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Punching out foam disk to tie the Sneaky Duck Fly

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Comment by carl hendrix on January 7, 2014 at 9:58pm: that's as neat as it gets!! cool idea !

Comment by jim cosgrove on January 7, 2014 at 8:46pm: nice fly don ,just like you i am a big fan of foam and don't have the patience for deer hair.a nice twist on the diver style.gonna really go after the bass withtthe flyrod this year and for sure gonna make a few of these.like your videos too don,got some nice water down there

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 7, 2014 at 6:15pm: Im reminded of another pattern when I see this - I had to scrounge through the dusty McScruff archives to find it, but there it was: The Sneaky Pete.

Now a kind of defunct "classic," the Sneaky Pete was really a hard foam or balsa popper body turned around BACKWARDS on the hook. It also dips and dives beneath the surface but I doubt it makes a decent bubble trail like Sneaky Duck does. And it is NOT fish enticing soft foam.

Roger Duckworth had this to say about it: "

"I have worked several fish right next to me and lost them when I tried to grab their lips; they weren’t hooked, at all, but were clamped down tight on that soft foam fly!"

Comment by Donald Schmotzer on January 7, 2014 at 6:04pm: I tie a lot of flies using foam. Very inexpensive, colorful and buoyant. I never could get any good with spinning deer hair.......always comes out looking like an uneven rat's nest. Another nice feature of the Sneaky Duck......When you pull it, it goes under the water and when you stop it pops back up. Leaves a nice bubble trail too. Tied on a size 4 hook, I almost always get a hook-up when a Bass grabs this thing. (fished with a 5 or 6 wt rod.) The smaller sneaky duckling (tied on a size 10 and fished on a 3 or 4wt rod acts very much the same way. It seems to attract the larger gills and a lot of juvenile Bass. Anyone using this fly, please post pictures of the fish you catch.............Don in SC

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 7, 2014 at 5:41pm: A "slider" pattern, but from common foam, etc.

Sublime!

Comment by Allen Morgan on January 7, 2014 at 5:01pm: I like how the offset glueing method gives the segmentation. Neat Fly!

Comment by james bluto gillette on January 7, 2014 at 4:46pm: very nice fly don I like it

Comment by Leo Nguyen on January 7, 2014 at 3:31pm: That's so neat! That caliber is the same size as my eyelet punch tool. Way too many flies to try out.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 7, 2014 at 12:20pm: Annnnnnddddddd - I found your instruction over at uuff.com:

http://ultralightflyfishing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=6196

Donald, you are keeping me inspired, sir.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on January 7, 2014 at 12:11pm: That is very nice Don - I like that.

I got hooks

I got cartridge cases

I got foam

must know how to make this.