Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations FlyTyers?

On any given warm and sunny day on our pond, there will be three generations of fishermen (and ladies) fishing everything from cane poles, casting, spinning and fly fishing gear. Baits will range from worms and stink baits through the range of spinner baits and plugs, plastics and flies.

But most of all I enjoy the fun and challenge of catching pond fish on a flyrod.

Are there any fly tyers out there?
If so I’ll swap patterns, flies or ideas?

We have snow on the ground in North Texas this morning and I’ve been at the bench tying a few of my favorites. I’ve found that black with a touch of chartreuse, or chartreuse with black are best color combinations so far for our pond.

Dark colors for off color water, dark light days -bright colors for clear water, sunshine days work for me.

George Glazener

George!

The flies and bucktail jigs that we tie for striped bass hybrids always involve pink and/or red in some fashion. White is a great primary color but a solid streak of hot-pink buck hair and a touch of chartreuse and crystal flash make for absolutely KILLER SBH flies.

I'm not an experienced fly-tier. My cousin is fabulous, though. I've managed to turn him into my own slave labor force. More time for me to spend on the lake!

Norman, OK. My basic ties for my pond here are various wooly boogers, usually slightly weighted and poppers of various sizes and colors. I also tie some foam hoppers. My bass and bluegill are so indiscriminate that it is not very hard to hook them on flies, provided you can get them to the right depth. I occasionally catch channel cats on the wooly boogers and hoppers, and one had a grass carp take a hopper. Fortunately it was only about 5 pounds.

George,

Tieing your own flies and fishing them on your own pond/lake and catching your own home grown fish...thats just a lot of fun, second only to watching the grandchildren catch the same fish. My favorites are wooly buggers in tan/brown and poppers/hoppers/bugs on top. The best BG fly I've found is the old zug bug. Works by itself or as a trailer to a floater. They never seem to get tired of it.

Happy Holidays to all!

Forgot to mention Clouser minnows in grey/blue, chartreuse/white etc. They are great bass lures.

As expected, it appears that we all prefer the basic flies for LMG and BG’s – streamers/clouser minnow type patterns as well as wooly buggers/zug bug type flies. I would add to the list, small squirrel tail spinner flies. Poppers/hoppers/bugs on top – I’m particularly fond of rubber leg gurglers.

I tie all my streamer type flies, weighted and unweighted clouser and deceivers type patterns, as well as larger wooly buggers/zugbugs types, on 60 degree bend jig hooks. I prefer Eagle Claw 413 cad plated and EC410 bronze plated jig hooks. They will run “hook point up” and avoid many snags and hang ups.

Bruce, I have a gazillion striped bass flies of all possible size, colors, shapes and form that should work well for HSB – that is, when our hybrids get big enough to wean them from PomPom and PhP flies ...

Thanks for all responses.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

I am fond of two types of flies. One is basically a bead head wooly bugger but you put a little propeller in the front of the bead. when pulled through the water the blade spins and adds a little attraction. My other favorite is a streamer hook tied with black or purple maribou. Start with the tail like a wooly bugger but don't use hackle instead tie in clumps of maribou down the shank of the hook. This bait really comes to life with minimal movement of the line. Good luck!