Unfortunately my sister had passed the cockatoo to a new owner and I'd lost my feather source! I still had the bedraggled original fly in my box, tho, and put it on the other day after a veeerry slow morning. I immediately began catching fish while my buddy was still struggling. After a bit, I gave her the fly again to see if that was really the difference, and boom - she also started catching, lol!My husband, my fishing buddy, and I all hit a local lake for stockers today, fishing from our Hobies.
It was slow till I put a specific fly on - I don't even know what to call it - then I quickly picked up a half dozen. Since I only had the one, I passed it to my buddy and she promptly caught several. She passed it to my hubby, and he got a few, also.
Here's the fly. It was tied with shed Moluccan Cockatoo feathers from my sister's domestically bred pet bird (all perfectly legal!)
Name ideas? I think I have more of the feathers somewhere...
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*stock photo, not my sister's actual bird
WOW!!!
I’m sure you saw the backing on that beauty!
Those fish should be jailed for molesting a fly into that shape...Yesterday I hiked into a lake that’s often productive with a black jig fished deep. Not so yesterday. I kicked back onto a shallow flat and had some luck after my friend suggested a change up. Then that quit working. I rerigged my 18’ leader, removed my SeegerCator and tied on a #13 watery olive midge. I had far better strike to hookup ratio without the indicator. The bug:
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