fichy
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Cheap!
  The fly cost 15 cents. The hooks are Eagle Claw Octopus (USA made) which are a little less than 9 cents , the beads are a penny apiece, and thread and 1/2 inch of estaz are around 3 cents. A little more than a foam egg, but not by much! I hope they work. Took about a minute to tie. The beads I've been using on the front of leeches and buggers, not by themselves yet. They are 1.99 for a tube of 200+. The colored copper wire in the pics were 10.00 for 10 spools. The UTC wire on the thread spools are the same wire sold for fly tying at 4 times the cost. The material in the bottles is: the red is a liquid coating called EZ Shape Sparkle Body that I've been using for 6-7 years on saltwater flies. I buy it from a flyfishing company in Rhode Island for about 5 bucks a bottle. I've been happy with it.It makes a durable plastic coating, similar to Loon Hardhead, except in a choice of many colors. I found the same stuff made for putting on t-shirts for 1.19 a bottle in A.C.Moore. I bought some black and will use it for tying stoneflies. I also buy my foam for making poppers in the craft store. It's about a quarter of the price of what you pay in a flyshop. What can I say, I'm cheap. Charlie
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dimebrite
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Fichy; my prediction is  It looks like it may work good 
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hot tuna
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I don't know.. I tried similar in the past.. Yes it caught a few but not with regularity..
Plastic beads ? Try glass or tungsten colored ? I never did..
Maybe it was just a winter thing. If spring higher in column it might get bit more ?
"whats that smell like fish oh baby" .. J. Kaukonen
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dimebrite
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Fichy; for some reason I keep on seeing a few wraps of red hackle in the front and possibly a sparse tail in red hackle fibers...
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hot tuna
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still, I think it's the plastic that keeps it floating just above the zone.. IMO..
this time of year sparse, well not like that thread on a hook deal, but sparse larva or fast sinking materials is the ticket.. I think ?
Fichy has been hitting the river & catching more then us so ...... He may be able to give his findings.
Warmer temps (that magic 40) then higher in the column..
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I know its been a while, but am I sensing an HT vs. DB debate???  lmao You are very right though tuna; for the beginner fichy claims to be; he sure is showing us roosters up thus far
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Got a lifetime supply of yarn(I think it was baby cloud) in a craft store--works good for sucker spawn and can hack a bunch off and dye it any color u want.I also p/u a few other secret ingredients(for sacks) when I'm there
Steel on a pin---so easy a caveman can do it.
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fichy
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They're transluscent glass beads and sink FAST. They'll work . But what do I know. The point was cheap flies or materials that are effective, not what will work tomorrow morning. My wife use to have a yarn store, Metal. I got this neat chenille in a bunch of colors for spawn. I think one skein of it would tie a thousand flies. LIFETIME. Charlie
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Right on..  I tried plastic  because they were duh, cheap & I was dumb.. You hit it with glass, maybe I missed the material, my bad.. Depth, presentation and variety are the key, at least what I have found over the years.. Now yes, that fly will get bit :) Moral.. Don't use plastic..
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Fitchy:
I thought those were glass beads because that's what Eagle Crg and I used for our small beaded flies. We got them from a craft store in Lasselville that has sinced closed. We also check out A.C. Moore on a regular basis for a variety of different materials to vary our flies. Also use a variety of my wife's nail polishes on both our flies and to spark up the colors on our laker/salmon/trout spoons.
Nice job and thanks for the detail.
Eagle Ed
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I'm such a clumsy oaf that on the first cast I would land that glass fly on a rock and shatter it.
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fichy
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ORIGINAL: draketrutta
I'm such a clumsy oaf that on the first cast I would land that glass fly on a rock and shatter it.
Look at the color of those beads, Drake. Get some turquoise in NM and throw rocks at them.... I'll remind you now to take pics, lots of enchanted pics. Charlie
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