The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Annelids
Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
I’ve found these on amazon that work well, come in a 6 pack of different colors and only $6 bucks or so. Here’s a link to the puffer balls
Changing the squirmy tentacle in colors and matching the dubbing to match the tentacle are good options and using the puffer balls material listed in the substitutions, you can tie a good mix of these and they will catch trout, bass, panfish and carp at an impressive rate if you can stomach tying one onto your line :).
Aside from being a great fly to annoy your purist friends with, the squirminator works for a few key reasons. First the tentacle is very pliable and creates a ton of movement in the water. It’s also made of silicone or some gooey material I’m not actually aware of, but it is slightly transparent and similar to tube and plastic lures spin fisherman use when fishing for bass. It’s just a micro version of a crappie critter or something of that nature. This has long been a worthwile strategy for catching fish, and until now, it hasn’t really made it into the fly fishing world mainly for purist reasons. If you are the type that says “Hell! whatever catches fish I’m in” then this fly, my friends is for you.
Dead drift this fly like any normal nymph or as a single fly and dead drift part of the drift with small little twitches to make the fly move. Fish will jump all over it as they suspect its an annelid, wounded baitfish, cranefly larva or just something worth eating in their minds.
On a lake, you may want to reduce the beadhead size so you can get a slow decent and a twitchy retrieve. I plan on fishing this for crappie in a few local ponds I know of and I suspect it should absolutely slay them
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