thanks for the ideas as to what I might be able to use the stuff for...as I was going to cut it into 1 yard hanks and unravel it to get 12 yards of baby bugger body material per hank...72 hanks per spool would surely be more than a lifetimes supply!

[Bear742]

I added some notes in red. I am sorry that I did not include anything to give a sense of scale in the picture.

Rick,

What is involved in doing a fly of the week?

[rrhyne56]

Bear

For a FOTW just email it to LadyFisher at [email:8a244]publisher@flyanglersonline.com[/email:8a244]

Say, which of those have you had best success with?

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[Rick Z]

You take pictures of each step of tying the fly with the directions for what you are doing.
When ytou have them in order you email to to publisher@flyanglersonline.com

Look a t a couple of the previous ones and it gives you a good idea.

Would you buy that you should send samples for some of us to try?

Rick

[Bear742]

Rick,

Once one has the material, tying these flies is like tying woolly worms without the palmered hackle. They're so easy that I am not sure if there is enough there for fly of the week. As for samples, I am sure you could make better ones if you had the material. Check for a PM from me.

Bill,

Check for a PM from me.


Robin,

The 5" worm has bee the best so far.



Mike