had an idea to use a hairpin for a stinger... these are hot roller pins.
they are not the exact ones i was looking for but they are very similar ( the ones i wanted are straight round metal these are woven ) 100 2" pins and 75 3" pins for $8
Sweet , we WILL strike back!!!!!
You take our saddle hackles ?? Well we'll take your hairpins!!!!!!
Great idea guys , heard of people using these . The pics have helped to make it clearer what guys are using. I'll be switching for sure!!!
On a side note and not to hi jack but do people prefer the eye to point up or down!!! I tie mine pointing up however wonder if pointing down would increase the " diving " action???
Again great idea and money saver , I hate cutting expensive hooks.
I frequently use Loop double salmon hooks with down eye for salmon fishing back home in scandinavia and I really like how they swim. I do think they have a bit of diving to them. However you have to use a guiding knot and these are smaller hooks, so I don't really know how a shank would behave...
hahaah...thats exactly what i told the girl at the counter... but yeah, i tie mine "eye facings up" and if i add a barbell eye it goes on the underside to help it swim upright
Hit your local NAPA auto parts store and get the biggest 'Cotter Pins/keys' you can get your hands on. These things will sink like a rock. Not an original idea, came from JD Jones.
Everyone needs to PM/E-mail him and get his butt back on the board. A wealth of info .... even if he just uses a Skagit head 12 months of the year.:roll:
I've tried cotter pins from the hardware store, and I've found that they won't hold a clinch knot at all. I suppose I could tie them on with a perfection loop or similar knot, but then it seems that's kind of redundant on an intruder-style fly and not easy to tie that knot on those flies, either.
Could anyone post a video or photo-sequence of these hairpins being tied into flies? I'd like to see how the stinger is added, and how the body building goes along with such a configuration.
The earliest sequence of pictures shows detailed steps of the stinger loop construction to the shank, and later the rear post & wing, then the body, then the front wing construction.
This particular pattern will be being sent out to those speypagers in the Winter (steelhead) Fly Swap - Take II (second serving) for in-river testing!, and I will be testing the same on summer nookies in '14
I have BOTH types of hair pins shown in the pictures. I prefer the ones that Speyducer sent me though the speypages delivery service. The woven ones are fairly soft in comparison
can you buy these LJ Professional hair pins in the states? i could only find them available in the UK. I found some Amish-made ones in Pennsylvania that are $1.86 per dozen, so that's a hair over $.15 per pin. Cheap compared to shanks still spendy compared to the LJ pros that are $0.01 per pin.
Amazon (us) do sell them, but only in small packs of either 12 or 24 pins for ~$8 or so.
The bulk (commercial) packs of 500 pins seem to be only available via uk seller webpages & the big auction site (.co.uk), for about US$17 per pack excluding postage.
Find a friend from the UK and have them re-shipped is easiest, avoids import fee's and duties. I ordered 1500 of the 3" long straight pins. Paying for the pins,
shipping to my friend and shipping to me set me back $86, .5 cents per pin. I then sell 500 or so to a buddy to make back some of my investment as I think 1000 is enough, and voila, more shanks then I will ever know what to do with.
I saved this image of these sweet looking shanks to my iPhone while browsing the mulitwebs in an Ambionic state.
Now I can't remember where the hell I found them.
Does anyone recognize these things?
Does anyone know where to buy some of these?
I love the taper and bend of the loop.
Super sexy shanks.
Tanks…
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