Thanx for representing the hot dog and pizza flies.It's nice to know I'm not the only one dreaming up this goofy shit but it would be nice to know who tied that taco fly.Perhaps Pro-Cure could come up with a Bloody Taco Sauce to put on it?
The first 2 are Jims, the rest are mine...Nellie Fly made with hair from a friends dog in the background of the shot, Penguin in Bondage is a nod to Frank Zappa, the Shrunken head is tied with my beard trimmings...Why? well we do a little New Years Eve fishing trip to a pay to play place we call Ludicrous Lake and pinhead pond...Pinhead is closed now and used as a rearing pond. We tie weird stuff...it adds to the challenge...One year Jim caught a nice trout on my Red Baron fly ...a little red biplane made of sheet foam...Jim skated it and a fish finally took it...Most of the time we freeze our arses off...In the last 5 years ish we have missed a fewor a couple annual outings...because of the at our age it's too damn cold...
DAMN.... i quit Facebook for good back in February because i wasted too much time on it and i didn’t like the obligations that went with it - i.e. wishing people i don’t know that well a happy birthday or posting on their 845th picture of their grandbaby and saying ‘awww how precious’....not to mention the political stuff but had i known you were there i would have wanted to be friends Jim!!!
Pretty sure there’s a catch and kill season about to open up in Texas, New Mexico, and California, and that taco fly is about to become the new wooly bugger!
Pretty sure there's a catch and kill season about to open up in Texas, New Mexico, and California, and that taco fly is about to become the new wooly bugger!
Don't be so sure it won't work. On my recent trip to Christmas Island, I came across some bonefish that had to be over 10 lbs. Of course they would not take a fly though I tried like hell. But, we were having lunch and a potato chip bag blue into the water by accident and the fish mobbed it. Too bad I didn't have a potato chip fly. True story. We were eating at what was considered a park and people had been feeding the fish regularly.
I saw the same thing at Lake 16. A cigar wrapper was thrown over board out of a boat. The fish attacked the wrapper until it sank. There are slobs all over the world. There was one there at the time. It was opening day so I guess that was expected.
Once upon a time giant rainbows and browns lived under the bridge that crossed the river in the place on the map called Metolius. The local store sold large bags of popcorn. In those days, there was no fish pellet vending machine, as there is now, so people fed the huge fish popcorn... which they dearly loved.
The browns and bows would fight each other to rise to take the popcorn from the surface. The fish pellet machine put an end to that.
But in those popcorn days, it was found that large bows and browns also lived under Allingham Bridge. Unlike the fish under the Metolius Bridge, which was closed to all fishing, the fish under the Allingham Bridge were fair game to catch and release.
These fish would also rise for popcorn. One clever fellow came up with a very realistic looking "popcorn fly".
He made it out of Styrofoam packing peanuts and it did indeed work... at least for awhile. Problem was, the "fly" wasn't really legal to use in a flyfishing only river, as is The Met, so the use of a popcorn fly was put to a fairly quick halt.
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