Crease Fly?

[josh o donnell]

I am wanting to whip up some smaller crease flys for shoalies and was wondering if anyone has any tips for these?

If anyone has any expertise, what are you using to coat the foam? I read about using Thompson water sealer.

[Zach Matthews]

Crease Flies are awesome patterns – love them for everything from bluefish to bass to cutthroat trout (have caught them all on crease flies).

[josh o donnell]

Thanks Zach,

What are you using to color them? I was going to use sharpies but didn’t know if there was something better.

[Zach Matthews]

Sharpies work fine.

[Carter Simcoe]

Get the big multi colored pack of foam from wal*fart, it will give you some good starting points and then you can touch them up with sharpies.

[matt boutet]

I’ve found that the inside of the foil label on a can of Edge Shave gel is a great reflective coating for crease flies.

[josh o donnell]

Cool, thanks for the ideas. I will try that foil on the shaving cream. I want to tie up some bigger ones for linesides so that will help to get a shad look.

[David L. Darnell]

Zach,

What size was the fly you used to catch the Cuttie? I’m going to take a popper to Yellowstone with me to try, some of the

[Zach Matthews]

It was an insane #3/0 Crease Fly meant to imitate a Peacock Bass fry – surprised the crap out of me that it took it.

Zach

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