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Trying a few warm-water ties for the first time

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corlay	Trying a few warm-water ties for the first time	Lead	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 902 (07/01/09 23:40:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Viewing the current warm-water tying contest entries has inspired me to try a few basic ties for the first time. (Although, my skills don't approach that level of expertise!) I've only fished traditional poppers for bass/panfish in the past, and I've been meaning to break-out and expand my horizons into a few foam-bodied patterns. So, up first was the good 'ol gurgle-pop: (on a #6 4x long streamer hook) The tail is calf tail dyed neon-green. (too long, maybe?) I like the way this pattern looks from the Bass's perspective! and can't wait to try out the gurgle-pop action of the foam "lips"! I'll be heading up to my Buddy's 4-acre pond for the 4th weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to follow this post, with some pics of rod and fish. The other pattern I tried is based upon a medley of Chernobyl Ant patterns I found online. I mixed and match the characteristics that I liked, and came up with this: (on a 8x 2x long dry fly hook) Brown hackle palmered underneath makes it look pretty buggy, I think. I'm interested in trying this one out, to see how it';s going to ride on the water with all that stuff going on about it. Added some looped buck tail for a little suggestion of wing, and it doubles as an indicator. this one looks tasty from below, as well, with an orange under-body, and all of that brown "bugginess". Wish me luck. "From my observations I think that most of us spend too much time worrying about our tackle and too little time learning the intimate characteristics of the fish and streams we fish most." - Ray Bergman Trout, New York: Knopf 1938 Last Edited By: corlay 07/01/09 23:44:13. Edited 1 time.
jgestar		#1	[-]
Posts: 3798 (07/02/09 00:15:40) ezOP Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Corlay, Those are two of my favorite warm water ties. I usually tie the gurgle pop on a size 10 dry fly hook, so it is about the same size as a June bug. Instead of head lacquer, I use Super Glue on the all the wraps from the bottom. I always lose the fly long before it comes apart. Size 12 or 14 gurgle pops in black are good terrestrial imitations for trout. The Chernobyl Ant is a great fly to work along the shoreline. I usually tie these on a #6 long hook to represent a big grasshopper or cricket. Surprisingly big fish will smack these. I lost a couple of good ones last year before I swore off fluorocarbon tippet material. Tom
corlay		#2	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 907 (07/06/09 07:34:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	jgestar wrote: Those are two of my favorite warm water ties. yeah, these 2 patterns seem to get a lot of "press" here, so I figured it'd be a good place to start. as it turns out, I caught fish on both this past weekend. The fishing was a little sparse, compared to how it's been so far this early Summer, however. Not sure why? We had a week of good solid rain prior, maybe that put the fish down deeper? There just wasn't much surface activity to speak of, the entire 2 days I was there, even though the damsels and dragons were out in abundance. I was almost like if you didn't drop your fly right on it's head, you just weren't going to elicit a strike. Sub-surface spinners and the like didn't do much better either. We were also wondering if these types of fish (pumpkin seed, LM bass, etc) get a little lazy post-spawn? "From my observations I think that most of us spend too much time worrying about our tackle and too little time learning the intimate characteristics of the fish and streams we fish most." - Ray Bergman Trout, New York: Knopf 1938
beauglass		#3	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 558 (07/06/09 09:43:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Corlay, Most of the time (around here anyway) the fish "turn off" for a little bit after a good rain. You can catch a few but nothing like normal. Bass will feed post spawn. Once the water starts warming up, you can usually find them deeper. Although, they'll still hit topwater early and late. Once the sun gets up very high though, they head for cover. Panfish will spawn just about all summer, you just gotta find the beds. This time of year, panfish is just about all I target. If I had been keeping fish this past Friday, I would have filled a 5 gallon bucket full of bluegill and greenies. It rained a ton on the 4th, then I went back yesterday. I wound up catching 3 and had to throw 5 different flies to get them. I think you prolly just hit them during a post rain shut down. It's time to turn over a new fly. DF Furled Leaders.com
bassackwards		#4	[-]
Master Guide Posts: 443 (07/19/09 20:23:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	A guy in my fishing club ties gurgle pops with the lip twice as long as yours. He coats it with superglue and stands it almost straight up. The longer lip doesn't make it float sideways, and it pops much better that way.

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