RedBeard Posted September 17, 2014 Posted September 17, 2014 Alright, I'm going to try upload a picture. Don't know if it will work but here goes. Nice Murray! Gonna have to try it out this week! Quote
jaymack Posted September 21, 2014 Posted September 21, 2014 Those are some long legs, how do the fish like them compared to the shorter ones? Quote
bcubed Posted September 21, 2014 Posted September 21, 2014 Considering how most boatmen legs are approximately as long as the boatmen body is long, those seem like overkill, but easy enough to trim if they don't work. Quote
BigFoamy Posted September 22, 2014 Author Posted September 22, 2014 Yea it works and no the legs arent a problem. These flies work excellent, I wouldn't post if they didn't lol!! IMO this is an excellent looking pattern and works f'ing awesome! Look at Murray's pattern, he got tons of love for it and the legs are twice as long as the body lol!! I tie all my boatman patterns with long legs and cut them as the situation would require. Go back and look at the first picture in the thread, boatman with shorter legs. I cant speak for everybody but Ive never used a better/more productive boatman pattern than the one i tie. This is also a really small fly which makes the legs look big. 1 Quote
BigFoamy Posted September 22, 2014 Author Posted September 22, 2014 its like putting rubber legs on any fly (wooly bugger???), makes it more buggy. This bug actually has legs though, they belong there, not to mention their legs are pretty long. Just saying. 1 Quote
Birddog Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Here is a fly that I've had great success with either on a sink or floating line, they smash this fly most of the time so I upgrade my tippet. 1 Quote
murray Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Here is a fly that I've had great success with either on a sink or floating line, they smash this fly most of the time so I upgrade my tippet. Al, is that a version of an ULTIMATE BOATMAN? It looks like a foam body coated with a lacquer of some kind. Murray Quote
Birddog Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 Yes its a version of Jennings's Ultimate Boatman, its Aqua seal on the top and hard as nails on the bottom half, not a lot to it but works very well. Quote
murray Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I like it, think I'll give it a try. What sizes do you use? Murray Quote
Birddog Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 I tie them on a size 12 to 10 nymph hook. Quote
BigFoamy Posted September 30, 2014 Author Posted September 30, 2014 Jennings Ultimate Boatman is one of the best flies you can use on a lake. did a bunch up 2 years ago. Great pattern and kind of a crazy tie considering you don't tie anything, no thread required. Quote
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