gael bataille
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Thank you Neal, I hope that I can be of help where I can on the forum.
I didn’t mean that you can only fish the booby in the traditional method like I described, I’ve even used it as a strike indicator when fishing buzzers/midges, especially if it’s a nice bright orange, it seems to catch the fishes attention and when they come to investigate (they don’t usually take the booby) and they take the midge/buzzers.
What I find also works pretty well instead of the paint brush is to take an old telescopic aerial and take it apart. You now have a series of tubes of different diameters to make eyes in different sizes. To sharpen the tube, just place it in a drill and hold a piece of water paper to the edge you wish to sharpen while spinning in the drill (wear safety glasses when doing this please). You can use the drill to also cut the foam but you have to use it at low speed otherwise you will start to melt the foam.
These sharpened tubes are also pretty good to manufacture low cost eyes for saltwater flies from holographic sheets that the hardware slingers use to decorate their lures and spoons, you punch out the circular eyes from the sheet and paint in the black pupil.
With regards to fishing a booby, I think they originate from here in the UK and traditionally they are fished on a fast sinking line with a short leader. The pause is critical (I usually pause between 5 to 10 seconds, experiment) and have found it really effective on lakes when the fish have been put down deep due to a cold front.
The only downfall to this technique is that trout tend to swallow it pretty deep (during the pause) which can make CAR a bit of an issue. To overcome this (and it actually increases the catch rate to boot) is that while you pause, you do an extremely slow figure of 8 retrieve, you’re only trying to maintain contact with the fly but not impede it rising during the pause. This way you can strike if you feel the take instead of only realising when you strip at the end of the pause.
