Not Much!

[boblongjr]

This is a fly called "Not Much!" It's tied on 1/80 ounce jighooks. I can fish it about anywhere, cast well, and creeps and crawls like a son-of-a-gun in the water. Fishes from the surface to the bottom. hope it works.

[Ken S]

Thanks Bob,

 

That looks like it is not too tough to tie and I can imagine that it would be quite effective. You listed the weight of the jig/hook. But I'm having trouble visuallizing the size of this fly. If you had included a coin in the picture (for size reference) would you have used a quarter or a dime? If I were to use say a 2x long Nymph hook, about what size hook would it be?

 

If the jig is that light in weight, I imagine it casts very much like a a fly tied with a cone head. I like tying cone head flies, but I sometimes find that if I rush or if I'm not careful, the cone get's loose over time. Sometimes it takes a long time, but often it takes less time than I would like before things get loose. By tying this on a jig hook, one does not have to deal with that weight getting loose on the hook.

 

Thanks again,

Ken S.

[boblongjr]

Here is the size of the fly, also some of the jighooks. I have used cones and dumbell eyes, but I found the hook still rode point down. Simply putting weight on the hook near the eye, (even on the top of the shank) doesn't change it's design characteristics and flip a hook designed to ride point down into a hook that rides point up.

 

I found a great deal of difference in what I tied a fly to do, and what it actually ended up doing in the water, in current. 've found many flies didn't do as the tyer intended. There is a great deal of difference between a fly in the vise and one in the water. Maybe it was just me, but after many years, I abandoned cones and lead eyes and turned to jighooks.