hurler01 wrote:Nice goin charlie, tied up a few myself, diawl bach for mullet and trout and a shrimp. I'll get a few photos up and maybe tie up some more in a while. I've a few wiggle fins that look to be the same job as the petitjeans. Although they are more suited to trolling for pike with the fly rod. Casting with the wiggle fins on is pretty difficult due to the air resistance. The wiggle fins give more movement to soft plastic worms on a jighead.
cheers Martin
a few decent flies there man, sure to catch, very nice. did u copy Davy McPhail's Diawl Bach..? i have tied it myself and used it for rainbows, it was deadly! its a classic wee fly and apparently brilliant in rivers for trout too
'wigglefins', interesting, never heard of them and have just googled them, jees they look the part. they have a different action compared to the petitjean head but they look deadly. they look somewhat easier to use/apply too, hey i might have to look into getting a few of those. mind you, yeah i can imagine that they would be very difficult to cast alright. maybe i could try small ones to begin with, lets see. thanks for that
btw, i tested those flies that i tied with the petitjean heads today. they sent a shimmer down the body of the fly alright but only a small one, they were a bit small for these particular flies i reckon and so i need bigger magic heads. can imagine the same issue too thought - that the bigger the magic head then the more difficult it will be to cast