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What weight rod are you using. For larger flies on my 9 or 10 wt rod and intermediate or sinking line I make a simple leader. 30,40 or 50 lb section about 4-5' long with a double surgeons loop to the fly line, then blood knot to blood knot to 20 lb fluro about 3-4' long If you fishing big flies like beasts and slammers, you can just use a straight piece of 40 or 50 about 5-6 long
I do save what's not used, I take the usable materials from my little fly tying waste basket attached to the vice and use it for what we call garbage flies. Where i take the scraps and tie something with it as to not waste anything. Obviously not everything can be use, like off cuts of bucktail etc, but the synthetic material you can use.
The name of the material is Sf blend or Steve Farrar blend, essentially slinky fiber blended with angel hair. And no well by tying more of these soon on stream.
Striper just moving into the SF Bay this last weekend I live about 30 miles north at the end of the san Pablo Bay in a great choke point the Carquinez Straight so my goal is to catch them on the fly this year coming in now and Back out to the ocean and same thing again in October november closures type fly's
Nice thats awesome, I've never had to chance to fish for delta stripers out west. Very cool fishery, not that different from our East Coast fishery. Good luck this season, go get em on the fly!
Kind of like the trout streamers with a marabou throat, idk I just like it. Might give a little additional action as well as a whiter belly. Don't know if it actually helps haha
Hi Mike. I like your video and your talent. Squimpish hair is something I picked up at the show in Edison NJ but haven’t tied with it yet. Now I have some insight of how to do it effectively. Thanks to you and your friends at Squimpish hair. Very cool stuff.