Fish Skull Fish Spine
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Have you guys tried this new product? It’s basically a series of interlocking articulation shanks to make the tail of an articulated bait fish fly. Or the Front part with a trailer hook, I suppose.
I tried to use the “Game Changer” fly as a base, I used a 4/0 owner hook, CCT body fur, CCG eyes, and DNA for the tail.
I tied up these Friday night when I got some materials in the mail. I tried out the grey-colored one yesterday and it looked very good in the water. More testing and revisions to come, I got a ton of material in to play with. Sorry for the low quality pics.
That cct body fur is a pain to work with. I’m not to crazy about it. I like the looks of the EP streamer brushes for this fly.
This guy.
Today was the first day I really got to fish the ones I tied. Done right they look amazing in the water. Lots of wiggle going on.Here’s the 3 I have tied so far. The middle and bottom one have caught stripers. The gray one was tied with EP streamer brush, which I think works better. The CCT body fur is very dense and falls apart if you are not careful while you are tying.
Here are step by step instructions
http://flymenfishingcompany.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/TyingWithTheArticulatedFish-Spine.pdfAnd a video
Well done dude. I’m shocked the fish were catchable with the weather as cold as it has been this weekend. 66 in August in Atlanta?!
Good job.
Zach
I tied two of these in the smaller size. Did not wiggle very much (not like the video) and thus seemed a lot of trouble for not much more a action than a flatwing style hackle? I don’t see a mechanism in the fly design to cause wiggle. Used a front head of deer hair and Hareline Baitfish emulator flash for the rest and used three segments.
Were you using the articulated fish spine and not just the articulated shanks? I tied mine the way the instructions above showed. I think synthetics work better for this fly. Anything that comes on a brush or attached to a string so that you can palmer it on works. I think the way you trim them effects the action a lot too.
I used three decreasing size fish spines as per included in the package. Somewhere I read to use a stiffer head to promote the action. I guess one should not use deer hair. I still don’t see how they are getting the wiggle they are getting on the video without a lip or other mechanism to induce side to side motion.
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Above are my latest offerings. The rainbow got fished pretty hard Sunday, great movement and look in the water, not a bite.
That being said, It’s been rarely fishable in the rivers I normal fish with all the rain, but I have gotten to try out the patterns at least.
I think the side to side motion comes with a tapering cut down the fish. I use all 4 sizes of fish spine, and two hooks, so it’s actually 6 segments. You could cut off the rear hook barb if desired and if you had strong cutters.
Congrats again on the fish Jay.
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