testing some materials

[jeffnles1]

I was playing around with some stuff last night just for a little fun. These are a few that I tied.

Mainly I was playing around with some holographic tinsel and some metalic threads and some floss.

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[DDRRedneck500]

that first fly except with lead or bead chain eyes has done well for me for crappie.

[jeffnles1]

that first fly except with lead or bead chain eyes has done well for me for crappie.

I have a wrap of lead wire around the hook shank to get it to sink a little faster.

I'm hoping these will do well on bluegill, bass and crappie. Heck, I may even try the little #18 in the tailwaters when the trout are not hitting on standard nymph patterns.

Thanks,
Jeff

[jeffnles1]

I tested them out tonight. The fly with the white maribou tail and silver holographic tinsel body with red metalic thread head was a hot ticket on bluegill and crappie tonight. I landed over a dozen bluegill before one snapped my 6X tippet. I didn't need that light of tippet but that was what was on my leader from a tailwater trout outing last weekend.

The white woolie with the flash in the tail landed a several more before it got too dark to see what I was doing.

I'm going to tie up some more of the "tinsel" flies in various hook sized from 8 to 12 this week and see how the larger size ones work on bass and larger crappie.

Thought you guys would like to know how they worked.

Jeff

[Greg H]

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