Roaring River Black(magic) Beetle

[timsfly]

http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P3160022.flv

[Kansas Fly Fisher]

Excellent video Tim! Thanks for the pattern.

John

[Phil Lilley]

Cool- didn't know photobucket did vidoe.

I want to too.....

[mbgrulz]

Are the beetles fishing good right now? i haven't had much luck on top so far, but i attributed that to the high/fast water.

[WebFreeman]

You couldn't wait a couple weeks!? Now everybody will have them.

I'm dragging the fam down during spring break, thursday I think. Do you ever use beetles as an indicator w/ a dropper underneath? Nice video, too.

[catman]

I tried them yesterday and they didn't work for me, I went to a Elk Hair Caddis with 7X and thumped them just below the surface once the Caddis got wet and submurged just a little (with 6X there were looks but NO hits). It was COLD and WINDY for sure. There were lot and lots of people there for sure. Spring breakers are at RR.....

[timsfly]

Been a lot of trout caught on beetles already this year, sat. cold and rainy they didn't work as well, but today it is nicer and people are buying them pretty quick, one fellow bought 2 this morning and came up at noon and bought 3 more and just left a few minutes ago with 4 more of the black beetles, he is catching a lot of fish on them today, I have sold a lot of beetles the past week, I caught a few on the last week.

[jscheetz]

Yep - for me the more it warmed up that day the better the beetles did -

JS

[zsmith62]

Gonna be camping down at RR wednesday, so tied up some beetles too, I do them the same way, but I dub in some peacock black ice dub under the foam.

[timsfly]

I'll bet those will work just as well, there are a lot of ways to dress the beetle. I tie peacock in for the belly sometimes, but it isn't as durable as some of the shiny new dubbings and mylar tinsels.