Rattle Flies
I added this fly to the end of my last post on the International Fly Tying Symposium, but I wanted to do a separate post on it just to call everyone’s attention to this novel, and very effective technique. Rattle flies always rattled me a bit as a tier because they required a rattle chamber with necessary modification of the fly’s body. Theo brought along some of his new rattle flies, and when we fished for stripers, he out fished me 2.5 to 1. I am certain it was because of the rattle he had added. Not only that, but the rattle is so say to make that it defies conventional wisdom on rattle lures. It offers the possibility of all sorts of rattle modifications to all sorts of flies.
Theo simply adds a mono loop under the fly and hangs beads on it–pick your color, pick your weight, pick your ear size, pick your bead material. I am already seeing modifications to the mono loop, too. The possibilities boggle the mind. You can be certain that I will tying plenty of bead-rattle flies for the upcoming season.
Enough said!
The stripers loved Theo’s bead-rattle Deep Clouser.