There are two lines of thought on making bugs that catch fish. Some tie the bugs to sorta look like the bug they want to fish with. Fish aren't too smart and that is really good enough. However there is another group of fly tiers that fish with bugs that are realistic looking.
I know several people that do this and their bugs are just unbelievable. They are just so realistic looking and they also are tough. They will hold up to getting cast back and forth in the air as well as getting wet and getting mauled by fish.
I thought it would be interesting to show some pictures to gardeners of some of the bugs that these guys make. They are unbelievable in their looks as well as being fishable. I got most of these pictures off of flytyingforum.com if anyone wants to check them out.
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Seeing this in a fishing tackle box would creep me out...but then I am not a fly fisherman. It is truly an art in so many ways.
That is incredible detail. Who does that?
Impressive. Absolutely and unequivocally.
Maybe we gardeners should buy some to put on our plants to scare away the real bad guys! Pretty cool bugs.
Those are incredible Bob, fly-tying sure has progressed a long way since I was a kid with a portable vice on the riverbank of the river Annan. I expect the introduction of new synthetic materials has really opened up the creative floodgates for contemporary fly-tiers, embedding realism to some of these patterns that could never be achieved from feathers and silk alone.
That mantis is completely insane.
ESP.
Amazing- Who would want to feed a fish with those. They are too beautiful. His lordship is off catching redfish---I hope.
Greg shots Bob!
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