SPOONFLY FIELD TEST

[Greg McWilliams]

 Finally got out today a gave the fingernail spoonflies a try!!!!!! Beautiful day on the PRAIRIE light breeze about 20 and gusty!!!! 80 degrees + awesome winter day!!!!!!!!! Armed with these spoons and a 3 wt. flyrod medium action, fast action would work better!!!!!! They cast well and actually cast into the wind better than with the wind to you back!!!!! The one with dressing on the hook took fish better than those with out!!!!!! Looked good in the water on an intermediate sinking line!!!!!

Caught 20 to 25 crappie and 12 bass on all colors!!!!! I fished 6 of the flies in about 3 hours!!!!!!

Crappie were hitting on the drop!!!!!!!!

 

Bass were hitting it on the strip hard!!!!!!!!

This one hit the SWEDISH SORTOF PIMPLE!!!!!!
All and all it was a good day of fishing, I ended up with 8 crappie for the table!!!!!

 

While it was a fun day of fishing cannot consider this a success as a fly, YET!!!!
I caught lots of bass and crappie while fun the were no BLUEGILL, no GREENSUNFISH, no HYBRIDS orREDEAR!!!!! NOT A FAILURE TIL I GIVE UP!!!!!
JUST NEED MORE FIELD TRIALS!!!!!!

    The split ring for the hooks and the barrel swivals between the leader and the tippet are a must!!!!!!

http://bigbluegill.com/profiles/blogs/flyrodders-did-you-ever-feel-...

http://bigbluegill.com/group/northamericanspoonchuckers/forum/topic...

[John Sheehan]

Greg -Give yourself some credit here it's catching on ! Jen -Nice hats off to Greg! Nice Warmouth catch also!

[Leo Nguyen]

Awesome Jen! Lucky you to be near a fly mastery inventor. Thanks for the tip. I got the materials down, made a few horrible preliminaries, and yet to get the proper paints to coat them with. Blue-silver and black-orange-yellow tiger stripes will be my first round of attacks. Hope they work well with a spinner as well as with fly rod.

[Jen Nayfly]

First outing of 2012 and wanted to try one of Greg McWilliams spoonfly for the flyrodder. Landed this large Warmouth full of eggs. Returned her to the maternity ward. Spoonfly works GREAT!  Good action in the water. Attached a swivel from the leader to the tippet and it gave it just the right amount of weight. Used with a sinking fly line and got it all the way down to bottom. Ingenious fly Greg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This silver looked like a fast swimming minnow.

[Greg McWilliams]

Snagger, I would lot rather be FEATURED in INWEEDS MAGAZINE!!!!!!!!

[Greg McWilliams]

David, I use a loop knot on all my flies!!!!!!! What is a Rapala knot?????

[David, aka, "McScruff"]

Yeah, Greg I favor a Rapala knot for smaller spoons. It leaves a loop at the spoons eye, where you can hang a split shot - note I said hang. The weight, when hung from the loop,  shifts the center of gravity so the spoon rides correctly in the water.

[Greg McWilliams]

David, been thinking about adding weight, you might try split shot just above the swival!!!!!

The swival really takes the twist out of the tippet!!!!!!! Be sure if you haven't, to check out the rigging up of spoons in MUSKY's spoonchuckers group!!!!! 

[David, aka, "McScruff"]

I gotta get some of these going, and quit fooling around with my catfish rigs!

[Greg McWilliams]

JB, You need to get them started, Muskie really get the spoon action in the summer and fall !!!!!!!!! These will work !!!!!

One word of caution, use a western style cast, more side arm, I bounce one off my head last night, I think I had an episode of TERRETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JBplusThuy]

Do you fish those under an indicator?

My daughters love making up nail designs on a couple of their mom's cosmetology "nail practice wheels" (I'm sure there's a real name for those things; picture a wagon wheel with a fake nail protruding from the end of each spoke, and no rim). I'm sure they'd be happy to take some fake nails and help daddy make spoonflies :-)