Intruder Alert- Anybody know anything about these?
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So I’m sitting here at the bench dreaming of steelhead, and planning a 200 river-mile exploratory trip for them next season on the Rio Santa Cruz, the only Atlantic drainage in the world with a run, and tying Intruders.
It’s funny, I had just responded to M. Wood’s thread looking for jungle cock and realized that I still couldn’t find mine when I started looking for something to make eyes with on some of these.
Have you thought about tying it as a tube fly. It has some similarity to some shark flies I tie with the trailing hook. I like tube flies in this setup because I can snell the hook directly to the bite tippet rather than tying an internal knot to a hook shank. I think you get a more secure connection and better feel.
Those are some pretty cool looking flies. I think I need to tie some up for the Bulls in the Oldman.
Have you thought about tying it as a tube fly. It has some similarity to some shark flies I tie with the trailing hook. I like tube flies in this setup because I can snell the hook directly to the bite tippet rather than tying an internal knot to a hook shank. I think you get a more secure connection and better feel. Here is a picture of one of my shark flies. The hook is pulled out slightly so you can see the snell on the hook.
Yeah, I know. For the most part it makes more sense to tie these as tubes in the first place. I’ve actually been fishing tubes probably half the time down here for a couple of years now. For some reason, I guess I just go through phases; I attracted to these flies at the moment. I don’t usually end up tying an internal knot to the hook shank though, but snell through the eye of both hooks and then just wrap the tag ends to the cut off shank. Seems to work fine and I’ve not had any pull loose on me. We did a five day float on the Limay last month and got plenty of monster browns on them with no issues.
Yes, when hooked the fly tends to slide up and away from the sharks mouth, so they are not chewing on it during the fight. You are correct, it makes the dehooking process easier since you are dealing only the the hook, not the fly and the snell makes it easier to control the hook as opposed to a loop connection. Also, if you have to cut the shark off rather than dehook (I use relatively small fast desolving hooks) you can usually recover the fly.
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