Tylerflies
11-21-2007, 09:45 PM
I fished pass lake all day today. I have fished there before a couple of times and gotten my ass kicked, not even seeing a fish. But not today. I landed two medium sized rainbows in the evening and it feels awsome! The fishing was good by steelhead standards ( I fished all day with nothing but snaggs until 45 min before dark). Nobody said catching big fish was easy.
I hooked the fish I caught on a minnow pattern I cooked up last night, ( thank you gentlemen and gentlewomen who posted such fine advise about white minnows. ) I don't have a camera to post the fly but I will decribe it because I think it is a good match for the minnows on this lake, and I will fish it with confidence now.
Tail= natural mallard flank tip
body= 1part white angora goat, one part white crytal dub, nice and fuzzy.
gills=small partridge soft hackle
underwing= white arctic fox tail
over wing= three small flat wing hackles tied down laying flat over the body.
First, tie in the mallard tail, not too long. Then dub brush the body making sure that it is nice and fuzzy. leave 1/4 of the shank free. Tie in the small softy, real sparse. Then tie in the arctic fox tail, making sure to pull out the underbody, nice and sparse. Then tie in the hackles. use small ones from the base of the hackle that are only 1 and 1/2 inches long. real short. I used a fancy flat wing hackle, but any saddle will do ok. tie them in so they lay flat over the top of the fly. strip the fuzz off of the feather spline and tie this in, then pull the hackle forward so that some of the sctual hackle is under the thread. this will help it to lie flat. (I hope this makes sense) do this a total of three times. Then tie a large thread head. I didn't put eyes on but they would look really cool on the thread head.
I scooped up some minnows at the boat launch in the morning and studied them. They had white, irridecent flancks and a light gray back, about 1 to 1 and a half inches long. This fly imitates the minnow well, although i am only assuming that the fish I studied was the one the fish nail.
I am thinking that slowly retreiving a sculpin through the mud on the bottom would pick up a lunker brown if done in the right place. I tied some heavy weighted woolheads with the hook point up and tried this but to no avail. I didn't fish it right though but I have a fishy feeling about this technique.... Anybody try this on pass lake with success? I am also thinking that this technique would work with a bunny/mohair leech tied the same way. I'm gonna have to try this some time for the lunkers.
All in all, a beatiful day, fish to the hand, a new kick ass pontoon boat, well behaved dog equals and awsome day!
Have a great hodiday and please go fishing as much as possible this weekend, workaholics.
Tyler
I hooked the fish I caught on a minnow pattern I cooked up last night, ( thank you gentlemen and gentlewomen who posted such fine advise about white minnows. ) I don't have a camera to post the fly but I will decribe it because I think it is a good match for the minnows on this lake, and I will fish it with confidence now.
Tail= natural mallard flank tip
body= 1part white angora goat, one part white crytal dub, nice and fuzzy.
gills=small partridge soft hackle
underwing= white arctic fox tail
over wing= three small flat wing hackles tied down laying flat over the body.
First, tie in the mallard tail, not too long. Then dub brush the body making sure that it is nice and fuzzy. leave 1/4 of the shank free. Tie in the small softy, real sparse. Then tie in the arctic fox tail, making sure to pull out the underbody, nice and sparse. Then tie in the hackles. use small ones from the base of the hackle that are only 1 and 1/2 inches long. real short. I used a fancy flat wing hackle, but any saddle will do ok. tie them in so they lay flat over the top of the fly. strip the fuzz off of the feather spline and tie this in, then pull the hackle forward so that some of the sctual hackle is under the thread. this will help it to lie flat. (I hope this makes sense) do this a total of three times. Then tie a large thread head. I didn't put eyes on but they would look really cool on the thread head.
I scooped up some minnows at the boat launch in the morning and studied them. They had white, irridecent flancks and a light gray back, about 1 to 1 and a half inches long. This fly imitates the minnow well, although i am only assuming that the fish I studied was the one the fish nail.
I am thinking that slowly retreiving a sculpin through the mud on the bottom would pick up a lunker brown if done in the right place. I tied some heavy weighted woolheads with the hook point up and tried this but to no avail. I didn't fish it right though but I have a fishy feeling about this technique.... Anybody try this on pass lake with success? I am also thinking that this technique would work with a bunny/mohair leech tied the same way. I'm gonna have to try this some time for the lunkers.
All in all, a beatiful day, fish to the hand, a new kick ass pontoon boat, well behaved dog equals and awsome day!
Have a great hodiday and please go fishing as much as possible this weekend, workaholics.
Tyler