I wondered where you've been hiding.This chomped fly was sent to me (along with a full Alaska coho fly box) from @Rio Grande King - it wasn't chomped when Tim sent it.......very grateful Tim!
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This fish ate the pink streamer - we'd had so much rain (15" in 24 hours) that there was too much water to wade the creek that drains a large marsh so we fished The Marsh. Interesting place - there were a half dozen outlets that formed one creek (the one too swollen to safely ford). Coho were ascending these channels as the tide came in. This buck had just come up one of the channels leading into the marsh. It was fun to watch the fish jump up the small falls.
I had waded out into the marsh and found a point where the grassy peat dropped off and was able to cast to clear water, every time there was a pulse of fish pushing through there was a good chance for a hookup. My strike to solid hookup ratio was terrible. Most of you know a trout lift doesn't work very often with big, fresh ocean coho (I learned).
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Two coho in MA 10 yesterday were fooled by this fly.View attachment 33015
It is a bendback. Something like the Umpqua xs435 but inherited from an uncle who gave up tying so it’s a mystery.Jake,
Nice looking pattern. Bendback?
Please post up a recipe if you feel up to it.
SF
It is a bendback. Something like the Umpqua xs435 but inherited from an uncle who gave up tying so it’s a mystery.
I’m crappy at fly pattern descriptions, but here goes:
Throat is mcflyfoam, eye is yellow and black model paint, UV resin over the top.
Body is olive bucktail, black bucktail, and white bucktail. A couple of strands of thin crystal flash or lateral scale to make it more sexy.
That was my theory based on the sheer number of them we’ve seen on East MA 9&10 beaches lately.Thanks
I noticed last week that most of the coho I cleaned had small sandlance in them. Your pattern would work well for imitating them.
SF
This little dude
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Caught this big dude ( and several others)
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Up here
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What’s the body material for the euro fly? Outstanding fish.October Caddis time!!!
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It is ice dub rusty brown. It then ribbed with copper brown sm wire.What’s the body material for the euro fly? Outstanding fish.