By Ben Engle
By Ben Engle
Recently I've been playing around with a few old techniques for creating full bodied flies that are easy to cast. One of the tiers I've really been nerding out on is the world renown Bob Popovic. Popovic's reverse tied hollow flies are a truly incredible inovation in the fly tying world. These create a large silhouette almost completely out of bucktail that is nice and lightweight but gives you a phenomenal action in the water. This was the base of the my Looks Better Wet (LB-Dub) fly. I wanted to create something that filled what I felt was a large void in my box.
In the surf we fish 2 styles of flies. The first I'll address are Jig Style flies which are more commonly referred to as Clousers. A lot of predatory fish key in on the drop of the fly after you strip it. The pause allows for that heavy head of the fly to pull it downwards in the water column and then dart back up when you perform your next strip. If you follow our shop and fish the salt I'm sure you have heard of the "Adachi Clouser". If you don't have any of this fly in your box you're flat out crazy. Jig style flies on the market are a dime a dozen, but this one is tied to pure perfection. With 3 layers of epoxy throughout the tying process they are the only "bulletproof" fly I've fished in saltwater. This is why I honestly haven't tried to to create the next best jig fly. Sure I could try to make the next best clouser fly but I am a firm believer in the old saying of if it ain't broke don't fix it, and I honestly thing the Adachi clouser is pure perfection.
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