Bombs and Butterfly Peacocks
February 28, 2008
The power outage that rippled north from Turkey Point on Tuesday did not slow down the peacock bass fishing. I also got the chance to test a version of the bass fly bendback tied with a Gamakatsu bass hook. I couldn’t get it to work with any weight whatsoever but got it to swim decently with an expoy head and a long length of super hair. Both largemouth and peacock bass hit it, so that was encouraging, but I’d like to see someone with some aptitude at the vise give it a go.
Did you find that long lost one, or make up another fly?
How do you want it to swim, Pete?
All new. I was surprised at how well it swam in along those shallow shelves in the canals, and through lily pads and whatnot. I got caught up more on the Albright knot at the fly line to leader connection than on the fly. The real problem was hooking fish after the strike. I had to leave the tail long to get any balance–I tried to match it to the size of a small bass assassin–and a lot of times the fish hit that and not the hook. And driving the hook home is a lot different, as well.
Hey Daytripper, basically when I was retreiving it that it swam straight and didn’t list from side to side or flop on its side. The one above did that but jigged on the stripped pause–up and down–like a clouser. This making any sense? Do you have any inclination to tie with bass hooks? You’ve been tying some great flies on your site.