Your title was all the click bait I needed. Very creative pattern, and deadly indeed. I think it's excellent. No flack should be given. Much of our sport is about mimicking what fish actually eat and prey on. Well done. The title of the thread and the pattern tricked me (hook, line.. and no sinker). You would have got flack for using a barrel sinker.

 

You had me at topwater coho. Is there resin over the flash braid? Looks awesome.

 

yes, Thin closed cell sheet foam (folded and shaped) with a strip of lagartun tin down the lateral line.
Over that is the head made from tin tape, then the flash tubing over the top with flash hair on the belly and spine, then covered with UV resin and the saltwater stinger hook embedded inside. Kinda a process, if it pays a nice chrome salty coho, it was worth the effort.

 

They use a very similar fly on Lake Akan in Hokkaido, Japan for trout and char. Their version is floating and they fish it static, no retrieve. I fished there in June and everyone was using the same pattern.

 

that’s awesome! I plan to fish this in tidal water just with a little twitching

 

You form a bend in it for even more life like action!

 

Folks love a floating pattern like this on the Rapid and other waterways here in Maine during the May / June smelt run. A fabulous, creative and irreverent contribution to the 'pages. I'd love to see that get annihilated by a coho.

 

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Probably going to take some flack for this one.
I did use fly tying materials… and without owning a vise, some patterns are tricky.
For top water coho, a wounded baitfish pattern. View attachment 474817
View attachment 474815 In the water, floats hook down every time

As you rightly should! Damn that is realistic! Is that corsair tubing?

I used the Clouser floating minnow as a wounded baitfish pattern for lake trout and pike - fairly large like a 2/0 B10S. That definitely works. But this is so realistic, it's kinda scary.

 

not sure, sir
It’s some kinda cheap hobby store tube
I’m thrifty when it comes to saltwater tying

 

Awesome. More of a fly than the jigs 90% of trout anglers use these days.

 

Very cool.

 

we went for landlocked salmon in grand lake stream , maine a few years back . largely unsuccessful , due to a number of reasons . as we were packing up to leave we ran into some old timers who checked our flies and informed us that we should have been using " a cubby special " . this according to none other than cubby himself . he gave us a couple of them . i haven't been back there , but these are successful in other situations . particularly when alewives are being washed over a tailwater dam . this dace is rough , they don't seem to care .

love yours tim , you are on a hot streak !

 

we went for landlocked salmon in grand lake stream , maine a few years back . largely unsuccessful , due to a number of reasons . as we were packing up to leave we ran into some old timers who checked our flies and informed us that we should have been using " a cubby special " . this according to none other than cubby himself . he gave us a couple of them . i haven't been back there , but these are successful in other situations . particularly when alewives are being washed over a tailwater dam . this dace is rough , they don't seem to care . View attachment 474894
love yours tim , you are on a hot streak !

we went for landlocked salmon in grand lake stream , maine a few years back . largely unsuccessful , due to a number of reasons . as we were packing up to leave we ran into some old timers who checked our flies and informed us that we should have been using " a cubby special " . this according to none other than cubby himself . he gave us a couple of them . i haven't been back there , but these are successful in other situations . particularly when alewives are being washed over a tailwater dam . this dace is rough , they don't seem to care . View attachment 474894
love yours tim , you are on a hot streak !

Looks like a fantastic pattern, thanks for the idea of this

 

This is one of the best looking baitfish patterns I’ve seen. Cannot imagine it not working. Going to give it go myself.

 

One could argue it’s more of a “fly” than many patterns we fish in the sense it’s an actually imitation of something. Last I looked my green butt skunk doesn’t look very much like anything swimming the river 😂

 

Wow! Love it