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Rats!
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03/05/17 11:45 PM
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I was able to tie with the "Roadkill Roundtable" yesterday at the DFW Bass Pro and I learned a new fly. If you're in the DFW area and have never taken your vise and tied with this group, you are missing a great opportunity. This is a highly skilled group of fly tyers. Saturday mornings is a bring your vise and tie whatever you want from 10 to about 1. But once a week they host a fly tying class where they tie a different pattern each week. Anyone is welcome to join them. Dutch showed me how to tie a "Rusty Rat" yesterday. Today, I tied another fly in the Rat series before I forget everything I learned yesterday. Here's a "Blue Rat". I don't have all of the right materials, but I got close.
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03/06/17 06:32 PM
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Zip-ur-Fly
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Holder of Texas State & Lake Fly Rod Records.
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." Attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." Confucius
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04/02/17 11:29 PM
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A rainy day was a good time to try again. Proper proportions are still challenging me with this style of tying. Rusty Rat fly:
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04/15/17 03:56 AM
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A Rusty Rat fly pattern tied in Casting for Recovery colors. So, I guess you could call this a "CFR Rat Fly"???
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04/16/17 12:33 AM
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mbarker68x
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Looks good Rex! My wife has a TFO CFR 5wt. Do you fish any of these salmon flies that you are tying up? Bet they would work on the Bass and larger Gills really well.
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04/16/17 03:06 AM
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Thanks. I haven't had a chance to fish them very much yet. I keep forgetting to put them in my fly box, but I agree with you I think they would work on bass and gills. The only concern I have is that they are not weighted. With the upturned eye they sink beautifully, nice and level, but they sink slow compared to most of my other bass flies. I haven't figured out how to fish with them yet. I think they would be killer during spawn when something slow can work very well, but when the fish are deeper, I'm thinking I may try them as a dropper off of something like a clouser that will pull them down faster.
Keep in mind that I primarily bass fish in lakes. I have not tried them in moving water yet.
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04/16/17 11:13 AM
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