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.
Can’t recall the last time I saw kernels of corn drifting along, but guess carp recognize them.
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!
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?
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
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??
I think that is what started this whole thing.
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…
ok… two disclaimers
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.
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.
Looks more like Candy Corn to me. 
“Catch 'em all ~ Put 'em back!”
Wow! thanks Diane, That’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. My favoriate stream here in lancaster county,Pa. has a wonderful corn kernal hatch this time of year just before dusk, it’s truly a sight to behold, corn kernals everywhere and every fish in the stream rising to them in a feeding frenzy.
I’ll surely be including this fly in my fly box
Beer…much more than just a breakfast drink.
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tea stick, every summer I go up to a convention in Lancaster, PA. I’ve seen what you are talking about. The odd thing about this hatch is the the larval stage of corn is actually a terrestrial. I’ve seen fields in the area with thousands and thousands of corn larvae per acre. Clearly Diane has seen this hatch too, as her fly is such a good match. Down here there are actually different color phases of them. White is fairly common, but there is a type that can be all sorts of colors; red, blue, mottled, even black. I’ve often wondered if the darker colors fish better at night…
This is me looking down my nose. Corn?!
When this hatch is on us “upstream and dry guys” use only the native and pure maize fly.
Corn fly - ewwww… excuse me. I feel like I need a shower.
Maybe not as a "maize"ing as the corn fly, but I’ve got a pretty kewl popcorn fly that takes bluegill on a super hero rod (or Snoopy, or Simpson)! Also made as a cheese popcorn fly for the adventurous fishers!
Trouts don’t live in ugly places
Well, I’m still pretty new at this but from what I can tell in my reading so far, that multi-colored maize hatch seems to happen in the northeast in the last week of October and the month of November. I’m thinking Steelies on the Lake Ontario tribs and a box full of maizies. Yeehaw!
Nice work Dianne. I received a corn fly pattern from a tyer awhile back in a swap.
Allll I can say is take that you blasted stocker trout…weeeeeee are onto your corn fly hatches !!!
After all this banter, you folks may have just legitimized the corn fly for all of fly fishing.
I’ll be waiting for a corn fly piece in the next edition of Grey’s Sporting Journal…
And just for the nitpickers and entomologists…
[url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Corn+fly:69c46]http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Corn+fly[/url:69c46]
I think we have a new swap concept here. Perhaps the “non-PC” swap or a trash fish swap or even a corn swap. Maybe when the ones I’m in now finish…