Not sure if this is where this ought to be posted... I tie my own flies and begain using my favories as teasers this summer. Mostly the "old" classics. Rays Fly, Ray's Fly Flatwing, Gibb's Striper Fly, Blondes, etc... WOW!!! Hit rate went up substantially... Anyone else use them?

i use some black bucktail with a couple black hackles tied in. quick to tie and i don't care if the blues cut them off. i didn't use them too much this year. :huh:

Sometimes I use a deciever, but i mostly fish rocky areas and it would be disasterous for that teaser to get wedged into a rocky place while landing a bass.
I will say that when I do use a teaser, my catch rate goes up quite a bit.

My true love is with redgills :love:

i use big snake and sand eel flys at night and squid flys and clousers in the day

I've used them in the past...quantity goes way up, quality is another story. I'll use them to catch hickory shad especially at night and then live line them.

Anybody use a Mickey Finn pattern as a teaser ?
Was a salmon fly in the beginning
Works great on European bass, ahead of any topwater lure (Pencil popper, popper, spook...)

My recipe :
Silver flat tinsel, red tag,
Red or Orange over Yellow bucktail
Black thread head

Can anybody tell me where to find the tying recipes for the above mentionned flies ?

I've had good luck with a black & white Deceiver. Like Eben said, you can run into problems with it in the rocks. The schoolies love the Deceiver, but schoolie fishing with a teaser turns into a nuisance quick.

I tried it for the first time for the first time this year with plugs. Has a great hook up rate. I want to try to make my own next season.

I use to tie my own teasers...nothing that had a fancy "name" just a few hackles and or bucktail on a hook up ahead of my plug. (I should have named them "sandman's sandeel" or "Righty's confuser":)) I generally would tie this on when fishing was slow. I used them a lot after Tony Stetzko got his big fish in 81. Yes, I did find the hit rate to generally increase but they were mostly smaller fish (for me anyway) that would take the teaser. (you also will pick up shad, small blues and other smaller crap fish like sand dabs crusing the surf zone) Sometimes I would get a double header. As an experiement I tied on 6 or 8 of them once and gave it a umbrella rig like look to the plug. (Hey...you got to try new things or you will never learn anything.)
Since I am trying to target fish larger that for the most part I concentrate on the bigger baits solo now. But as I said if things slow down or the conditions are good for an added appendage I will tie on one (so to speak:D )
I have to say though now that my wife fly fishes and has a lot of flys, I do pick thru her selection and find some nice teasers to add on. Frankly though I have not found bass *that* particular on which fly...generally an epoxy minnow or sandeel type does the trick.
*Many* people each season see a teaser rig on my rod and ask..."Does that really work any better?" My response is now.. "I just tie it on to fool the tourists" ;) another question that is asked.."What is the biggest bass you have ever caught ON the teaser itself?" Honestly, the largest fish was in the low 20's but most of them are schoolies and shorts.
Does it enhance the plug?.....my response would be: at times it does.

here's a bunch from a previous swap.

I fell out of practice of using a teaser fishing rocky areas, but got back into them in the late summer when the smaller bait made an apperance... it paid off... somenights 90% of the fish (small and decent size) hit the teaser... unless its real shallow or bony I fish a teaser...
As PIemma about keeping a teaser on at a spot on BI... it pays off.... :D

Redgills:D

Yes, redgills are definitely one of the best teasers. My first teaser rig ever was tied for me by Dave Hammock at Murats way back when and it used a redgill!

those flys are Gorges :claps: