So I don't know if you have seen the "Belly Dancer" type flies that Idylwilde sells, but I think that the design is both novel and practical. The beads riding off the belly of the fly make it ride hook-point-up and makes some fish attracting noise to boot. So, borrowing heavily from this design, I decided to tie some of my own versions.
These are all on Mustad 80300BR size 2 hooks (not a bad hook but they need some sharpening)- I will probably use an 8089 in the future. The body is lazer dub in a dubbing loop, the tail is a zonker strip and the head is wool from Umpqua.
I just used Beadalon for the wire and medium sized metal beads from the hobby store. Some of these have a glass bead in the middle. Theres also some Umpqua schlappen in a few.
I should probably not have hung the beads down so much, I'll have to see how it swims.
Looking forward to trying these out for bass or trout- probably trout first since its winter and all.
You'll have to let us know how that works. Those beads look strange to me.
ReplyDeleteYa man I will. Ive used the idylwilde versions and they catch fish for sure. We'll see if mine compare.
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