I am tying some bendbacks for a bass fishing trip. This is a size 1. Please let me know if I am on the right track here.
-wayne
nice tie. a little flash in the middle wouldn’t hurt!
I tied two that look like this, then decided to add flash in the middle. I did not take a pic of that one as the head was still wet. All the rest will have flash in the middle. After I posted, I filled the sink with water and threw it in to make sure it would orient itself right-side up and it did. I was worried I did not put enough bend in the shank, but it seems I did.
-wayne
Bend over, where is the girl in the picture?
oops, sorry, forgot myself.
Ehem bass flies, are the usually this way?
Hard to say, but I think bend the hook more so I’d have the middle of the white (lower) bucktail even with the point of the hook. This way you will have certainly have the point up so it won’t snag. As it is now I’m not sure that the hook will float upside down.
Try it next time you take a bath to make sure it floats as you want. Just be careful not to hook your rubber duckie 
jed
I put it in the sink and it oriented itself the right way . . .
i be worried what the fly action is when its retrieved not the plop and let it drop.
I may take it down to the local lake and test it out. . .
Or you could put some lead on top of the shank.
Or you could put chain eyes on top of the shank instead of the head you have there, you know like the Nobbler, but that of course would not be the same fly, a variation.
What about something red in the wing, I don’t know what are the “colours for bass”, but it’s a bit pale, but of course if you fish on it like that …
Just my 2 aurar’s (cent’s for you guies).
Sorry for the joke earlier, I often have to explain my jokes, well I won’t do it this time, just won’t.
Wayne,
The fly will fish with the hook point ‘up’ as long as you have more weight/mass above the hook shank than below it (backwards to a ‘normal’ hook point down tie)…so, when you bend your hooks, as long as more of the shank and bend are above the eye, the hook should ride as you want it to.
(It was realy hard for me to write this correctly, as I try to tie almost all of my flies-except dries-so that the hook point is up, and I had to write it ‘backwards’ to what is normal for me…)
That fly should catch bass anyplace they swim…
Buddy
I agree with Buddy. It doesn’t take too much of a bend to get it to flip upside down and ride point up. Especially when you have buoyant material such as bucktail above the “center of gravity” such as you do. The more bend you put in the hook, the less the pull on the line is in the direction of the hook point. This can comprimise the hook set.
Nice Tie!
Keith
I am not a experienced fly fisherman (however been fishing for bass my entire life of almost 60 years), but I would think about taking a red marker pen and putting a slice like gills behind the eye.
Just a thing to try.
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