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Location: Kodiak, AK | Tandem hook, with lip.
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | As a bucktail maker I can appreciate the work that went into your flies. I think you do a super job on your creations and I really enjoy looking at them. Well done my friend!
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Thank you much. It was actually my fly tying that got me into bucktails as well. Same skillset, and I get nearly as much satisfaction from making baits as I do flies...sometimes more. |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Dumb question: What does the lip on the fly do? |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | MD75 - 2/19/2016 7:29 PM Dumb question: What does the lip on the fly do? Not a dumb question! But it does the same thing a lip does on a crank bait...it makes the fly dive and allows you to tune the fly. Normally you control fly depth with your fly line. But with a floating line or intermediate, you can make the fly dive aggressively and then suspend. On a strong strip, even with a sinking line, as you straighten the line out, it'll often pull the fly up and then have to sink again. This lip pushes the fly down on the strip just like on a conventional crank when you rip it. It typically won't float back up like a Grandma or Jake, but you can bend the lip to induce a side to side or even a wobbler action to it as well.
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Cool...THX! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Yeah it works pretty well. There's been lips on flies for a while now; some homemade, some manufactured. But none larger enough for big, big flies. These are actually designed for small wooden crankbaits. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Great looking pattern Jeff! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Thank you! I actually tied this as an open water ling cod or halibut fly this summer, but I figure it'd work for muskie as well. |
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Location: NE PA | How big is this fly, and how heavy? Beautiful job BTW! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | lennyg3 - 2/28/2016 1:30 PM How big is this fly, and how heavy? Beautiful job BTW! Thanks! The fly is only about 8.5" and it's .48 oz on my archery scale. I really like tying with yak hair, but it can limit you on sizing. If you get too long, it gets too bulky, holds some water and has too much resistance through the air and through the water, thus limiting it's action. Anything longer and I like to tie with hackle.
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