Creepy Crawly Redfish Fly

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captken
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Creepy Crawly Redfish Fly

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I've been tying and fishing this fly for years. I've made a few modifications over the years and this is the result.

I use an Eagle Claw O'shaughnessy hook. These are cheap hooks, very sharp, short shank, fairly large eye. No offset and wide bend. I would not hesitate to flip one to a Tarpon. I sometimes use an Eagle Claw 413 jig hook and Clouser or Bead chain eyes. I really like the EC 413 hook but I have to order them because nobody stocks them.

Here is the hook (bottom) and the same hook I modified by bending the eye down slightly to help keep the fly point up on retrieve.
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Tie in the snazzle and weed guard. 50# mono in this case. I'll trim it to roper length later.
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Here are the rest of the materials. Brown Ice Chenille for the body, unwaxed monocord, silicone bass skirt pads.
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Tie in skirt pad as shown. I let a little less than half extend forward of the hook eye.
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Tie in Ice Chenille at the bend of the hook then advance tying thread to the eye of the hook.
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Wrap Ice Chenille to the eye of the hook and secure with tying thread. Add head cement (I use Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails)
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Finished fly.
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Two finished flies.
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Very quick tie, easy, very effective. Can be weighted but I seldom weight them.
Short strips make this fly come alive. I don't have a fly in my box that can match the
action of this one. It works on Bass, Trout, Snook and Redfish.
Life is too short to catch little fish.

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fishboy
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Re: Creepy Crawly Redfish Fly

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Thanks for the tip. I have been meaning to get into fly tring. It's just a matter of time...

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chris21
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Re: Creepy Crawly Redfish Fly

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very unique looking fly, I also tie my own flies, mostly for peacock bass, snakeheads and other exotic fishes.
There's no such thing as too much bait!!

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Albacized
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Re: Creepy Crawly Redfish Fly

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Thanks a lot for this. I know you said you seldom add weight - but when you do, is it via lead wire on the shank or with dumbell eyes?

Edit***Oops, just reread and saw the 'clouser eyes' and 'beadhead' comment..thanks

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