Peace Brokering: The Corn Fly

[Diane]

ok, this is for Anthony and everyone else who is tempted by / irritated by the use of corn in fly fishing. Even you Schmeetists!!!

Check this out: [url=http://www.jeffthedesigner.com/cornfly/:ea003]Corn Fly[/url:ea003]

[This message has been edited by Diane (edited 12 May 2006).]

Thanks for posting that. Looks good. Never got a chance to use one on carp but I have caught tons of hathery trout with them.

[J Castwell]

Can't recall the last time I saw kernels of corn drifting along, but guess carp recognize them.

[Diane]

Old corn fly fishers even paid attention to hatches.. the literature tells us so..

"Jim cracked corn I don't care
Jim cracked corn I don't care
Jim cracked corn I don't care
He tell me watch de blue tail fly"

Personally, sounds to me like Jim was advising his friend to fish some damsels while he was preparing for the highly productive corn fly hatch. That sly Jim!

[backbeach]

Yikes! Wouldnt a coupla wraps of yellow and one wrap of white chenille suffice? Looks like someone has alot of time on their hands... Do these fish have genius IQ s or what?

[Buddy Sanders]

WOW!

That's a lot of work for a corn fly!

Any particular reason the hook isn't actually 'in' the corn kernal?

Just curious.

Buddy

[mickporter]

Why not just fish an actual kernal of corn on a hair rig??? I am not sure why an artificial is necessary when corn is so easy to fish anyway??

[J Castwell]

I think that is what started this whole thing.

[billknepp]

How wrong is that!?....LOL...Pretty darn ingeniousal though!

I agree on not ever seeing corn drift.....Errr ahh not that I've ever tossed a handful in the waters mind you ....ok long time ago.....

[Diane]

ok.. two disclaimers
1. I started the thread because people were getting all worked up about a certain forum member's use of actual corn on the end of his fly line.

2. That link is to someone else's hard work, not mine. Personally, if I were to tie a fly to look like corn, I'd probably take a piece of corn and dry it out, dremel a hole in it, put it directly onto a hook with superglue, enamel it, and then rub some sort of corn-smelling something on it as I cast it toward a likely group of carp, using my 00 wt banty with a 20# test tippet. This, of course, after chumming with some canned Green Giant niblets.