Lobster Fly

[boarmountain]

Here is a fly I was messing w/ last year. Opinions?

[boarmountain]

Another view

[tsheehy]

I don't know about lobster, but that thing looks like it would slay smallmouth..

Nice work..

-- Tom

[striblue]

Mike, bueatiful..whats the shell made out of?...nice color capture. Does it ride hook down?..I mean is it a swiming fly or is it intended to be down on the sand?

[AlderBrookFarm]

I'm thinking the same thing....I guess I would have tied it hook up. How do you intend it to swim?

[boarmountain]

The shell is made of foam so it floats. I intended to fish it w/ a LC-13 head and a 2-3 ft leader so it rides just of the bottom around the jettys that I fish. Never did get a chance to try it though......

[boarmountain]

Also, w/ the tail tied like a lip , I figured it would dive when stripped.

[Sedotti]

Reggie Reginsburg showed me a new fly of his, at the International Fly Tying Symposium, in November, which was a "copy" of a Mantis Shrimp. It looks like a small lobster, but different enough, and he said that most fishermen who find "small lobsters" inside stripers stomachs are actually finding mantis shrimp, not lobsters. Reports of "Small lobsters" in bass's stomachs is actually quite common. I'd like to see more good mantis shrimp immitations ( which would be about five or so inches long) and more good lobster immitations that are bigger, like true lobsters. Reggies fly was great.
Mark

[RGMurphy]

Attached is a poor image of the Soft Short, an old pattern. .

http://photos.imageevent.com/97fxbt/flatside60/websize/sftshort5.jpg

This one is tied on a 5/0 Eagle Claw 413 jig hook. It is just under 5 inches in length. It has a good balance between drag and weight for rod loading ease (weight balanced, Mark) and a pretty good built-in self-righting moment. The self-righting moment means that the moment that exists between between the pattern's center of gravity (sinking stuff) and it's center of buoyancy (the floating stuff) is sufficiently strong enough to restore and enforce and the pattern's hook up equilibrium if that equilbrium is distrurbed. So if, while madly stripping the pattern across a sand flat near a rock pile, it happens to get tipped on it's side, the chances are real good that it will self right to a hook-up equilbrium on the next strip.

Merry Christmas to all

Rich Murphy

[striblue]

Lobster Log Fly, weighted on the bottom for slow strip on sand:

[striblue]

Same Fly...view looking down.

[boba]

Pass me the lobster steamer ... oops, five inches. Too short.

[sal-t-dog]

O.K. heres my LOBSTER FLY,
all deer hair. an 8" long
"GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN"

[sal-t-dog]

HERES THE SAME FLY, I did it jointed so when you strip it, it will return back. WELL just MY thought. "
"GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN"

[striblue]

Rich, great innovation to that fly... like the idea.... Mine is actually to big to cast, it was a prototype...I guess it could be "droped" from a boat or jetty around rocks..but I am working on one that is 1/2 the size and much lighter... and another one with the silli skin too. I don't think it would be a Chatham fly but one up in the North Shore.

[sal-t-dog]

STRIBLUE, I believe that silli skin is going to take off,
can't wait to tie something up w/it. Im doing a small lobster up this week. I hope.
"GOOD LUCK GOOD TYIN"