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Tying Instruction : 1. Wrap entire shank of hook with thread 2. Fix orange bucktail to top of hook shank starting 3 hook-eye spaces back from eye. Coat with Hard as Nails 3. Gather 6 saddle hackles and attach just in front of bucktail, 3 to each side. Don't worry too much about size, although the length should be similar to the bucktail 4. Add flash on top of the hackles 5. Tie in yellow bucktail wing. I start with the hook inverted, tying in a small amount of bucktail 3 ¼ in long to bottom of hook. I then tie in a similar amount on each side, then a final amount to the top. The idea is to get an even distribution of bucktail all around the fly, preserving a small head. 6. Complete the head with epoxy (or two coats Hard as Nails), orange stick-on eyes, and final coat of lacquer. Note : Small sharks, barracuda, jacks and larger snapper all seem to like this fly. I am wary enough about a 3 or 4-foot shark that I won't cast to them without me being in the safety of a boat. Furthermore, since their skeleton is cartilaginous and not bone, they are malleable enough to eat their tail (or so it seems) and one should never try to tail a shark. Since my experience with them is limited, I would rather cut them off than try to rescue a fly-usually when these fighting machines are brought to bay in a shallow flat, there's not much left to the fly anyway. Barracuda, for whatever reason, don't seem to have any propensity to attack, even when hooked, and I'm comfortable fishing for them while wading. Of course one never wants to get your hand anywhere around a wounded cuda's mouth. |
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