The fish in the river I go to like corn. So to match the hatch how would I go about making a corn kernel fly? It needs to sink but not to deep. Yellow sponge, chamoise(sp) material? My wife’s rabbit eats dried corn, would it be cheating to just drill a hole and glue it to a hook?
oh yellow foam tied in at the band, pulled over and tied of and trimmed at the eye would prolly work, but I’d be hard pressed calling it a fly.
mgj
Just soak a light yellow glo bug in Kern juice prior to fishing!!
Jude
Small flies work best. Elephants eat peanuts.
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Whats Kern juice? I know its not much of a fly but if it catches fish hey it cant be that bad! Kinda like the San Juan worm.
Some yellow fur dubbed on a dry fly hook would sink nice and slowly. It wouldn’t look exactly right for corn though, a little furry. Yellow thread wrapped and wrapped and wrapped around the hook and then topped off with some coats of lacquer would possibly be more realistic, but there is no texture to keep them holding on.
Good luck.
Warmouth
If your looking to match the kernel then i don’t think it would matter much if you just actually fished a hunk of cob. Hey you might create a whole new area of tying though. I got enough flies to tie, let alone the #12 emergent sparkle kernel.
I think I might just do that. It will be easier and look much more realistic. I wonder if they’ll eat candy corn?G
Yellow sponge and a little weight I have seen used for carp flies a few time in places were people feed corn to the carp.Is it a real fly? Heck who is to say now days. Does it match the hatch, I would say yes. Is a foam popper a fly? I myself have a hard time thinking of tube flies as a fly after years of using them on down riggers in Puget Sound but to each their own I say.
Glue a small piece of a yellow plastic twister tail (like the crappie and bass guys use) to the hook. Take a razor and cut off a small corn looking segment from the body instead of the tail and that will slowly sink and mimic the “hatch”. It is super simple as it requires no tieing at all.
Bingo! I think we have a winner! Thats a really good idea. I’ll give that a shot too!
McFly Foam probably comes in a corn color.
“Kinda like the San Juan worm.”
Sorry, but a SJ Worm replicates an actual aquatic insect. Do the research.
Don’t know what time of year the corn hatch is, though.
Here is a link to a pattern though, used for carp.
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Yeah but the SJW is used like an earthworm too, like bait casters use just like the corn. Thats why I used it as a referance. Thank you for the link.
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I have a buddy who covered a few wraps of no-lead with fat yellow chenille and flattened that a bit with a pliers. Then, to feel better about himself he added some grizzly feathers to make it look more like a streamer.
Worked fine.
A few weeks ago I cut a chunk off a small rubber worm about the size of a trout food pellet and put it on a small bait hook.
Caught a trout as soon as it hit the water!
I felt so guilty using “bait” I took it off right away.
Hey fly angler. Your friends fly sounds a lot like ones I got in a box of Steelhead flies from the 70’s I got from a guy at work. He got them when his dad retired back in 75 and sold out his sporting good store down in OR. They are a size 6 and 8 2x hooks with lead around the hook and yellow chenille around that and then some had black bear hair wings and others had hackle tip wings over the top with calf tail lower wings. These were in with lots of Jim Teeny flies and lots of green butt skunks in the same box. Only tried them once a few years back on the Hoh and have not taken them out of the box since.
Now that you wrote about your freinds fly and I think about it. I guess they do kind of look like corn.
I flyfish for carp on a canal where people feed the ducks cracked corn. While the ducks scurry about making a lot of noise picking up the odd bits of corn, most of the corn sinks through the meniscus and down to the bottom of the canal. There it is available for the carp , who feed on it regularly and with gusto.
One of the flys that I and my son tie is a corn fly. It is made from yellow/gold chenille; or use the glo-bug egg ( polypropelene) yarn in the color “Oregon cheese” . It is easy to adjust the rate of descent : either make the tie larger ( to slow the descent), or use a dry fly hook instead of a nymph hook ( less weight= slower descent). Try it - it works !!
Dadflyer