Alabama Rig Fly

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1 hour ago, dpitt said:

I'm planning on Taneyfest, will bring it down and you can give it a try if I can find it

 

Let us know how it goes.   Unfortunately I won’t be there.   I’m heading to the Florida keys for 2 weeks.  😁

[BilletHead]

3 hours ago, dpitt said:

I think so, you can mount lead dumbell eyes at the joint  or on the point fly to add a little more weight.  I'm planning on Taneyfest, will bring it down and you can give it a try if I can find it

 

Bring it Mr. Pitt I would like to see it please. See you there.

[dpitt]

3 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

I could see that trailer getting all kinds of tangled up in the rest of the mini flies.  Just not conducive to fly-casting.

I tied two versions one with flexible wire, and one with rigid wire,  the flexible wire can foul, but  centrifigul force mostly kept it seperated, and I think when stripped through the water they will unfoul.  The rigid wire version is basically foul proof. 

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3 hours ago, dpitt said:

  The rigid wire version is basically foul proof. 

 You should send that to me for field testing 😂 

[tjm]

8 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

I could see that trailer getting all kinds of tangled up in the rest of the mini flies.  Just not conducive to fly-casting.

The one in the article/video? How can the trailer move if it's at the end of a tube? the 40# mono supported by UV resin should pretty much stay separate too, I would think, the 40# mono I have is rather stiff; and with the none of the teasers containing a hook, entanglement seems unlikely to me. 

The writer said-

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Dagur ties both a 6-inch version and a 12-inch version of the Sweet Home Alabama. He uses a 4-weight and a 6-weight rod for the smaller pattern and fishes the 12-inch rig on an 8-10 weight rod. I was able to throw the 6-inch version on a 7-weight rod 60 feet with a crosswind.

[Quillback]

14 hours ago, BilletHead said:

Bring it Mr. Pitt I would like to see it please. See you there.

Yes, it would be neat to see.  Can you toss it on a spinning rig?

[Gavin]

That kinda reminds me of my old spawn sack fly pattern. I tied 8-10 peach glowballs on short individual monofilament strands and lashed all the strands to a single wooly bugger hook wrapped with ice sparkle chenille. I was a novelty, but it did catch some stocked trout in muddy county park lakes. The could SEE if for sure.

[tjm]

Back east I could fish five flies on a cast and I set up dropper wets to resemble a cluster of fry, it caught a few fish but a single fly or three spaced much farther apart seemed to catch more. I do like his use of the tube and the stiff mono with differing fly weights to keep the shape and relative orientation during the retrieve. It looks like largemouth or pike bait to me.