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esoxfly

Posted 9/22/2013 12:12 AM (#664701)
Subject: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Here's a fly I recently tied for halibut, but I think a muskie would eat it so thought I'd share. It'd be a bear to cast all day long, but there's much less casting in halibut fishing, so it works on the 13 or the 16. 24"

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ToddM

Posted 9/22/2013 8:35 PM (#664804 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 20248

Location: oswego, il

Being wet could you cast it with spinning gear?

Corso Mike

Posted 9/24/2013 3:10 PM (#665118 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: RE: Halibut fly

Posts: 182

Holy Hannah! Were you bored or too much material sitting around? That is a monster.
How many hooks built into that thing? That is too cool. You never seem to run out of ideas. Always impressed.

Flambeauski

Posted 9/24/2013 4:22 PM (#665131 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 4343

Location: Smith Creek

Wow. Imitation cod intestine?

Norway pike

Posted 9/25/2013 4:35 AM (#665201 - in reply to #664804)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 39

Nice fly.

ToddM - 9/22/2013 8:35 PM

Being wet could you cast it with spinning gear?

We use spinnflyes in Norway, just add some zonkerstrips(rabbit or fox) to the tail. The zonkerstrips soaks water and makes the fly easy to cast. I use a 9fot spinning rod rated up to 1.5oz, 50lb powerpro and a size 4000 reel. Works best in cold water, work them slow with some long stops.

esoxfly

Posted 9/25/2013 4:53 AM (#665202 - in reply to #665201)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Norway pike - 9/25/2013 5:35 AM Nice fly.

ToddM - 9/22/2013 8:35 PM Being wet could you cast it with spinning gear?

Yeah, it'd need some weight added to it to be reliably castable with spinning gear. Even just adding zonkers, this thing is so long and catches so much wind, you'd want to add some split shot or something. Plus, the feathers, even when wet still like to sit on the water surface tension, so it'd need additional weight to even sink. This fly as you see it is unweighted.

esoxfly

Posted 9/25/2013 4:55 AM (#665203 - in reply to #665131)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Corso Mike - 9/24/2013 4:10 PM Holy Hannah! Were you bored or too much material sitting around? That is a monster. How many hooks built into that thing? That is too cool. You never seem to run out of ideas. Always impressed.

Thank you sir. Three hooks. Not bored, and never too much material! I set out to tie this. I have a dark version as well.

Flambeauski - 9/24/2013 5:22 PM Wow. Imitation cod intestine?

Thanks. Actually a dead pink salmon carcass imitation...

Corso Mike

Posted 9/25/2013 9:21 AM (#665222 - in reply to #665203)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 182

Started a new design after looking at your Halibut fly last night. Planning on adding some weight but still need to be able to toss it with a 12wt. Dream big or don't dream at all. I know I'm on the right path when my wife is walking by and stops, shakes her head and moves on.

esoxfly

Posted 10/5/2013 11:25 PM (#667017 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: RE: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Here's what I'm getting at with these flies; imitating dead pink salmon that float out and the halibut congregate and eat. The lighter one showed up a bit dark in the pic, but they're a combination of yellows, greys, whites, purple...they're a mess but the halibut love them.

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Zinox

Posted 10/6/2013 5:39 AM (#667026 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1100

They look so awesome :D

Please post a picture when you get something on them

esoxfly

Posted 10/6/2013 11:00 AM (#667050 - in reply to #667026)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Zinox - 10/6/2013 6:39 AM They look so awesome :D Please post a picture when you get something on them ;)

These are crappy 35 mm scans from my last tour here (in the days before camera phones and digital cameras being everywhere.) I got one pic of my first one (which is why I look so young!) and got one of me with a very large one that I lost about 20' down. All said total, I've got probably 25 halibut on a fly, and many more hooked and lost. Biggest boated is just over 50 lbs. This season is already over and I only went for halibut twice this year. The boat will be put away soon, so it'll be next year before I give it a shot again.

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Zinox

Posted 10/6/2013 11:10 AM (#667052 - in reply to #667050)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1100

Nice thanks for sharing, looks like a ton of fun :D

esoxfly

Posted 10/6/2013 1:20 PM (#667071 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

LOL, not really. Many, many, many hours between fish while everyone else in the boat is dragging fish up. It's worse than fly fishing for muskies!

Zinox

Posted 10/6/2013 2:31 PM (#667075 - in reply to #667071)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1100

Sounds like a boat load of work, :P

esoxfly

Posted 10/6/2013 5:21 PM (#667096 - in reply to #667075)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Zinox - 10/6/2013 3:31 PM Sounds like a boat load of work, :P

Ha, yep!

Ebenezer

Posted 10/14/2013 11:31 PM (#668584 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: RE: Halibut fly

Posts: 210

How do you present/work a fly intended to represent a decaying carcass? Your materials obviously have a lot of movement. Are you stripping? Dead drifting?

esoxfly

Posted 10/17/2013 2:46 AM (#668924 - in reply to #664701)
Subject: Re: Halibut fly

Posts: 1663

Location: Kodiak, AK

Primarily dead drift with a twitch now and then. If you've ever seen salmon dying, they'll look dead but still be barely alive, or even swimming, so trying to represent a mixture of dead and dying.

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