nice tips.. new to fly.. we have bone fish at my place caught couple and mostly small but have some at 20 inch big on my baitcaster ... i'm looking to get a 6wt setup since ill be fishing on my small electric boat on the flats kinda want to stick to a lightweight set up... flats we have are 3 to 10 to 15 up to 20+ foot... our weather is warm and spring like all year in california..... what fly line and leader/tippet size/ length do you recommend for my type of location? also i will be making crabs/ shrimps and closure flies that will likely have small eye weights on them and looking to use 2/4/6 size hooks... i been learning a lot of tying flies from you and now it's time for me to learn on a fly rod .. thank you
Honestly every Location is different. I believe most people are fishing a 6-8wt for bonefish though. I think the wind situation will dictate things more. I would think that you would want an 8wt+ in heavy winds and a 6-7wt in light wind. Heavier rods cut through the wind better but are tiresome to cast all day long. I’m not super well versed in bonefish fishing though to be honest
What I do for hair or bucktail wings is I do 2 stacks, a smaller one first and one to cover that smaller one. Still looks tapered and full enough but less slippage 😅.
Sweet looking fly. I do have a question about the dumbbell chain. Can any style dumbbell chain(ceiling fan chain, key ring chain and etc) work for this or does the chain have to be specifically for fly tying?
@@tentingaroundflorida oh yeah. On the plus side, i have a whole bunch of the chains here at the house already lol. That’s why i was asking. I am a newbie to fly tying. Thanks again bud.
Yea any will work. Some are made out of light metals others out of heavier. Try for the heavier ones. Like tenting said, hardware store ones are good, usually out of stainless steel which tends to be heavier than the lighter alloys they use in some necklaces and such.
No it will not. The fibers are not dense enough and tapered too much. There is a bit of hollowness and thickness in bucktail that isn’t in calf tail. And the varying lengths of fur on a bucktail would make for a very odd looking crazy Charlie. So can you use it? Yes. Will it turn out the same? No. Will it work just as well? That’s up to you and what your looking for.
Yes actually it would. I believe when people started targeting carp with a fly rod they were using flats flies. Granted now they have stuff made specifically for carp but this probably would still work. I’d change up the colors to more a crayfish color profile. But to be honest there are some other carp specific patterns that might work better, it’s up to you
