Rubber San Juan Worms
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Anyone tried these new jelly-gummy-rubber worm things yet? Someone at my office hooked me up with this. I am thinking of using heat shrink tubing rather than thread to lash it to a hook, cause I think thread would slice it in two.
Zach
Have many friends that use those balls for such purposes. Reports indicate they make excellent flies.
A buddy of mine uses those rubber wormy balls for tying a carp pattern. The rubber fly seems to work well for him as he’s always showing off huge carp photos.
You could also try using round rubber legs for a San Juan worm. The only thing is you need to tie it with loose thread wraps so you won’t cut through the rubber. The rubber seems to give the worm a nice action in moving water.
Craig Riendeau (Crawdad Craig) has a deadly pattern employing the rubber tassle toys that is very similar to a SJW.
If these are any good, they could provide a lifetime supply:
http://www.officeplayground.com/Spaghetti-Ball-Mondo-Glow-P1157.aspx
I imagine they could provide a fun way for kids to make flies and could be used on some other patterns.
I wasn’t able to locate any clear heat-shrink, but I am told it exists. I grabbed some black just to see if it would work; sure does, works great.
Zach
That’s an interesting idea, I like it.
I have the clear heat shrink in 1/16″ and 3/32″. I might be able to spare a few tubes. What size are you using for the San Juan?
I picked one up a couple years ago in case I ever go back to the Keys and find myself in the middle of Tarpon exploding on Palolo worms. I have one that should be a dead ringer for those worms.
What I’ve done in the past is to simply thread-wrap the hook, coat the thread-wrap in head cement, then actually thread the rubber worm onto the hook while that head cement is still wet.
I’ve seen guys use the rubber worm things before and they melted them, then super glued them as tentacles for crawfish patterns.
I think he used something like a bodkin to melt part of it and because the middle is hollow, it sits on the hook well with just a bit of super glue.
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When I tie rubber SJW I use the rubber band from a celery stalk. It is lively and you can make it any size..
Those things are like duct tape I save them all, just refitted my duck decoys using them to hold the line and weight to the keel.
I took a couple Project Healing Waters veterans to a patch of private water here in NC. The fishing was tough. One of the gents had a few of Hess’s Squirmy Wormy’s and when he tried it he found just the ticket to wake up those sluggish fish.
I bought a few packs of the material from Dave at the Asheville fly fishing show and have been playing with the stuff a bit. The glow-in-the-dark white really woke the fish up at a club outing for a member I was mentoring.
It seems like cheating but still… the damn things catch fish!Here’s a lot of info:
http://www.castersonlineflyshop.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8_115_196&products_id=1191
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