Roger S wrote:Does that muddler float or sink?
I like my muddlers to sink and will fish them on a sinking line at times. I try to not pack or use too much hair so they water log quickly and become neutrally buoyant. Lost my pics when my old PC died or I could show you how good they work as a streamer.
I’m starting to think I like the colorful ones more than the fish do.
I really think that the "stacking" of the different color hair does more for us than for the fish. Usually just tying them in a single color is successful except for divers. Stacking divers is different as the bass see the profile while floating and when you strip it gets a shot of the color(s) that may help it decide to take the bait. I use dry fly paste on my divers to keep them floating as long as possible.
I miss out on so many things about fly fishing. I'll have to hunt down my Chernobyl ants and try them on the local fish.
I have sink tip line for a couple of rods and never use it. It just seems "weird" casting and stripping in a sink tip. I try to avoid sinking line at all cost and would rather wrench out my shoulder joint casting a pound of Tungsten. It's my party and I can cry if I want to.
Dry fly paste, what is that like Gink that I hear about but have never used?
My divers, the heavily packed and stacked ones, are impossible to sink. They refuse to get waterlogged enough to even dip very much on the strip. I'm thinking of putting the razor to them to remove some of the buoyancy. I'll probably leave them the way they are and just tie up less buoyant ones. It's nice to have options and sometimes the high floaters seem to work well. Bass are about as moody as redfish as far as I can tell. Those are the two fish I have the most experience with. Maybe all fish are moody. The other divers I've done get lower and lower after a bit of fishing to where they hover in the water column. Seems like there's a point where those divers cross a line and become a muddler. I may have to look into this paste to keep a diver a diver.