Aero-Drifters

[Bucho]

Hi everybody!

Bored from work, surfing the internet for fishing stuff, a guy I know came across these floating little somethings:
http://www.hawkenfishing.com/category-s/1837.htm

I´m interested in everything that is tyed for the spin fishing rod. Has anyone fished these things? I´m very fond of booby flies, and this seems to be a booby tube fly? Would love to have a look at the inside. Considering the price of hand tyed tube flies over here, I´m a bit irritated by the low price. :huh:

It sure looks like something that could catch a trout or two on a cold, slow winter day.

 

[Lost Pole]

Those are waaaaay nifty.
I tied an aero style tail for a jig a bit back for kicks.

I did fish it and it did catch sacs, but so did every other jig at the time.

I remember Heath, I think, tied up something really cool with that technique a while back too. Maybe he'll chime in.

Glad you were surfing cuz. Now I gots me a new bookmark! Thx

 

[AtticaFish]

Not really sure what those are made of, but they do appear to be tube flies. Can see the tubes coming out the back of the float on a cuople of them.

I bookmarked it as well. Some cool looking patterns there.

....Glad you were surfing cuz. Now I gots me a new bookmark! Thx....

These little guys would make a killer hellgramite pattern.... was just talking about these in another recent thread. Did not tie these, pulled it from the Hawken's website........

 

[Fatman]

Lost nice tie, have tied the twisted tails and bodies. Never tried the aero

 

[Bucho]

I´ve twisted only braids, chenille and frayed yarn so far. How do they get the hackle into play? is there a manual somewehere? or at least a search word I can look up?

 

[Ron Don]

Those do look pretty sweet!

 

[Shoemoo]

People use Aero Drifters here in the Pacific Northwest to drift fish for salmon and steelhead in rivers. They're in just about every tackle store around here, so I've had the opportunity to examine them in person.

They're not really tubes. The head is a painted styrofoam ball called a Lil' Corky. Corkies have a hole drilled through them where the line goes, and something about the manufacturing process sometimes leaves paint projecting off the holes. They're manufactured by another local company called Yakima Bait, but Hawken buys them in bulk and alters them. I believe Hawken drills a second hole partially through and glues the yarn and chenille tail into it. The tail part might be tied on some sort of post like a toothpick, but it's been awhile since I looked at one up close.

Here's a pic of how a Corky is usually rigged. An Aero Drifter would be rigged the same way, except without the yarn tied to the hook.

I have quite a few Corkies because they also make awesome floats to get your bait up off the bottom. Corkies come in about a bajillion different size and color combinations. When I'm fishing on the bottom with worms on a slip sinker, I usually have a Corky on.

 

[Fatman]

Crappiehappy started posting the ones he did here on the board and gave us this link. for bigger jigs just use longer strands of chenille. You'll mess up a few till you get used to them but they sure make nice jigs!!
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[Bucho]

Thanks a lot for all the info! Until now I only furled longer, thinner stuff by using a ball-bearing dubbing twister so I could´nt imagine how to do that with a feather.

Might give those corkies a shot, too. Haven´t been bait fishing for years and there is a nice migration of browns together with stocked rainbows here in the canal. Most guys use rather complicated and heavy anchored bobber rigs to keep their bait in place, but I find the sinker&Corky rig simplier :icon14:

 

[StumpHunter]

Those are all good looking jigs.