Modified Zonker Fly

[AtticaFish]

....maybe would change a few things....

Now you can't do that and leave me hanging...... care to elaborate? I'm an artist (sorta) for my 9 to 5 so don't mind creative critisicizimizimie..... yeah whatever, you know what I mean. :rolleyes:

[skiptomylu]

Now you can't do that and leave me hanging...... care to elaborate? I'm an artist (sorta) for my 9 to 5 so don't mind creative critisicizimizimie..... yeah whatever, you know what I mean. :rolleyes:

LOL, Okay. Well for me I like to glue the skins together with this stuff that is called Tear Mender, it bonds & dries fast and is non toxic and I think will hold up well. You can fix lots of things with it and it's permanent. I am pretty sure it's faster to glue the strips together before tying it on the hook so that is what I would do much like I tie my Double Bunny's. Then To make it a little easier I would use the flash strips down the side in place of the tinsel. The one other thing for me is I would want the skin to at least come to the end of the hook and maybe even hang off some. Not much else though.

None of my changes would make a lot of difference in the looks, but I think maybe a little faster and I am just not friendly with hot glue. I have used it some, but it always seems to want to make a mess for me. All of this is nothing more than our way of tying a similar pattern and looking for ways to make it a tad easier and maybe faster.

I really like the creative side of what you tied, but I would just do it different, but that doesn't mean it would necessarily be better either. My way the hardest part would be gluing them together and keeping them lined up and then tying it on good enough to not turn on the hook. I have tried several different lengths of how long to leave it hanging off the hook and still have not settled on where to cut it off.

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