Crickets

[efishnc]

I was just thinking the same thing... a fly rod for some top-water action... get those pannies busting the surface!

[MonteSS]

I will make some floating ones too. I am going to try fly fishing this year too. Think a #8 hook is about right for that?

[Denny Welch]

I was wondering when someone was going to bring up a fly rod.  Those crickets would fish good on a floating line or an intermediate line if you wanted to fish it in the water column.  The hellgrammite that Chuck posted a month or so ago would catch trout like crazy if you could get it to tumble through the stream bed.  If you guys are marketing those baits, you're missing the boat if you're not selling to fly shops.

[basskat]

We don't have trout but we have some monster bream.

On Pickwick a lot of the banks are rock bluffs. The catfish spawn on these bluff walls. We take a fly rod, bream cork and red worms with very little weight and fish these. You roll it up to the wall and hang on. The largest I've ever caught weighed 32 pounds. Now that's a fight on a eight foot fly rod.

[Denny Welch]

Now that's a fight on a eight foot fly rod.

No kidding.

[CrabbyBass]

I have looked at this mold a number of times. I just never pulled the trigger on it because We had the helgies. Thanks for the tip Denny! We will have to market to fly shops. Anyway, great looking crickets monte! You will for sure catch a ton of fish one those.

[efishnc]

I will make some floating ones too. I am going to try fly fishing this year too. Think a #8 hook is about right for that?

Without having the crickets in hand, I would only be guessing on best hook size... I'm sure whatever you think is right will be fine.  The only thing you need to worry about is keeping them on the surface... if you can do that (and put them over the fish's heads), I think they will have to bite because they look so good.

[Eep3501]

Monte SS, is that a do-it mold? Or where can it be found?

[MonteSS]

BT mold.

[Eep3501]

Thank you sir.

[MonteSS]

Even with my floating formula there is not enough plastic in this bait to float i tiny hook.

[perch]

hey those are some cool crickets nice colors    and yes they do catch trout and panfish heres a tiger trout I caught on a black cricket with a little siver and blue glitter in it   I fish them on a size 10 fly hook or a small 1/32oz jig head with a #6 red hook


heres a rainbow on the cricket hes not ready to be landed yet

[MonteSS]

Never heard of a tiger Trout. It is beautiful. Nice job.

[jmatheny9]

I haven't heard of it either but I caught a trout last year in late September that looked very similar? Thought it was a rainbow.. Where are these native?


                   -Jeremiah

[Denny Welch]

Great post, perch.  I hope you post on here more often.