09-07-2014, 10:51 PM
[quote flygoddess]Thanks. I use that foam, just differently than you do, which is not to say I won't try now[
] Flip Flops have great foam too, just need cutters[laugh]
So you don't use a jig hook. what makes it a flig and not a dry fly?[/quote]
[#0000FF]It is more of a floating jig than a dry fly. I generally use some kind of weight to get them down NEAR the bottom without dragging on the bottom. That is the idea to keep them wiggling and jiggling just up a ways. The amount of weight and the length of leader to the "flig" determines the distance. Plus, I usually "sweeten" them with worm or fish flesh. Can't profane a dry fly like that.
Replying to your pics...love the moth. But as you well know sometimes a simple outline or representation works as well as an exact replica. Lots of work just to fool a silly trout. But nice.
I make fly jigs too. Some I fish myself. Others for fly rodders who want weighted offerings. Here's a couple of pics. The little Roadrunners in the second pic are on 1/48 oz. heads and about size 6 hooks. They really work on big trout as well as smallies and other panfish...even steelhead.
[inline "JIG FLIES.jpg"]
[inline "Z'S RR'S.jpg"]
[/#0000FF]
[signature]
] Flip Flops have great foam too, just need cutters[laugh] So you don't use a jig hook. what makes it a flig and not a dry fly?[/quote]
[#0000FF]It is more of a floating jig than a dry fly. I generally use some kind of weight to get them down NEAR the bottom without dragging on the bottom. That is the idea to keep them wiggling and jiggling just up a ways. The amount of weight and the length of leader to the "flig" determines the distance. Plus, I usually "sweeten" them with worm or fish flesh. Can't profane a dry fly like that.
Replying to your pics...love the moth. But as you well know sometimes a simple outline or representation works as well as an exact replica. Lots of work just to fool a silly trout. But nice.
I make fly jigs too. Some I fish myself. Others for fly rodders who want weighted offerings. Here's a couple of pics. The little Roadrunners in the second pic are on 1/48 oz. heads and about size 6 hooks. They really work on big trout as well as smallies and other panfish...even steelhead.
[inline "JIG FLIES.jpg"]
[inline "Z'S RR'S.jpg"]
[/#0000FF]
[signature]