Couple flies from this weekend

[Abe Mathews]

I’ve been tying some Crease flies over the past few weeks, but have yet to connect with any of them.  Last week I found some mylar gift wrap at a craft store, so here are two flies with that material.  The first is a gray craft foam with mylar glued to it.  The second is a sparkle foam I found with the mylar.  Colors are by Sharpie – olive and chartreuse.  The tails are chartreuse bucktail with a bit of the darker tail fur mixed in and some “fire orange” Krystal Flash.  Hooks are a cheap Eagle Claw 1/0 I found at Wal Mart for $3/50.

Gray foam:

Sparkle foam:

And now the one that’s got the wife mad.  For those of you who don’t know, I have a Brittany named Filson.  First the dog:

Then the fly:

Here’s hoping he’s a fish catching dog…

[dusty montgomery]

Abe,
We are completely on the same page. I was just staring at our new dog this morning, and my wife looks at me, then simply says, “NO!” I didn’t say a word, but she knew. I just gotta wait until my new girl gets some more body to her coat; hopefully, that way I will not get caught.
D.

[Rob Snowhite]

i’ve got plenty of mylar foam at home, i can sell you some dirt cheap or mail you some for cost of postage

it’ll be much less messy than gluing the mylar

send me a pm

Cheers

[peter d arcy clynes]

I’m with you guys on the dog hair. In my part of the world we’re just rolling from the cold seasons into the warm-hot seasons and my little black pug recently ended her small transformation from Zoe the black pug to Zoe the two tone pug, indicating to the world that she’s

[Abe Mathews]

Here are a couple more Crease Flies.

[Jim Lampros]

Sweet ties. I’ve been curious about crease flies for a while as I’m looking for a good shad pattern for my home water. What’s your preferred method for fishing these guys? Thanks,

JL

JL

[gregg mckee]

Crease flies are really durable if you tie them right.  Our tarpon and snook love them and it’s one of the most awesome strikes to see.  They take a little more effort to assemble than a standard popper but I think they’re much more realistic.  They can stand up to a lot of bites which makes the time spent at the vise worthwhile.  The fish below was caught on a similar mylar Crease last spring.  

[Shannon Drawe]

There sure is a lot of sex talk lately – sexy shad talk that is. Maybe the Sexy Shad will do / has done for the casters what Clouser did for the fly folks? shannon

[mick mccorcle]

We’ve had golden retrievers for 25 years and what they do best is shed.

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