Red Spotted Sunfish......Also caught great numbers in Louisiana bayous earlier this year
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Time to Tidy Up the Tying Desk
Found this guy, belly up behind all the crap on my desk.
High time I get it sorted, I imagine.
Seriously, tied this "Junk Pile Cockroach" yesterday from tying scraps and waste material. Most of the old books include mention of cockroaches as viable baits, and I've tried them. They work.
So I tied up a mimic last season and it also worked. Cast near fallen wood, shore weeds and under branches, the fish surely take it for an easy meal.
There are 3500 species of cockroaches the world, 55 in the US. All are retiring insects, and most live in woods and fields. Sooner or later, they end up in the water....
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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 31, 2014 at 3:48pm
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Carl - thanks. this is a recycled hook.
I strip as many as I keep.
Dick, I can go with that. I'll fish em, then.
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Comment by dick tabbert on December 31, 2014 at 3:35pm
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Me and you friends for sure but never your little insect friend. I Remember when I was in Nan and in the middle of the night you feel one of them huge roaches run acrossed you and believe me I got everybody up on a search and destroy mission. After the mission was complete we could carry on with our nights sleep. Hate them things to no end.
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Comment by carl hendrix on December 31, 2014 at 3:17pm
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I recycle a lot of my stuff to !! no need wasting a good hook on something that doesn't look right!! good loking tye there David
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Mine either, Lucky.
By if the fish will go for em, well I reckon we can be friends!
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Awesome tie McScruff. Glad you got him and not me it's not one of my favorite bugs.
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I do it often, once a week is usual. I have a very small tying station, so I have to make some effort at good housekeeping.
The next version of the JP COCKROACH will sport knotted legs and waist hackle.
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Comment by Mark Stine on December 31, 2014 at 12:41pm
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I just did a clean-up found all kinds of missing stuff! maybe I should do it once a month instead of once a year?
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