I had one particular yellow and white clouser that I started fishing last fall and continued using this spring.
It caught a lot of cutts. It got to the point where there was very little bucktail left on the belly section. Lots of the wing bucktail was broken or missing and the krystal flash was pretty straggly. The palmer chenille on was belly was pretty much gone and finally came unwrapped. The orange Ice Dub gills were just down to orange thread.
Normally I'd just toss it, but I decided to refurb it last night. I added new bucktail and palmer chenille to the belly and new gills. It will be interesting to see if it still has the same magic after the repair.
Anyone else refurb or repair a good luck fly and how did it fish after you did so?
SF
It caught a lot of cutts. It got to the point where there was very little bucktail left on the belly section. Lots of the wing bucktail was broken or missing and the krystal flash was pretty straggly. The palmer chenille on was belly was pretty much gone and finally came unwrapped. The orange Ice Dub gills were just down to orange thread.
Normally I'd just toss it, but I decided to refurb it last night. I added new bucktail and palmer chenille to the belly and new gills. It will be interesting to see if it still has the same magic after the repair.
Anyone else refurb or repair a good luck fly and how did it fish after you did so?
SF