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Hi Clyde,

The green froggy and the mouse left side were purchased on ebay, both are cork bodies, flocked with felt, legs for the frog are raft fur wrapped around thick mono then painted to stiffen them, up to the joint. The ones I tie use cork bodies painted, the same style of heavy mono as the base to the knee for the legs, but thick real fur, I paint and seal the legs to the knee leaving the forlegs unfinished.


Wayne, at least out here I fish the Goldies close to the shoreline where there are lots of rotting floatsome and lots of cover for the crappie, and food. Im along the old riverbed in the lake so quite a current crossing my position. I cast downstream, floating line, short rod so only a 7ft combination tappered leader/tippet, let the goldie sink for about a slow 10 count then with my finger on the line sort of give it a little twitch, just enough to give it some movement and make the foil catch the light and the fishes eye. Usually a crappie takes it on the second or third twitch. Im going to head up river and try them on the trout as soon as summer is over and the turist are gone. We have about 20 plus miles of river upstream from the lake thats open year round for trout.
Richard

Hi Gillbuster,
Ordered some flys from a nice guy in Utah who had a friend post some pictures in the fiberglassflyrodders forum, great looking all purpose beatles with long rubber legs. Anyway gonna send you one each of the three patterns when they arrive.

Well I know one guy that would kind of go crazy about selecting fly patterns, our own Cornmus, Joe would be great for the job, so would John aka Gillbuster, maybe the guys could put their heads together and come up with not just flys but some neat bugs and poppers too, a wild selection.

Richard