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Anyone looking for a salt water fly rod and reel?
I don't know of any really good books on how to tie flies, but here's some good books on flies and saltwater fishing.
Saltwater Fly Patterns by Lefty Kreh.
Inshore Fly fishing by Lou Tabory.
I've seen some good tutorials online for complex tying, like deer hair heads and such, but I don't have any links.
Here's what I just made a few days ago.
It's a 12" double hook eel fly for dropping into rips with a lead core line.
I hope it works.
Hi MJ, The two packages that I have are made by TCS. These are the smaller size 4 popper bodies for freshwater. You are going to want to get some of these http://www.wapsifly.com/pp.html Wapsi makes excellent fly tying products. On the left side of the webpage you can see the Hard Poppers. Thats what you want. Next to the Poppers pictured is the hook sizes that they will accommodate. On the website you can see exactly what I was describing to you on how to make Popper flies. It is much easier to see in pictures than to type. The Popper on their website they are tying is more of a Bass bug and you do not need to put those wiggle leggs through the body. Also just buy straight shank hooks and depending on the popper legnth will determine how long of a hook to buy. The broader the popper head the more splash you will get. I like to use different size poppers especially for saltwater. Stripers and Blues do get finicky like trout and dont always want the huge flies or huge poppers. If I am going out on the beach or the rocks for
the day I bring flies in size 6 hooks which are very small and up to size 2/0 and bigger. You never know what sizes they want so bring several. Last year I was fishing an upper Maine Trib that loads up with big stripers and I was outfishing all of the bait guys on a small size 6 sand eel imitation. The Bass were just keyed in on that small Silhouette of the sandeel and would not take big cut bait or big flies. I have found that Poppers work best for me in the early morning and evening time. Remember that if they are not breaking the surface, take off the popper, put on your sinking flyline and throw them some clouser minnows either Chartreuse, Yellow, White, Blue, and my favorite is very sparse olive bucktail using only the metal shine of the hook shank as flash, finish them with small or medium red lead eyes depending on the depth you are going to fish. Bring some small sand eel patterns, and a few small deceivers, same colors as the Clousers. The ultimate goal is to cover the whole water column. You will eventually find the fish. I hope I answered your questions but if not just let me know.
Have a good night,
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i do some salty fly fishing but i dont tye my own my salty flys but i want to start to.