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Offline icemantwo

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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #90 on: Dec 27, 2010, 10:27 AM »
That's a beautiful fly RG.  Epoxy makes flies look so much more real.  I used to tie some crayfish patterns with epoxy but I don't like to spend the money on epoxy anymore because I do not fly fish much and most of my flies that aren't tied for 'gills or steelhead have never touched the water and I got so many hobbies to spend money on.
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #91 on: Dec 27, 2010, 11:15 AM »
awesome fly!!
can you bend the hook eye to a 90...then invert the fly so the hook rides up so i can fish it horizontal..
then send me a few? ;D
i know i don't ask for much...or at least often!
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #92 on: Dec 27, 2010, 12:27 PM »
Quote from: A- bomb on Dec 27, 2010, 11:15 AM
awesome fly!!
can you bend the hook eye to a 90...then invert the fly so the hook rides up so i can fish it horizontal..
then send me a few? ;D
i know i don't ask for much...or at least often!
I'm working on another idea for that ;D

We need to hook up at Sodus and compare notes.

RG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #93 on: Dec 27, 2010, 04:13 PM »
awesome looking fly, rg
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #94 on: Dec 27, 2010, 05:19 PM »
nice
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #95 on: Dec 27, 2010, 05:20 PM »


This is the bugger I'm working at. Any suggestions or patterns would be helpful. Gotta figure out a way to make it more plump. :unsure:
RG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #96 on: Dec 27, 2010, 05:23 PM »
yarn?
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #97 on: Dec 27, 2010, 05:30 PM »
Already wrapped under the swiss straw. I was thinking surgical rubber tubing, if I can find the right size.

Heck, the fish probably won't care anyway.
RG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #98 on: Dec 27, 2010, 05:49 PM »
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #99 on: Dec 27, 2010, 10:35 PM »
the top 1" of a zoom finess worm!
actually how big is that thing?
and what is it? we found a bunch of those in a creek and they were like 3 inches....NOW THATS A FLY!!

okay, i give ..where's sodus? and i guess i do ask alot of questions. ;D
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #100 on: Dec 28, 2010, 01:36 AM »
Sorry A-Bomb, my crusty old brain confused you with another member. I just realized you're in Indy.

That "thing" is what we commonly call an Oak Leaf Bug. It's the larval stage of the crane fly. It inhabits small feeder streams of  the Finger Lakes. They're found mixed in the old leaf matter that collects in the streams.

I've seen them up to 2" in length, the average is around 1 1/2".

RG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #101 on: Dec 28, 2010, 01:49 AM »
Got a fly tieing kit for christmas.  You know what I'm going to be doing for the next couple weeks.  I'll post some pictures when I finally get some presentable work.
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #102 on: Dec 28, 2010, 08:54 AM »
RG they make a small diameter tubing for tying flies.  It comes on a spool similar to thread.  It can be stretched to get a thinner diameter.  I have seen it a Gander.  Just a thought.
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #103 on: Dec 28, 2010, 03:45 PM »
I have another idea....came to me this morning while I was "working".

I'll give it a try tomorrow night maybe. Right now I'm enjoying the comfy chair, a movie and a beer after a long day at work ::)

RG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #104 on: Dec 28, 2010, 07:12 PM »
Here's a new pattern I'm expirementing with for ice gills.  It is wrapped with lead wire underneath and has a bead head so it sinks like a jig.  Any thoughts?

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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #105 on: Dec 28, 2010, 08:16 PM »
RG I looked at my material collection and I think the best choice for a base to that bug larva is and round kerosene lamp wick.  You can get it in about different thicknesses to match your bug diameter then color it  however you want.
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #106 on: Dec 29, 2010, 12:53 AM »
There's one I haven't thought of.

Iceman, you may want to tie down that lead, It tends to unravel.

RFG
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Re: home made ice flies
« Reply #107 on: Dec 29, 2010, 10:25 PM »
A few more for you guys.  I posted these in another thread, but figured I would add them here too.  Hope that's not against the rules and if it is, can a mod delete the other posting?






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