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Cold weather drove me to the tying bench. Thinking Big flies for the coming months . Those fish have got to be hungry...
Sculpin


Wiper Candy:


bass and musky


A bunch other colors too.
These all have stinger hooks.
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More works of art! What's the next fly swap gonna be? Musky, Wiper?

Do you have a wire or something between the hooks for the stinger? Also curious what the heads are made from. Are they weights or some sort of bead?
I really should go visit a fly store, I'm just scared what it'd do to my pocket book!

My daughter got excited about "tying" but for wanting to make jewelry, earings mostly. Need to get her going with that - she's pretty darn creative once she gets onto something.

I use 16 lb mono folded over to connect the stinger. The beads in the middle are glass beads. Expensive way to separate the two hooks, but I have them and haven't used them for anything else in a few years.
I do need to get to a Hobby shop or even Wally World for beads though.

Spiderwire would be a good connection too.
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I agree those are works of art. Do you really want to cast them into some water with smelly fish? Put them up as artwork instead.
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Thanks! They have tasted blood (mine while tying them) so there is no stopping them, they are hungry. Maybe I can mount what goes after them...[laugh][laugh]
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Wow! Beautiful! Those fishskulls really make a mean looking fly.
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I think you have way to much fun tying stuff up! Very jealous! Flies look awesome BTW. Sure you already knew that otherwise you wouldn't be posting them up for everyone to see! Have you fished the Weber or Provo with that sculpin streamer yet? Curious to see how ya did. People always say, BIG fish like BIG meals!
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Not yet, but I have a Big Yellow one screaming for the Provo
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VERY NICE !!! Luv tying with those sculpin heads
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How funny, I just tied up a big yellow sculpin last night. Those are gorgeous flies, and I'm liking the bead idea. I would think that them clicking together would attract fish, kind of like a Carolina Rig for bass.
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That could. I got the idea from Kelly Galloup. He uses beads on his stingers.
Plus, where I am threading the mono through the hook then folding it over and attching two ends to the front hook, the beads keep a loop from forming and catching.
I have some rattle dumbbells though. I even looked at rattles yesterday at Western Rivers. Man, Steve has got that store stocked well with tying supplies.
I could not find the Rabbit at Cabela's or Sportsman's but WR had everything.
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Cool, I'll have to check his store out the next time I'm down that way. I try to support local business as much as I can, but I do find myself spending most of my money online.

I just had an idea for the sculpin patterns. I'm going to attach some foam at the tip of the tail so that the tail floats up off the bottom. It will be kind of like a shaky head when bass fishing with spinning gear.
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I have thought of the foam. There was a Worm pattern in a Magazine a few years ago that was out of Shammy where they attached foam to the tail.
This thought occured to me yesterday as I have a bunch of Booby dumbbells. How easy would they be to attach to a tail!!!!
Let me know how it works.
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With the warm weather coming it will be bass time soon, so hopefully I'll get to try it before long. I will definitely let you know.
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Nice flies FG! Hope you don't mind me adding a few big 'uns I've been working on lately. I'm heading out for bass for the first time this year this weekend. Throwing some of these "Deflectinators" (big 5 inch long tube flies):



And some of these if we can get the fish to move:



And something like this for the deeper weeds:


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That bottom one is sweet! Weed Guard on the top? Brilliant.
Have not dabbled in the poppers yet, but anything us possible.
Thanks for jumping in.
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I seem to remember seeing that bottom one before, are you on a fly tying blog too? What kind of hook did you use for it? I might have to give that one a try.
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That fly might have gotten picked up by a blog but it's only been on Facebook or Flickr that I know of. The hook is a Daiichi 4630 Bass hook in a 3/0. It's a 60 degree bend which allows the sculpin head to go on there at a decent angle.
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your second popper is similiar to what i use for top water musky.
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Cool, thanks for the info, I will get a hold of some of those.
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