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Reply With QuoteI've used these exclusively for 5+ years while speck fishing. They are great for quick changing jigs or or color swapping hooks at night. Quick and easy. Strong too. I caught an 8# bass on a minnow using 10# power pro and a fas-snap last year.
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Time for a set of magnifiers. They got cap brim models to the ones with the strap on them, they come out nice and far like a sunvisor on a cap. They flip up and down with 2 stengths. That's what I use. Makes life alot easier.
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I've used these exclusively for 5+ years while speck fishing. They are great for quick changing jigs or or color swapping hooks at night. Quick and easy. Strong too. I caught an 8# bass on a minnow using 10# power pro and a fas-snap last year.
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I use the no-knots one my spinning rigs, but not for flies.
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My thought is that it would be a help keeping the jig free floating like a loop knot would while Crappie fishing. Water just now warming enough to think about flappin flies for me.
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I don't use them but I understand not being able to tie on the smaller flies. When I tie flies smaller than a #18 or so, I tie in a 12" piece of tippet while at the fly tying bench (with my good light and magnifier) - then I just roll the tippet into a circle on itself and stick them in a fly wallet rather than the fly box. On the pond I can tie the tippet in using a surgeons knot and not have to try to see the eye of the tiny fly. I tie a gnat on a #22 and that is the ONLY way I can fish them.
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You use flies that small for bluegill?Originally Posted by Clint
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Absolutely - sometimes that is all they will take - Shellcrackers are famous for wanting tiny flies when they are not taking big scuds. Admittedly I have never taken a crappie on anything that small. A Crappie Candy tied on a 5XL #10 streamer hook is my go-to fly for crappie.
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Far West Kentucky
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Interesting.
For bait fishing, I sometimes go down to a #18 or #20, but #14 or #16 is more typical. I usually don't go below a #14 fly for gills, but I'll have to give the smaller ones a try.
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Take hemostats, cause those lil bitty things tend to get sucked down!
I see the fas-snaps as "something else that can go wrong"... if you can live without it, do so.
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Like Disco said "interesting"! I hope I can remember to try some #22 on finicky crackers this spring and summer. I think sometimes my memory is getting worse than my eyesight. Thanks for sharing the info!
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