One love, one fly

noles · Post by **noles** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:36 am

I am a big fan of topwater lures, so I will have to go with a crease fly (my version of course).

BearsFan · Post by **BearsFan** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:10 am

Snookfinatic wrote:I also like the Dupre spoon fly.

Is that even really a fly?

finatic · Post by **finatic** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:19 pm

BearsFan wrote:
Snookfinatic wrote:I also like the Dupre spoon fly.
Is that even really a fly?

Yes, The first original spoon fly invented by Jim Dupre back in the day AKA "Dupre spoon fly"
Before your time! Only us grumpy old men remember!

BearsFan · Post by **BearsFan** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:30 pm

So every spoon fly since is a spoon?

GILs_GONE_WILD · Post by **GILs_GONE_WILD** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:43 pm

I ain't gettin' into these "fly fishing" semantics.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. HA!

islander · Post by **islander** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:24 pm

GILs_GONE_WILD wrote:I ain't gettin' into these "fly fishing" semantics. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. HA!

We're gonna need a decision here, Gil. We got one that says it is a fly, and one vote for THAT AIN'T A FLY. You'll have to be the tie breaker...

BearsFan · Post by **BearsFan** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:03 pm

What does you t-shirt say?

finatic · Post by **finatic** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:30 pm

BearsFan wrote:So every spoon fly since is a spoon?

Is an epoxy shrimp a fly? C'mon dude don't get all super purist/elitist on me. You and the majority of fly chuckers are "Bi" anyway. (Bi=fly/spin)

Jim Dupre was the originator of the epoxy spoon fly. A spoon fly is a spoon fly and a spoon is a spoon. Two different things.

GILs_GONE_WILD · Post by **GILs_GONE_WILD** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:21 pm

islander wrote:
GILs_GONE_WILD wrote:I ain't gettin' into these "fly fishing" semantics. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. HA!
We're gonna need a decision here, Gil. We got one that says it is a fly, and one vote for THAT AIN'T A FLY. You'll have to be the tie breaker...

OK islander ... I'll "man-up". ha! If it's too light to cast with a spinning reel (without adding a sinker or "casting bubble") and you can easily enough cast it with a fly rod then it's a fly. Period .... end of story.

GILs_GONE_WILD · Post by **GILs_GONE_WILD** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:29 pm

BearsFan wrote:What does you t-shirt say?

"Shut up and fish!!!"

I don't care if you mash a bread ball on a 5/0 hook and hang it over a bridge and at the end of a 2wt fly rod and you're watchin' a big ol' red and white "bobber" (not stike indicator

) sittin' back pouring down Old Milwaukees in your face. If that suits the angler and he/she wants to call that "fly fishing", then so be it. haha!

Just fish!!

finatic · Post by **finatic** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:09 pm

GILs_GONE_WILD wrote:
islander wrote:
GILs_GONE_WILD wrote:I ain't gettin' into these "fly fishing" semantics. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. HA!
We're gonna need a decision here, Gil. We got one that says it is a fly, and one vote for THAT AIN'T A FLY. You'll have to be the tie breaker...
OK islander ... I'll "man-up". ha! If it's too light to cast with a spinning reel (without adding a sinker or "casting bubble") and you can easily enough cast it with a fly rod then it's a fly. Period .... end of story.

So, if I cast a beetle spin with a fly rod that's considered a fly?
C'mon seriously I thought the fly chuckers had more standards than that?

BearsFan · Post by **BearsFan** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:59 am

Snookfinatic wrote: You are "Bi" anyway.

It was college.

finatic · Post by **finatic** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:24 am

BearsFan wrote:
Snookfinatic wrote: You are "Bi" anyway.
It was college.

Too many long nights at Posey's?

Capt Bob J. · Post by **Capt Bob J.** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:43 pm

My favorite go-to fly is a 2 1/2 "white deceiver with chartruese down the middle and a few strands of red flash. Simple, and it catches a lot of fish.

GILs_GONE_WILD · Post by **GILs_GONE_WILD** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:56 pm

Snookfinatic wrote: So, if I cast a beetle spin with a fly rod that's considered a fly?
C'mon seriously I thought the fly chuckers had more standards than that?

"Standards" went out the window with horsehair and silk fly lines and bamboo rods. Graphite rods have taken over where bamboo and fiberglass left off and PVC coated fly lines, foam, rubber legs, synthetics, spinners and diving lips for tying flies are the hot items today. ha!!!

Call it what you want but a clouser ain't nothin' but a jig with the weight moved back from the hook eye and eighth of an inch or so.

islander · Post by **islander** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:55 pm

GILs_GONE_WILD wrote: Call it what you want but a clouser ain't nothin' but a jig with the weight moved back from the hook eye and eighth of an inch or so.

Dem's sparring words there, Gil...