Dragonfly try

Fished Merchants Millpond the other day, fish breaking the surface but wouldn`t take my "bugs" , on the surface or sub surface:( looked like they were hitting the little dragonflies..
So at the suggestion of someone I tried tying some.....
Float tested but not fish tested yet............... too hot for the old man out there !

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This what the fish sees?

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Very cool.Can't wait till ya try them out.

Man this is not right its unfair and cheating ya'll don't play fair,I don't want to fish with someone that uses stuff like that.Want be any fish for me to catch with my 2bit store bought stuff after the fish see some of ya'll stuff lol.

They look REAL good pat,they look great,maybe even one with the same amount of white stuff.At the second joint giving it a two wing look,some days you know how smart the fish can be.Not adding but taking half of the white stuff and puting it at the second joint.
I'd never make it in the fishes world being a fish,I'd be a sucker for stuff like that lol.

Update:
Another trip to the millpond and returned empty handed again ! Fish still breaking the surface but were`t interested in the dragonfly, the turtles wouldn`t leave it alone tho.
Still can`t tell what is breaking water, bowfin? gar? too hot to venture out today , plan to go to the river tomorrow early AM before it gets too hot..
A pic of the millpond

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Thats the type places I fish,more than likey it was gar,this time of year places like that are hard to figure out.Noticed yesteraday the fish were only taking small little bitty stuff off the surface.Plus it the little stuff had to be still it could not have no action to it.I think a small little wooly bugger type fly with no legs cast let lay no movement could have caught some fish.However thats not my type fishing I change over to a small spinner type lure ponyhead 1/32,1/16,1/8 with curly tail grub and burn it thought the water colunm.

Love the tie, looks like a good damsel fly for sure and a descent dragon fly too. Better than anything I have ever tied as far as either bug for sure. One thing you might want to try is to get the head and main body to stay on top with the tail slightly under water like it is laying eggs or something.

Tying the wings on top might help too.

Once you get some movement on the water that should get a lot of takes and hook some nice fish. Maybe fish it really slow with a long rest and then a hard flutter struggle type action. Might trigger a fish to take it when it stops.

They look good I make them a little diffrent I use the foam strips under the thread for floating and can place the foam toward the front so the tail is under the water or I can not use foam and they slow sink And I use diffrent colors too !Attachment 52591
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Those are very nice Rob, well done!

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They look good I make them a little diffrent I use the foam strips under the thread for floating and can place the foam toward the front so the tail is under the water or I can not use foam and they slow sink And I use diffrent colors too !Attachment 52591
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Very nice !
Pat

Thanks !

nice lookin flies to both posters!

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They look good I make them a little diffrent I use the foam strips under the thread for floating and can place the foam toward the front so the tail is under the water or I can not use foam and they slow sink And I use diffrent colors too !Attachment 52591
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Those are really nice Rob. What did you use for the wings and the eyes?

Dennis

The wings are pheasnt tail and the eyes are hourglass eyes but I have bead chain works just as well and is cheaper !

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The wings are pheasnt tail and the eyes are hourglass eyes but I have bead chain works just as well and is cheaper !

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I was wondering if the eyes make them sink?

If you use the hourglass lead eyes yes they will, but if you use bead chain paint them good and clear coat them then use thin tie foam under them they wont ,You have to use a lot of the foam and tie it tight before you put the eyes on. It took me a while to get them to float but finally figured outwhat I was doing wrong ! try it out and just play around with it there really fun to tie, what takes the longist is the tail !

A guy at work has been bugging me to make some dragon flies, I'm gonna give it a try. What size hooks are you using?

On them I use a lightning strike st5 sz 08 its a down eye 2x heavy, 6x long straight shank streamer hook !

Thanks, gonna give it a try.

No problem ! When you get them post some pics and let us know how they turned out !

I have not yet tried to tie a dragonfly but if I were I would deftly used a full because I would want to float where I live we have quite a few smallmouth bass in the river behind my house in they love to catch dragonflies in did air in the summer it is a lot of fun to watch them. Do you know that 2" bass will attack a dragonfly bigger than they are. But of course the river. There are full of these little guys in they act like Puranas. If you really want to laugh get a snake about a foot long going across the river flows little bass will rip them to pieces. But anyway, getting back to the dragonfly pattern made out of foam. I deftly would want to work with this. I deftly would want eyes that would float or a plastic beads it. We could paint see what we can do in the future and maybe try to post later on.

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OK, finally got around to making one. It's alot of work, if my buddy likes them he's gonna have to pay dearly for them. What do you think? I don't like the wings, gonna have to try something different.

Dennis

Try long thin hackle for the wings, you can cut and shape it pretty easily if needed.

Very nice ! I used a little buck tail fur for my wings .
Wonder how some cellophane for wings would work ?
Pat

Thanks, Im gonna try both see how they look. I thoght about the cellophane but figured I'd have a hard time cutting them in to shape and don't know how they would lay in the water, wether they would fold up and stick together, anyways gonna keep trying and see what happens.

Hey Pat I meant to ask if you every cuaght anything with your
Dragonflies yet

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Update:
Another trip to the millpond and returned empty handed again ! Fish still breaking the surface but were`t interested in the dragonfly, the turtles wouldn`t leave it alone tho.
Still can`t tell what is breaking water, bowfin? gar? too hot to venture out today , plan to go to the river tomorrow early AM before it gets too hot..
A pic of the millpond

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Pat -
If the rises are small, I'd imagine the culprit is shad - or some other kind of minnow-like fish. They do that down here in Louisiana this time of the year, and when it is in conjunction with bluegills, etc, it will drive you up the wall!
I'd give it one more try, and if the results are the same, give it a two-week rest.
Pete

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Hey Pat I meant to ask if you every cuaght anything with your
Dragonflies yet

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No haven`t caught anything with them, the turtles really like them tho

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Pat -
If the rises are small, I'd imagine the culprit is shad - or some other kind of minnow-like fish. They do that down here in Louisiana this time of the year, and when it is in conjunction with bluegills, etc, it will drive you up the wall!
I'd give it one more try, and if the results are the same, give it a two-week rest.
Pete

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Thanks Pete,
Haven`t been over to the pond lately , just got back from a camping trip....................
Going to pick up the canoe from my son and give it another try..........

We're at KY Lake right now. Gonna give it a try for bass when the weather settles down. Alot of rain and it's only in the fifties. Got soaking wet this morning.