Warmwater & Saltwater Flies

Samples from upcoming flyfishing book

Most of the flies are not considered typically fresh or saltwater.

Most can be used equally effectively in freshwater or saltwater.

Often the color choice will differ however.

Biobug Frog

With a set of kicking legs and floppy feet, you will have to make smaller frogs than this one or else you will need to read the book to find out how to make a custom fly line to cast it out with the greatest of ease and retrieve it so that both climbs over and dives under lily pads. Of course you know, that it is an absolute killer of huge largemouth bass.

Biobug Minnow

These can be made with or without the spinner and with short or long tails.

Cick on the minnow below to see some recent catches on biobug minnows

Biobug

Biobugs are soft but tough and durable. They have a tough but flexible outer skin. They can be shaped to imitate anything and used with various attached appendages of natural or synthetic materials.

Biobug Dragonfly Nymph

Silicone Chenille Eel

These eels in either curly or straight tails can be fished at any depth--even floaters. They can be made in any color that a plastic worms can and with various glitters. They cast like a dream and murder bass. The book covers a variety of methods and material options for making them. Of course you know they catch plenty of largemouth bass but they are also 'cuda killers as well many other species, especially smaller versions in white.

Poxyflash Spoon

This is a great light landing epoxy flyrod spoon pattern that works great on bass, but it is absolute murder in shallow water redfish, especially when tailing. The book gives a very easy and fast method for making these.

Silicone Flat Shad

Minnow and baitfish patterns work equally well wherever big fish eat little fish.

Crustacea

The silicone/chenille Crustacea pictured above makes a great crayfish in brown and orange, in saltwater yellow or white  make very effective shrimp-like attractor patterns.

Many more patterns are covered in the book. The results of 30 years of fly designing while experimenting with synthetic and natural materials in my former taxidermy workshop in my spare time. Actually, if the truth be known ------- many of you would have gotten your fish mounts back a lot quicker if it were not for this personal obsession.

That's it for now ---- back to work on the book !