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I get this question asked a lot on video and live presentations. You are fishing this mostly on a sink tip swinging the fly in the current on a tight line not stripping it so the current is giving it a lot of action and even if it did ride upside down there is nothing more tempting to the lazy bull trout than an injured baitfish. If you are stripping a fly with dumbell eyes slowly in slack water then that would be different.

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Thank you. All the music I use are composed by me as it say in the intro "Flies & Music by ..", It's been a longtime, I have to look to see if I can find it as sometimes I just improvise for the sake of the video. I have to look in my folders and hopefully find it but in the mean time I have lots of music on UA-cam of different styles, my website is andrestepanian.com.

No, to big for beach fishery here and marabou doesn't hold up well in salt. Let me know if you do and catch one over there.

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Yes, the reason is I will fish a floating line with a long leader or at most a clear tip when the coho are sitting in a very clear pool, it rides more straight in the slow pools when you are sight casting to coho that are sitting still water, especially the really long slow pulls, the down eye kind of wobbles and rotates as you are stripping it.If you are swing it in a faster moving run on a sink tip then it doesn't make a difference say for example at fisherman's park on the Squamish or even lower Squamish where the Mamquam flow is.Thanks!

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Thanks .Yes very simple pattern.

Thanks. My main target will be coho.

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It's temperature dependent, as soon as you get 10 days or so of consistent double digit temps you will see them pop.The first place you want to check it the Stave river as it is very shallow and the sun warms up the the river bed sooner than other systems.

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Yes I do have other flies like this using those material. Always testing new material that might entice the fish to strike or reflect light differently. The braid is stiffer like KF so it doesn't collapse when it gets wet and when you fray it out it looks messy just like the real euphausid. As far as the body this hootchie is clear UV not to be mistaken with just the clear ones. Nature has made this crustation luminous under low light conditions as they mostly show and our seen by the fish, if you shine the UV light you will see what the fish see and the other reason is the rubbery texture which feels more life like as they bite into it and not spit it out fast. All my flies are designed for North shore Ambleside fishery which is the hardest place to catch a coho in N.America, very tight lipped, picky fish that don't eat at the estuary.By all means try different materials that is what I do every year and test them as I don't sell flies that I don't catch fish on them.Thanks for the support.

@@Frenzyflies.thank you for the response, that was very informative! You mention in your description you fish this fly with floating line and intermittent twitches. Would it just be like a lifeless presentation in the current? Or kinda of like a slow strip w twitches and pause

@@THFlyFishing You have to vary the speed and fish the fly in it's natural state. I don't know if I know you from when I worked at Pacific Angler but I suggest taking the Fly fishing beach course next year, very intense 3 hour course, a lot of information that I have gathered the last 40 years on the beach.

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Yes as well as swinging, I fish these patterns on the Squamish river as in August the river is pretty colored up. I fish them on a floating line with a 12ft leader and as they roll mostly on the surface when they are moving up you can actually strip them and they will follow and eat it avoiding snags with sink tips.

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Hi Alex, the braid is UV Frost lagartun and it glows underneath which the natural crustacean does at low light, if you had nothing it would not be the same, plus the Lagartun braid in Frost is one of the best materials I have ever used for my beach flies, not to be mistaken for pearl braid .Another option I did but this is way better was to wrap silver tinsel back in the day. Good luck.

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Thank you. Tie a few you will see how it looks in the water.

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The dumbell is too small to do that and and usually I am swinging these downstream early season when the fry are just coming off the bottom, the fry at that stage are disoriented still before they are fully hatched and coming down in small patches close to the surface the which by then I fish my epoxy fry.

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That's great!Happy to hear that.

Yes it takes a lot of practice. You can always flatten the rachis with flat nose pliers so it is not round and stops the feather from rolling which is a common practice when tying classics.

Thank you. Yeah it's a great fly I fished it on Sunday (Oct23) on the Vedder river and got bunch of chums and hooked 5 coho.

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Thanks Jacob.. yes it is going to be good, see you then.

Yes, suspended close to the bottom as they are mostly in colder temps before it warms up a little.