Beth's catfish and first NSH of the 2015 season

[TurbineBlade]

Hey -- has anyone declared the first one yet?  Does it matter if it's a really small one?

Gene 

[John Bilotta]

Congrats

Sent from my iPhone

On May 10, 2015, at 11:03 AM, TurbineBlade <doubl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey -- has anyone declared the first one yet?  Does it matter if it's a really small one?

Gene 

--
http://www.tpfr.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tidal-potomac-fly-...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/03907181-fbd3-4cfc-a36f-31074cfa9267%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

<2015-05-10 11.48.38.jpg>

<2015-05-10_11.47.18.jpeg>

[Bob Smith]

Love seeing that Fenwick. I'm going to set a couple of mine up and use them this summer.

[TomS]

nice

[Andy Thomas]

Snowhite caught one last week...he tweeted about it.

On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 12:03:41 PM UTC-4, TurbineBlade wrote:

[TurbineBlade]

Excellent!  Well, neverrmind!  

Gene

[D. Walker]

Gene was it on a super secret snakehead fly?

I am always trying to widen my arsenal of potential snakehead flies, I really want to catch one.

[TurbineBlade]

No nothing secret -- it's just a stupid little fly on a small hook with beadchain eyes, 2 clumps of marabou and some flashy dubbing.  I used to use flash strands, but they foul too much.  

I do things a little differently than most people do for warmwater species -- whereas most folks like larger hooks and hence larger flies, I do not.  I like small flies.  

My go-to fly is basically the one below, but with no flash and instead a small amount of flashy dubbing between the 2 marabou clumps.  Also, I don't like the stringy marabou in the one below -- I hand strip the crappy tips and just use the fluffy stuff which moves more.  Also, the green clump below is almost too long and will probably foul -- I go shorter.  Also, I like it only in a size 12 and 10 hook.  I don't even care for it in a size 8 because I don't think it gives a good profile.  A size 14 has too little of a hook gap and will fatigue (bend open) after a few fish.  

I've caught 5 NSH (?) with it now, several large bass, some catfish, perch, maybe something else, and more sunfish than I can count.  The only species I don't use it for is carp, because for carp I want a heavier fly that gets down quickly and brook trout because I really only fish dries for them (or else I'd rather go do something else....like play gin rummy with Beth).  

A pocket full of these and a good hook file to keep the points sharp and I'm happy.  

Gene ("big fish, little fly") TurbineBlade

[namfos]

And Channa argus on glass?

Mark