Been tying a fair few of these lately have been mainly using marabou feathers till I stumbled across some packets of bucktail pieces while looking at fish city in Hamilton so I had to oblige in buying some. all these lures are still waiting to be tested on the next weekend we get some fine weather

Steps wrote: Some yrs back ( 5 or 6) I picked up a few random feathers, tinstle etc from the local emporium, then whipped them with a bt of 20lb fluro that was handy, on to soft bait weight. At 1st caught a couple snaps but no where as good as SB or bait. A few months later save Angry fish scootes so decided to try a couple others had tied .. diff colours  tinstle feathers and size...and it was warmer summer weather and it worked.  Thinking back to the 1st attempt it was winter, SBs dont work quit as well in cooler seasons I have found. How used them every now and then with mixed results.  Then the other night on Angry fish he described how he layered the stuff up rather than a simple 'hold all the stuff together in a bunch and whip on' I do think that maybe the thick to make them work far better. Which going on the pic above, is the way to go.

bop strayliner wrote: Oooh, could you make me a couple? 🤗👍🏻

Oooh, could you make me a couple? 🤗👍🏻

I have never tied a fly, or looked into it...
 Just used whippings a snells to put flasher on jig head and even stray line hooks.
 Going on the Big angry fish comments the other evening, its about "layering  up" each different flasher to make work well in the water.
 A simple whiping is not rocket science.. same as to stop a rope end unwinding.
So if say whip on 1st layer...but dont tuck tag un  loop for pull thru... then next layer, winding back up, then next layer wind down then loop thu tag and pull tag up underneath ????
 maybe use braid ??  light FC may give more layer separation..

 Hunter you do this sort of stuff  right? would this work for a person just trying something out?

I do know even tieing up a 2 hook fixed keeper stray line, just cutting putting  flasher, maybe 3 colours under one of the snells is quite time consuming.. but not rocket science..

My flashers for stray line straight under the snell, been doing it like that for a few yrs now... flasher is solid.. so well on that in most cases can reuse it several times.. it when loose a trace of foul it hard to recover
 My ledger flashers are just a simple whip with 20lb fluo...again solid as..
 Did mess with cutting the ledger loops then snell the flasher on with the hook...again worked fine..but prefer the ledger loop cause hangs better.

I did try braid one but was fiddly and hard to tie off as quick and easy... dont have clamps and jigs as you have in the pics.  The fluro can pull up tight , a little stretch, then tuck the tag into the whip loop it seems to hold well, just dont wind to tight otherwise cant get the tag to pull up under the windings .

Somewhere around here I have an original Lefty's Deceiver, given to me by the man himself.

I noticed they were just flies tied on a jig head, and as I had just tied a shady lady squid fly from the pop fleyes book thought I'd try tying one of those on a jig head.

Tzer wrote: Come on Uncle when are likely to see McSkutes on the market, happy to test some for you

Kevin.S wrote: I noticed they were just flies tied on a jig head, and as I had just tied a shady lady squid fly from the pop fleyes book thought I'd try tying one of those on a jig head.

Kevin.S wrote:

This is so cool