princess dresses
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I have two young daughters, both love everything princess. I couldn’t count the number of sequins I’ve picked up or vacuumed over the last six years. Early last winter I was struck with a bit of inspiration and substituted some of the said “sparklees” for beads on a handful of nymphs. When tied on backwards, or the concave side facing out, they act like little sails and sort of dance the fly in the current, not to mention reflect light in several different directions. I tried them on the Norfork last February and they caught fish.
Something I recently saw at Kroger while my wife was buying scrunchies for the girls were packages of hair things made by Goodys. They are elastic bands, maybe 10 – 12″ long if cut, and look kind of like Estaz in chartreuse, purple, pink, and yellow– that I can remember. I mention them because they look like they might make great bass worms.
I will tie something this week and post it. Or, if anyone else has seen them and tried it already, and the sequins, too, I’d like to hear about it and how they fished for you.
Pheasant tails in 16’s and 18’s. On smaller hooks like that the sequins look kind of like the shields vets fit around dogs necks to keep them from….
I honestly can’t say. The fishing, that particular weekend, was kind of tough; I wasn’t catching a lot period. And, I didn’t do any side by side comparisons.
I’ll give them another try my next time out, which hopefully will be all of next weekend, and let you know something more definitive.
This first photo is a bass worm using the hair scrunchy from Goody. They come in packs of six, the colors are bubble gum pink, purple, chartreuse, blue, white, and yellow and cost about $2.50 at my local Kroger.
The fly you see is probably 7″ long and there is still enough material left of the chartreuse to make two more flies. The band is made of cotton with a sold rubber band core. Out of the package it is kind of heavy so I think at least an eight weight rod would be needed to carry the heft. I’ve coated the band with some glitter glue, but would have preferred to use softex and glitter to give it more lip appeal.
A couple of years ago Fly Tyer magazine featured an article on bass worms for fly rods. They used chenille and estaz like materials, doubled them and twisted them to create a curly worm like body. Those work really well, but my tails eventually became unraveled and lost some of their appeal. I thought this hair band thing might make an even simpler alternative.
The second picture is a pheasant tail nymph with a sequin head. For reference, it is a size 16.
I tried to do the photos the right way this time. I don’t have the same knack for macro work that several of you do, so I apologize for them kind of sucking–especially the heavy handed post work.
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