its largie time...

[Michael]

....how to tie in and shape the brush head properly...

I'll show you tomorrow night Boet.

[Shamwari]

good stuff...what do think of the sbs....a bit of messing about...

[Ryan]

Hey Chaps,

Saw this topic, so I thought I'd share two baitfish patterns I tied last night.. once again, not the greatest camera shot..

Might do a little more snipping, but the camera does seem to make the fly look slightly bulkier..

[Shamwari]

Do you prefer to use circle hooks instead of the stingers?

[Ryan]

It varies.. I usually like to tie with hooks which have a fairly wide gap. I opted for these circle hooks to prevent getting hooked up or snagged on rocks etc, but landed up tying in a weed guard anyway.

I'm gonna tie up a pattern tonight with a mustad carp hook. Looks a bit like the bass plastics hook. I like the bigger gap due to the bead sitting under the shank.. I hope the above circle hook baitfish patterns will work, considering I have used circle hooks.

Below are some baitfish I tied on different hooks and also using a different technique where one has to stack the mirror image fibres.

[Scythe]

Weedguard on a circle ?

Do you enjoy missing strikes ?

[Ryan]

Weedguard on a circle ?

Do you enjoy missing strikes ?

Weedguard can be removed, not added!

[Ryan]

Some more baitfish profiles.. All worth a try for largies.. Two of them are stacked and the other is layered like the pattern in the TCFF...

[Pipe]

What venues do you guys reckon I could try for Largies, have never tried for them, but would like to! Even better would be if I can join somebody on a trip!

[Gwydion]

These baitfish patterns look flipping great Whos going to show me how to tie up a few of these buggers? Or is anyone going to put up a nice lil sbs?

Ryan that red/orange pattern looks great mate, thats worth a sbs, what ya think?

G