HI, GUYS,
Many thanks to those of you who have placed a order for the flies. I am not able to get to do them right away as a large part of my house is upside down at this time due to a darn water pipe burst, which flooded a 6 rooms in the house, in the early hours of Friday.
For those of you that saw the OLN show that featured that fly, then you will know a good amount about the fly and how to fish it.
Here in AR we have stripers in the lakes, and they feed mainly on shad, threadfin and gizzard. Shad will at times come through the outlets on the dams and the large trophy trout will be waiting for them below.
My reason for developing that fly was simple. I wanted a fly that looked real close to a shad and also one when fished imitated it as good as you could get.
That fly has accounted for some 26 species of fish that l know of both in fresh and saltwater.
I have found the best overall size to be around 2 to 3 ins. Large flies like this will often get fish real wary at times. Also the % of hook ups is greater with this overall size. I have tied them much larger than this and used them for stripers here on the lakes, l would get plenty of fish to come up and take them but effective hooks up were not.
The fly can be tied so as it floats, sinks real slow or sinks fast, you can determine with which fly line you use and the fly you use the best presentation at that time, and it will differ I can assure you.
You will find at times they will nail the hell out of it on the surface at other times, a slow sinking fly will do it. And now and again fished real deep.
Another aspect of tying them too large is being able to cast them either at range or with pin point precision. Often here the stripers will show on the surface and you had better get the fly right on them or you will have no chance for them to see it.
Big trophy Browns in the 10lb class range are also the same, you had better get the fly to them real fast when you see them show up or you need to make that fly work just like a natural surface moved dead shad or one that is on its way out, just twitching. fishing in the surface.
Hope this gives you guys a better idea of what that fly is about.
Tight lines for now and let me know how your striper fishing is going.
Davy Wotton.
www.davywotton.com
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