Cinder Worms

[tattoobob]

SAXATILUS, I got the flies yesterday thanks and Merry X-Mass

[baldwin]

Actually,
I think that bottom one may be a Brian Owens pattern. He is in charge of the fly fishing department at North Cove Outfitters in Old Saybrook, CT. He also originated Owens' Velvet Eel. It's a sand eel pattern made of the same velvet tubing (originated as a trim on furniture upholstery) with lead barbell eyes. It's a killer at the Cape. Works fine for me, Daignault praises it also.

[ProfessorM]

I could have used that thing last year in Barnstable Harbor. That looks like the worms I was seeing. They were all over the place for about 3 nites. Quite a site seeing the fish inhale them by the thousands and not even look at anything I threw at them. Can you buy them or do you have to make yourself? Paul

[Roger]

Originally Posted by Professor Moriarty

Can you buy them or do you have to make yourself? Paul

They are pretty common so I expect that you can buy them. The Page Rogers cinder worm in red can be bought here; Cinder worm
It works best in the pink/flesh color for me though.

[Slinger]

That pink fly was a Rogers original, only hers was burnt orange. Different areas have different colored worms, from blood red to pink, I used to trade hundreds of them for equipment. There`s a place in Lincoln called RICOH that has that tubing in about15 colors in bulk for half of what a shop gets per yard. THe worms start swarming when the watewr temp hits 65, if it`s an early spring that could be the last week of April in the back coves of the salt ponds. To keep those tubing flies closer to the surface during those creeping retrieves try lashing a piece of foam to the shank and then slide the velvet tubing over it.
Slinger

[Roger]

I think you mean Ryco

[Roger]

I ran across some Bob Hines patterns the other day at Crossroads Anglers