Moved on - Printable Version +- Fishing Forum (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum) +-- Forum: Fly Fishing Forum (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=399) +--- Forum: Tying & using freshwater flies (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=158) +--- Thread: Moved on (/showthread.php?tid=435896)

Moved on - flygoddess - 08-08-2008 I have been thinking about this lately (with the Zug Bug thing) and it has just been brought up on another forum, so for a little activity here........ How many of you and what fly? You had a fly that really worked great, but over time and new introductions, that fly got put on the back burner. No real reason, but it happens. [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Moved on - onehun - 08-08-2008 Pistol Pete Used to use one bhind a bubble when I was growing up tried it again a couple months ago still worked good for rainbows. This isnt a real fly but a fly never the less. [signature] Re: Old favourite superceded ... - IrishFloatTube - 08-08-2008 You mean something like this? [inline wet_midges-sml.jpg] Left: The previous "older" favourite .. the "round-the-bend style of midge pupa with various bodies, floss, wool, horsehair, epoxy and so on. Middle & Right; Later discovery - trout don't care whether the body's straight or curved, and straight is quicker to tie. But a "spider" style midge pupa's hen hackle has more action which they do prefer. So the "new" ones are all straight with a 1, 2 or 3 turn hen hackle (one side stripped) to affect "sinkability". Wallet is full of both, both will catch fish, but the spiders get all the action. Thinks: I gotta get used to putting on the old versions when fishing among trees [] [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Moved on - Dryrod - 08-08-2008 [center][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Is this something in response to Zug Bug?[/size][/#008000][/font] [center][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]Anyhow that is rather a difficult question to answer since I seldom have a chance to fish a body of water more than a couple of times. Since I prefer to fish drys, my first choice for sometime has been the Royal Wulff. But then again when it doesn't produce like the last few times out I look for something new. Last time it was a Griffth Gnat. So I tied a whole bunch in different shadings and that will be my choice the next time out.[/size][/#008000][/font] [center][inline gg.jpg] [signature] Re: [Dryrod] Moved on - macfly55 - 08-08-2008 so thats what those things are suppose to look like.. [] MacFly [cool] [signature] Re: [IrishFloatTube] Old favourite superceded ... - onehun - 08-12-2008 Nah the pistol pete I used to use had an actual spinning blade on the top below the eyelet. [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Moved on - Tarponjim - 08-12-2008 I've still got a few dozen Renegades I used to use 20-some years ago, but haven't gotten one wet or put one in my on-stream box in over a decade. [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Moved on - tubeN2 - 08-15-2008 I would have to agree with TarponJim. I have some old Renegades that my Dad tied for me back in the 70s. I ended up replacing them with Wolfes, Wooley Buggers, Clousers and Zonkers.[cool] [signature]