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...

[Greg McWilliams]

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!!!!!!!

[Leo Nguyen]

You are the man!! Woot woot!

[Jen Nayfly]

The warmouth are getting ready to spawn.....proof tomorrow on one of your spoonflies. INGENiOUS!

[John Sheehan]

Fantastic Greg! You 're an innovator .Time for you to be featured with your tecnique in In Fisherman magazine !

[Greg McWilliams]

Blue Gill and warmouth taken on the SPOONFLY!!!!!!! Ok, now it is a go to FLY!!!!!!!

[Leo Nguyen]

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.

[jim cosgrove]

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?

[Jen Nayfly]

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.

[jim cosgrove]

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.

[Greg McWilliams]

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!!!!!