Saw 3 Carp yesterday snacking on these little leaves, or seed buds. I think they are coming from Chinese Elm trees, because we have alot of these trees in our neighborhood and they are all over the place right now. Here is a picture of one. I was thinking some green foam tied to a scud hook but that could be a helicopter for sure. Thoughts?



MK

Although it might be "bait" fishing, you could dry one out and super glue it to a hook.

Willi

Mark - it wouldn't be a good imitation if it weren't a helicopter because that is what the seed is designed to do.

I think the scud hook makes sense. Why don't you try a lightly dubbed chartreuse body - material choice depending on how much flotation you want. Then tie in a Wally wing - but, full on both sides and trude style instead of upright - using a chartreuse bugger hackle. Then finish with a little rust dubbing for the head.

By the way, the Wally wing would be the same method that I use for putting a tail on a parachute adams:



except that, for the seed pattern, you would would tie it in in the opposite direction; trim the loose barbs; save the looped barbs for the wing; and, then trim away the remaining feather and use it again for the next wing.

JM-
That's a real good idea, I am going to be doing some tying tomorrow and I'll give a few shots at something.

Willi-
Maybe I should add Super Glue and bare hooks to the vest, haha

MK

Mark - here is the result of my first effort. Out of habit, I couldn't help adding a little crystal flash.

Ben Franklin or Michaels has some fake leaves that would work just fine if you get get them to stick to a hook.

Man John, those look they would be the ticket . I'll take a dozen .

I'm going to get to some of these today if everything works out right (I have several other flies that need to tied for various swaps and other things first) and I'll post a pic if it isn't too awful.

Thanks for the inspiration fellas , I may yet look into a morphing of Willi's and Blackotters ideas.

MK

Mark,

This image isn't working. Do you have another way to view it?

Mark

Huh, I can see it. I could try to e-mail it to you. Or I could start messing around with putting this stuff up here on this site, this is something I have not done. Let me see what I can get figured out.

MK

I don't know why, but it's working today. Perhaps there was a server probelem somewhere.

Mark