u/pittendrigh
Dinner Dates
Here's an ider that needs work
The Gallatin River is high and brown. This is not a hardship time for bigger trout. They are fattening now.
For spin fishermen thes is prime time. For mosc fly fishermen now is fly tying time.
It does not have to be so. Dinner Dates are good time fun. When it's runoff time.
u/pittendrigh — 2 days ago
Skinny Legs Caddis
Two matirials
Duck flank wing
Horizontal fuzzy fibers legs
Mount a duck flank pointing forward
Leave a small tag end of the duck flank stem unning wild at the reas. Leave thread hanging at the eye.
Wet the shank (cement of any kind)
Figure 8 the thread back to the talil end and then forward again. Whip finish at tne eye.
Trim when goo is cured.
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u/pittendrigh — 3 days ago
DIY Hot Shot
For drift boat trolling, where you fish with tne oars. The bead can be small or large-as light or as heavy as you like it.
Memory foam (half closed vell)
Frond tail
Rubber leg hook keeper
Tomato container diving bill
-- on with Sandy paper and super glue
Snelled hook and bead
A barsel swivel on the leader finishes it off
u/pittendrigh — 3 days ago
3" long
--This needs a bigger hook--tomarrow--
This is meant to be a (fly rod) trolling lure. Trolling is at its most fun in a one.man boat whin you get to fish with the oars.
If using bait casting or spinning gear, a bigger bead is all it takes.
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u/pittendrigh — 4 days ago
How they do
Progress slows post geezer status. But doesn't stop. Untill....
u/pittendrigh — 4 days ago
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Misc pics
A bead makes it a fly. A big split shot makes it a lure?
u/pittendrigh — 4 days ago
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Beginner's molding question
I am new to worm resin molding.
I know little. Correct me about the sentences below, when I get it wrong.
Durable aluminum molds can be bought.
If you want custom shapes you carve, smooth, apply wax and then make a female mold from your custom sculpture, with a small kox and polyurethane resin.
So far so good.
Once you have a soft rubbery female mold, how many lure pourers go beyond an.empty mold---and then push strategically placed weight AND a diving bil,l ito the female mold--before pouring any hot liquid Plastisol?
I know from (limited) experience I can add hair, tinsel and feather adornments, to an existing plastitol.minnow, with a soldering iron and a fine brusn and coffee saucer of hot liquid resin.
Who else is adding weight and diving bills to feale pour.molds?
Who else uses a soldering iron and a pine.print brush? To add frills to a Twister Tail?
u/pittendrigh — 5 days ago
Paranormal YouTube (mayfly)
Size #16?
This one is hanging upside down on 10lb test monofilament.
The image was flipped to appear as upright, using a photo editor.
Tne actual tube is hand molded around Teflon tubing, using fabric cement (on the Teflon) as a first step. The final step is a micro-dot of thin CA glue on the diy tube, after siding the fly off the temporary Teflon tube, while hanging upside down (like this).
These look delicate but the are not. What ever else it may or may not be, this a durable little fly.
Is there an advantage? Other than fun to tie? I'll try to answer that in September.
The parachute hackle, the fly body and the wing are built on top of and above the DIY molded tube.
The gossamer wing fibers are pulled up AROUND the (pre-wetted with fabric cement) Teflon tube during construction.
Because fly size is no longer mandated by hook size, you are free do use an #18 hook, hanging below an otherwise #14 or #16 size fly.
I've been making tube fly stoneflies and tube fly hoppers for a long time. Small mayflies are this Spring's hair-brained experiment..
ah.....1" of 20 gauge tubing jambs on a sewing needle, with end of needle in vise.
Purple cross country ski wax on the Teflon is needed ONLY if you want to skip the fabric cemnt, using CA glue from start to finish.
You can skip both fabric cement and CA (or UV) by molding around a temporary Teflon tube, while using hot, clear Plastisol (worm molding resin) painted on with a fine brush.
If you do sink to tne depths of iniquity (and use worm resin) it helps to know higher quality Plastisols have no forever chemicals and do not stink
Cheap Plastisol is not good stuff.
Note too that (clear) silicone caulk works too.
u/pittendrigh — 5 days ago
Channel Flies Update.
Nobody seems to be tracking this issue except me.
I have keen pumping the idea of Channel Flies and Lures.
You can make any lure body (from a #20 midge to a foot long Musky lure) similar to a tube fly, so line and hook are added after construction.
Buc instead ot a physical tube the fly or lure has a long thin (molded) hole or void in its middle, whese the lin⁹e is threaded.
The number of caulks, glues and resins used for molding channels is large.
Some materials are more useful than others. Fast curing is important.
I did not think of Plastisol at first because I have some and it stinks. I don't mind but my wife does. Plastisol is rubber wosm molding resin.
I just found out (and ordered) a quart ot odorless Plastisol, which can be thought of as similar to hot glue (you must heat it to use it) that cures to rubbery soft.
Plastisol is used by most lure markers as a hot liquid poured into a female mold shape.
You can paint it on with a brush. It is perfect for making channel lures.
Fabric cement is perhaps better suited for small channel flies.
This a powerful idea. Channel flies are hot. So are channel lures.
u/pittendrigh — 6 days ago
Roadkill
In 1985 I published Roadkill Streames.
In the years since this fly has become so popular bars and saloons have been named aftex iv.
u/pittendrigh — 7 days ago