I dont know if anyone else does this but, the tags that come on shoes have a zip-tie type attaching function that looks like plastic bead-chain. I know that a lot of dry flys dont have “eyes” per se, but those little beads dont weigh anything and have made really great eyes even for really small streamer patterns. Just an idea.
Wow Quade, I hadn’t even thought of that. Good idea.
that might work better than burnt mono since many mono eyes can get big and seen ungainly on smaller dries.
That sounds like a really good hint there Quade, will keep my eye out for these.
Jeanne
as far as these eyes go is that it iw usually a good idea to purchase the shoes as Wal-Mart and the other stores that my wife and I shop at get a little irrittated when I go through there with a pair of scissors or my pocket knife and cut off those tags. Dont want to have to bail anyone out and cant afford to anyway, I dont have the right address. I love in a white house but its not quite the same.
youre going into stores and cutting off the tags on shoes and not buying them?? why??
a rather sarcastic person and in hindsight, I should have put j/k at the end of my previous post. Sorry for the confusion. :rolleyes:
Prolly for the same reason that I go through furniture stores and cut the tags off matresses… some of us like to live dangerously!!!
I have to admit that I do have a problem. I have a tag fetish. No no! I admit it. Somepeople like feet or shoes or other weird things, but I, I love plastic bead-chain shoe tags. :rolleyes:
Just a quick thought. This does sound like a good idea, but has any one tried it yet on dry flies. I am curious to see if this material would affect the flies movement, floatability and landing on the surface when being casted. Please do not think that I am not doubting the idea. I am just asking has anyone seen any issue or not.
i dont see the fish keying in on any kind of eyes on a dry fly regardless on how theyre made. i dont see why theyre even needed??
if’n you were trying for the realistic fly, instead of the fishable one, for artistic purposes??
I suppose but it would also work on small beetles and other ter…terrre… land loving bugs. In place of mono on small ones I mean.
I think Normand makes a good point – Do dries need eyes? Cool from a realism perspective but are they relevant to the trout?
but unfortunalty, we dont get a whole lotta trout down in these parts so we just have to make due with gill and LMB and Gar and other fish that aren’t quite as pretty or finicky. Seriously, some bugs that have mono eyes could use this instead. I am going to try it this week-end and see if it makes a difference. I just thought it was kind of a cool idea is all.
Quade,
I really do not care if dries need or do not need eyes. I do “thank you” for sharing this find! I will use this with my tying. If you come up with any more “finds”, please be sure and post them here. I, for sure, will be looking forward to them! Thank you…
I am glad that someone gets the idea. You are not the only one that has had something positive to say. Persoanlly, if someone wants to use this idea, great, if they dont thats cool too. I just wnated to share.
I didn’t see much that was negative.
negative was a bad choice of word. I guess it would have been better if I had been more specific and said for warm-water species instead of just in general. I agree that trout probably dont pay attention to “eyes” on a bug. Since I dont usually get to fish for trout here in my part of Texas, unless they get stocked and then they are hard as heck to catch, i have had to look at the bugs that we have and a good number of them have ball shaped eyes and since that is what bluegill eat primarily, i just thought that this was a good tip. If this tip does not, or will not help a persons fishing success, I dont expect them to use it or like it. If it does help someone, great. But, back to what I said earlier, negative was a bad choice of word. :neutral:
After an interesting week-end, I have learned some things that I didn’t know. While attempting to appropriate a sample of plastic bead-chain, I was, unbeknownst to me, observed by an imposter of a public official(read security) and was immediatly appraoched. After about ten minutes of conversation with said imposter, the conclusion was finally reached that I was using the plastic bead-chain for tying a series of flied to fish with. I was then informed that if I wanted to purchase the obligatory “Wizard of Oz” slippers that were the victim of my tying materials obsession, that I was more than welcome to them. At this point I was immediatly arrested, hand-cuffed and I said to the “public official”, “Im not sure I can reach my wallet with these hand-cuffes on.” After a five minute chastsizing for being a smart alek, the manager of the establishment where “the crime” took place spoke with me. He asked me for my side of the story and I proceeded to tell him exactley how it happened that I came to be appropriating plastic bead-chain for fly tying. Upon further conversing, I was led to believe that he as well was guilty of being a fisherman of the highest caliber and would understand my plight and addiction. My wife was then called to the front of the store, and as she approached she began to laugh because me and the “establishment manager” came walking out in front of everyone, both of us singing a bar of “Alices’ Resturaunt”. It turns out that Arlo Guthrie was right, they will think your really sick if you start singing that song.:roll: