Beadchain Worm

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Kfish

Discussion Starter · Mar 5, 2017

This has probably been done before but I am experimenting with a worm fly tied on a piece of bead chain. Kind of a pain in the ass to tie since no vise were involved.
About 3 in long with various dubbing tied in at every other junctions with 4x tippet mono and brush back. Octopus sized 6 in the back tied on the last junction with braid.
The fly will be tied on by the first bead junction. The whole thing is very flexible but not sure how wiggly it will be in the water. Will try it tomorrow and see.

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chrome/22

· #2 · Mar 5, 2017

That will hunt

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PhilR

· #3 · Mar 5, 2017

Looks good, but do you think that the chain is strong enough?

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mbowers

· #4 · Mar 5, 2017

Will break some teeth.

I really like it but
1) octopus hook needs to be attached with a loop through eye and over shank or a snell
2) corrosion. Maybe try on plastic bead chain?

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Nick Clayton

· #5 · Mar 5, 2017

Thats thinking outside the box. Very cool. Curious to hear how it works for ya

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Kfish

Discussion Starter · #6 · Mar 5, 2017

Hope it's strong enough...it's for SRC after all.
Yeah it's going to rust like hell, going to soak it in water after fishing.
I feel metal bead chain is necessary because it will need the mass to sink and wiggle.

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Kfish

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 5, 2017

Man I was in a hurry to finish it, no time for a cute little loop for the octopus

got to help get the kids to bed haha

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SilverFly

· #8 · Mar 5, 2017

Nick Clayton said:
Thats thinking outside the box. Very cool. Curious to hear how it works for ya

Ditto. Just a thought, but I wonder how it might fish if you attached the tippet a few beads back from the front. Might make it swim in a more balanced manner. Maybe even give it some undulating action?

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coastrider

· #9 · Mar 5, 2017

Wonder if a length of braided line with brass beads would work better as the could tie a loop in one end and pop an octopus hook on the other. Keep with the dubbing, looks great

PNWflyfishing

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Kfish

Discussion Starter · #10 · Mar 5, 2017

SilverFly said:
Ditto. Just a thought, but I wonder how it might fish if you attached the tippet a few beads back from the front. Might make it swim in a more balanced manner. Maybe even give it some undulating action?

Brilliant, going to try that!

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Mark Mercer

· #11 · Mar 5, 2017

Cool !!! I like the thinking behind this but might need to try some different things to get it dialed in. Let us know what you come up with in the end.

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Kfish

Discussion Starter · #12 · Mar 5, 2017

Fished it today a bit but it didn't get any attention from the rezzie coho like Nick Clayton did, swam pretty straight and didn't sink anywhere was fast as I thought.
Version 2.0, with a heavy bead in front and foam in the tail to hopefully give it a jigging swimming action. Yep, getting ugly now, the finese is gone haha

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wanative

· #13 · Mar 6, 2017

Kfish said:
Brilliant, going to try that!

Tie it in the middle ala wacky worm rig style the Bass guys use.
That rigging is killer for bass.

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Chucker

· #14 · Mar 6, 2017

I used to fish a worm fly for sea trout in Denmark back in the early 1990's. we used marabou spun between two strands of gsp, but it looked a lot like the thing you are tying. The best version had the marabou trimmed short, to match the look of a polychaete worm. Bead or split shot at the head, foam at the tail with the hook. Not a fast sinking fly!

It worked best moved very slowly, and did catch some good sea trout, but got far more flounders. I tried them here a few times and got nothing.

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