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SPOONFLY FIELD TEST

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!!!!!!

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Comment by Greg McWilliams on March 26, 2012 at 9:35am: John, The technique is "BROTHER MODICA'S" it is just now I have a way to incorperate to the FLY ROD!!!!! But thank sfor the COMLEMENT!!!!!!!

Comment by Leo Nguyen on March 26, 2012 at 9:23am: You are the man!! Woot woot!

Comment by Jen Nayfly on March 26, 2012 at 9:00am: The warmouth are getting ready to spawn.....proof tomorrow on one of your spoonflies. INGENiOUS!

Comment by John Sheehan on March 26, 2012 at 6:36am: Fantastic Greg! You 're an innovator .Time for you to be featured with your tecnique in In Fisherman magazine !

Comment by Greg McWilliams on March 26, 2012 at 4:53am: Blue Gill and warmouth taken on the SPOONFLY!!!!!!! Ok, now it is a go to FLY!!!!!!!

Comment by Leo Nguyen on March 18, 2012 at 7:21pm: David, best idea yet. A trailing slow sink presentation behind the float, maybe with a 12" leader, or it can act as a trailer presentation behind a poppper.

Comment by jim cosgrove on March 18, 2012 at 6:09pm: i gonna get som prototypes made up.going to so ill in a few weeks the lake is deep and steep on one end and shallow and weedy on the other.so i will make a few types.jb weld is great stuff isit paintable?

Comment by Jen Nayfly on March 18, 2012 at 6:04pm: Another thought for adding weight for flyrodders would be to tie on a tungsun bead with your loop knot when you tie the spoon on.

Comment by jim cosgrove on March 18, 2012 at 5:58pm: greg before i saw what you were up to i strated tinkering with some spoons also.for the fly rod and ultralight.i think musky's fishing real deep .i know tournament guys who fish those lakes up there and they fish deepbeen to lake geneva when i was a kid and remember gill beds deeper than 10 feet.i am trying to get a nice flutter on the drop and little wobble on the retrieve.

Comment by Greg McWilliams on March 18, 2012 at 5:56pm: I can see adding weight if you are not using a fly rod!!!! They would be difficult to cast without it!!! They do sink quite nice!!!!!!

Might us J. B. Weld to attach to the hook instead of epoxy!!!!!!! That would attach to the nail and add weight!!!!!