flies to imitate soft plastics

getchoo · #1 31-08-2003, 08:58 AM

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So it's blatantly simple.
No idea what it's name is, but it's a bit of wooly bugger, a bit of booby.

but i got four smallish bream last tuesday in mosman bay fishing it the same way you would a soft plastic, and marabou tails have that 'wriggly' sort of look to them underwater..
And best of all you don't get people telling you that tying plastics into flies is a terribly unethical practice.
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now to tie it in more 'natural' soft plastic colours...

cheerio
al

Brody · #2 31-08-2003, 09:53 AM

Hey Al,

did u tie that your self it looks great.

Thanks,Brody

getchoo · #3 31-08-2003, 11:22 AM

hey brody
tied it myself but was halfway through tying a wooly bugger for trout fishing when i remembered a picture of a booby flies.
I didn't have the foam eyes needed so tied in bead chain instead.

And then it looked awfully like a soft plastic in the water.
I'm sure this fly already exists somewhere, but I like it regardless.
al

dan_WA · #4 31-08-2003, 09:43 PM

Sounds like a bit of a double paradox....
An artificial imitating another artificial !
great looking fly though

Duncan M · #5 01-09-2003, 02:12 AM

Hey Alex,
Don't worry, I'm not here to hassle you about the football haha.
I had the same idea the other day while I was tieing, I came up with a few things, I was stifled by a lack of pumpkinseed marabou though

I'm don't use a lot of natural materials so marabou was all I had handy, but there could be something even better that I don't know about.
All i need to do know is get off my arse and go fishing

Cheers
Duncan

fatman · #6 01-09-2003, 03:59 AM

something like this

fatman · #7 01-09-2003, 04:01 AM

or this

fatman · #8 01-09-2003, 04:02 AM

this

fatman · #9 01-09-2003, 04:18 AM

http://www.ezy.net.au/users/flyfishi.../fly_tying.htm

getchoo · #10 01-09-2003, 07:19 AM

love the prawn imitation fatman. Very likelike.

I don't personally agree with tying in rubber tails into flies, but that's just a personal preference. Apart from the whole "is it a fly, isn't it a fly" argument, I find them difficult to cast on the six weight.

but an imitation of a rubbertail? No worries...

cheerio
al