Snakeheads article

[namfos]

Latest issue of VA Outdoors has an article about NoVa snakeheads: http://bit.ly/OW6oEC

[HeaveToo]

Interesting, but the link isn't working.  Can you post a better link please?

[Paul Kalajainen]

The link worked for me, the article is on page 9.

[HeaveToo]

Okay, I was wrong.  It is an issue with my Firefox browser.  It opened up in Explorer.

Good article. 

Does anyone know of a fly that is like a scum frog?  It would be cool to tie something that would fall with the hooks up so it could slide over the weeds like a scum frong.

[Dallen Hall]

Thanks for sharing that. Nice web mag with a few very nice articles in it.

Sidemadder

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:10 AM, namfos <mark....@gmail.com> wrote:

Latest issue of VA Outdoors has an article about NoVa snakeheads: http://bit.ly/OW6oEC

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[Miles]

I'm sure there are plenty of patterns that work like a scum frog, but part of the fun of flytying is coming up with a specific pattern to solve a specific problem. I've been working on one that I call the Fraschpunk -- Germanish for Punk Frog. I'll try to post a pic of it later, but basically I take a sz. 2 wide-gape stinger hook and bend it about two-thirds of the way down, so that the point is parallel to the hook shank but offset by a half inch (on a normal stinger the plane of the hook point intersects the plane of the shank). I tie some green or yellow chenille around the bent part of the shank and add multi-strand knotted rubber legs. On the straight (front) part of the shank, I spin a deer hair frog slider pattern upside down, with some extra batches of yellow deer hair on top. When I trim the head, I leave the extra yellow hairs a little long -- like a mohawk, thus 'punk' -- so they act as a weed guard. With the chenille and the legs pulling the hook to ride upside down, and the mohawk weed guard, the thing is pretty bombproof. The bad news is that I have yet to get a strike on it, but I've only fished it a couple times.

[namfos]

To all who tie their own, esp. Miles, you might want to take a look at this hook, http://bit.ly/HgWE23, the Gamakatsu G584LS Jobee Pro Worm Hook.  I've tied a couple of deer hair floaters on this and it reliably rides hook point up.  I've tied a few streamers on it too that I'll be testing out early tomorrow on the upper Potomac.

One very important thing about tying on this one, esp. when packing deer hair:  it's VERY, VERY SHARP.  I stick myself at least once every fly I tie.  ;-)