theshoreking wrote:Art,
the best imitation has always been the old style amber eel, much better for pipefish eaters than the big black redgill. Try get your hands on some amber rubber (like they use for the flying c)and cut the tail to a long vee point and lash it to a hook. Now heres the thing. The hook has to have a double bend in the long shank. The original hooks were like this but you can bend a long shank hook with a pliers to get the same effect. Add some painted on eyes and away you go. If you had magic heads or plastic veins like rapala lips youcould add these too but not essential if you bend the hook right. This imitation will also nail pollock. They fish well from rocks where you are fishing over kelp beds in particular.
Not really a fly as it aint got any feathers but it will work for you from a fly rod. I will look for some of the hooks and put up a pic for you when I find them.
sk
cortaz wrote:theshoreking wrote:Art,
the best imitation has always been the old style amber eel, much better for pipefish eaters than the big black redgill. Try get your hands on some amber rubber (like they use for the flying c)and cut the tail to a long vee point and lash it to a hook. Now heres the thing. The hook has to have a double bend in the long shank. The original hooks were like this but you can bend a long shank hook with a pliers to get the same effect. Add some painted on eyes and away you go. If you had magic heads or plastic veins like rapala lips youcould add these too but not essential if you bend the hook right. This imitation will also nail pollock. They fish well from rocks where you are fishing over kelp beds in particular.
Not really a fly as it aint got any feathers but it will work for you from a fly rod. I will look for some of the hooks and put up a pic for you when I find them.
sk
JOHN1 wrote:the hook your trying to describe sk sounds like its a mustad 31022D jig hook
theshoreking wrote:cortaz wrote:theshoreking wrote:Art,
the best imitation has always been the old style amber eel, much better for pipefish eaters than the big black redgill. Try get your hands on some amber rubber (like they use for the flying c)and cut the tail to a long vee point and lash it to a hook. Now heres the thing. The hook has to have a double bend in the long shank. The original hooks were like this but you can bend a long shank hook with a pliers to get the same effect. Add some painted on eyes and away you go. If you had magic heads or plastic veins like rapala lips youcould add these too but not essential if you bend the hook right. This imitation will also nail pollock. They fish well from rocks where you are fishing over kelp beds in particular.
Not really a fly as it aint got any feathers but it will work for you from a fly rod. I will look for some of the hooks and put up a pic for you when I find them.
sk
Art,
the hooks I'm talking about are not made any more. They were on the original amber eels - used for pollack and Bass mainly on handlines. I'm sure someone on the site who has been fishin a long time knows the ones I am on about. I will post up a pic of you of one of the hooks in the next few days. They are buried away in a box in the garage.
sk
what do u mean man?cortaz wrote:something just crossed my mind, maybe its because theres been a big increse in Bass numbers,
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