crayfish fly

StumpHunter · Jan 21, 2014

Been working on a crayfish for awhile now, must of tied 15 or more before I got the fly to look like I wanted it to. :dodgy:
This one is tied on a size 10 x2 long nymph hook.
What are your thoughts on this one.

Kdog · Jan 21, 2014

That should work, but send me a couple and I'll gladly test them!

Seriously, how do they hang in the water? with the weight being above and below the hook, not sure it will be easy to work under water.

CrappieHappy · Jan 21, 2014

Nice job Ronnie!

StumpHunter · Jan 21, 2014

Kdog said:
That should work, but send me a couple and I'll gladly test them!

Seriously, how do they hang in the water? with the weight being above and below the hook, not sure it will be easy to work under water.

The front barbell is the only weight, the back eye is bead-chain like used on lights and have no real weight to them.

Thanks

StumpHunter · Jan 21, 2014

CrappieHappy said:
Nice job Ronnie!

Thanks CrappieHappy.

Ron Don · Jan 21, 2014

Wow that's cool! 2 thumbs up.

quivira kid · Jan 21, 2014

Yep, nice one Ronnie!

On the subject of crawdads, I saw this today..... a bit bigger than yours, but I think I'm gonna try and tie a few this size and also downsize.
http://www.frankenfly.com/crab-schlapp-em-shrimp-ben-treppa/

toadfrog · Jan 22, 2014

Bet ya get some on it . Just about the time the small craws start coming out in the spring . Do one in grey and sneak it over some rocks or sandy areas . Something will bust it .

StumpHunter · Jan 22, 2014

Thanks guys. I do plan to tie some in a few colors, I think these will work great around here as our craws don't get over 2 to 3''.

QK, that is a nice crawdad.

Pup · Jan 23, 2014

Great-looking pattern and tie SH.

Would work well in my area for river bass, no doubt.

Broke the hooks out last night.

Looked them over pretty well...

Have an 8-wt. Orvis rod and a Ryall reel that I believe will be the bees knees for river bass. Hope to get it together soon after tying to fill a small box.

Thanks for your inspiration.

StumpHunter · Jan 24, 2014

Thanks Pup. I hope you are able to get on the water and use the fly rod this year.

Tied three different colors of them to start off with to see how the fish like em. Stayed with the orange in the center on all of them.
Brown, black and olive. Was going to tie some gray but I don't have any squirrel zonker in gray.
This is how the fly should run on the bottom, well see.

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