Thread: Show and Tell

Originally Posted by crappiecrazy

How about a pic of that "homemade fly" you caught that crappie on?

Here ya go Crappiecrazy.
The fish pictured was caught on the "fly" with the arrow pointing at it.
#4 jig hook dressed with rubber strand tail and "holographic" pipe cleaner. Not very sophisticated, but cheap and easy to make, not to mention effective. I caught 3 crappie and a bass on it in about 45 min.
The jigheads on the weighted ones are little drops of solder. Then painted.
I had 2 nice fish on one of the pink models that day, but I think I tied them on too small of a hook. (#8) Both came unbuttoned and I switched to the #4.
Gonna tie up some pink ones on larger hooks for my next fly outing.

Originally Posted by Miller

Wow I think you have just about everything covered:D. One question why not a 5wt? I always thought that it was the all around wt. Just wondering

I've been thinking about getting a 5-weight!

Originally Posted by ShellQuacker

Here ya go Crappiecrazy.
The fish pictured was caught on the "fly" with the arrow pointing at it.
#4 jig hook dressed with rubber strand tail and "holographic" pipe cleaner. Not very sophisticated, but cheap and easy to make, not to mention effective. I caught 3 crappie and a bass on it in about 45 min.
The jigheads on the weighted ones are little drops of solder. Then painted.
I had 2 nice fish on one of the pink models that day, but I think I tied them on too small of a hook. (#8) Both came unbuttoned and I switched to the #4.
Gonna tie up some pink ones on larger hooks for my next fly outing.

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ShellQuacker,
Thanks for the pic! I will check out the "holographic" pipe cleaner.