Cheesy Poof carp fly- by Nick Pionessa
featured, Fly Patterns, Step-by-Step Tutorials — By Kevin Hospodar on January 26, 2012 11:46 amHook- Daiichi 1650 sz 6
Thread- tan 6/0
Body- Red fox body fur
Eye- medium bead chain
Flash- copper crystal flash
Mount you hook and attach your thread
Drop a loop for the dubbing loop
Choose your red fox body fur and cut a clump about an inch long
Insert the hair into the dubbing loop ad spread out evenly. Trim one the butt ends
Spin the loop and brush out any trapped fibers
Wrap the dubbing loop forward on the hook, making sure to keep the fibers pulled back
Attach the medium bead chain eyes on the hop of the hook
Select one strand of copper crystal flash and attach at the bead chain eyes
Trim to length
GO CATCH SOME CARP
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14 Comments
Nothing new or special about that fly. It’s just another variation of the Bonefish Bunny we’ve been tying here in Florida and the Bahamas for as long as I can remember.
Cool fly!Think I’ll look for some red fox body fur at Somerset tomorrow.
Nice pictures of an effective carp fly. Here we fish a similar fly of palmered rabbit strip with no flash and it is taken for bread I’m sure. This is something new to play with. Thanks.
Gregg
Good clear pictures of an interesting fly. I will tie some for the carp later in the year. My experience of fishing for carp involve floating ‘deer hair’ patterns. This one will be a departure from the norm.
Thanks – John
What insect does this “fly” represent or imitate?
Brian,
That is a versatile fly I think with it’s subtle flash and flowing/moving fur. Static, a crawfish, dragonfly nymph, leech, tadpole, crawler mayfly, etc. playing possum or hiding. Even decayed flesh or bread if people feed ducks. Moving, cast to sighted fish the same, with that motion all important for that essentail “drop”. One could play with legs, tail, and such, but I like it as it is.
Gregg
thank you all for the comments. i certainly don’t profess to be the first person to put fox fur and gold bead chain on a hook. for carp or anything else. the dubbing loop is the key to this particular version. i have no idea what they think it is. we have speculated it’s more crayfish than anything else since crayfish flies work well here too. the areas we fish are not areas where people feed carp but i wouldn’t put the bread idea past them either. i may have to try some white ones where the fish are used to bread, that may work well. it was first tied in a hurry on my way out to fish and was designed to hover a bit for weed covered bottoms. you can change the eye size/weight to get it to hover more or sink fast. it hooked three fish that day and has been the best producer for us for the past two seasons. at this point i don’t care what they think it is!
Like mentioned above it is a Bunny Fly originated by Mel Kreiger for Largemouth Bass in Florida decades ago. It evolved into a genuine Tarpon Fly on a 1/0 hook. I do not bother to make a brush I just wrap the material,Finn raccoon, Arctic Fox, Bunny or whatever round the hook shank and secure. It works! I have caught many different species on this fly including black ones with hot orange heads imitating egg sucking leaches for Steelhead.
I’ve seen big carp jumping, for dragon or damsel flies I believe,in Ocean Lake Wy. and always wanted to go back and try and catch some on a fly. I’ll give this a try – thanks.
Nice Tie, Nice fly.
How do you fish it? Short strips? figure of eight. I’d love to give it a try.
Great Post Nick!!!!
Looks Good. Visible, Soft…Keep the Carp Patterns coming
Maybe some ideas for you…click on my name
I bet you could get away with using the longer
craft fur (tan).