Flexo Forward

Tied this one forward; I like this style....cant freaking wait for chenille, am tired of these legs, too much effort.

You are becoming a PRO on these ties. Well done. What chenille did you order and from where?

Very nice Mark! I'm enjoying tying these myself, and they were deadly effective on Providence in April..

Thanks guys, they are easy to. tie.

Ignatius there are no fly shops where I live so I ordered some chenille fromTIEMCO in Japan.

http://www.tiemco.co.jp/eng/groups/view/216

I hope it is the right stuff as hard to judge size from their website.

Bought the FLEXO from cable organizer.com

https://www.cableorganizer.com/braided-sleeving/

Nepps, will be tying some up for Sudan in October.

The hooks I have are killer, they are Gamakatsu size 12 Tai Rubber hooks #66074

http://www.gamakatsu.co.jp/products/search.php?md=d1&kd=3&n=66074

Mark - Some advise for Sudan... ZERO flash and ZERO UV in any of your materials.. even your eyes.. check all your flies under UV lights...

Peter Coetzee has just come back from a very successful trip with Tourette... he hammered the Triggers... but said any fly that had any Flouro/UV to it, even when not seen with the naked eye, but showed any UV glow under a UV lamp, was like throwing a rock in the water at the fish.. they bolted immediately!

So his Flexo's all had UV in them, and as such were useless... something worth thinking about when you tying another batch up, if they specifically for Sudan.. His Trigger Crack and Tan Merkins were the best flies...

Also key element of this fly is the weighting.. tough to see from your images where your Tungsten Dumbbells are, but the need to be positioned closer to the bend of the hook, rather than the middle of the body, to assure the fly sinks correctly and rides hooks up... learnt this from James Christmas the other night while tying with him...

I've also reverted to a different way of tying the eyes in which is more durable..

Instead of premade the eyes, I loop a piece of Mono through the Flexo from the "opposite" side, and poke the two ends out where you want the eyes to be... then slip on a glass bead in whatever color, and snip the mono then burn the mono with a Bouz Line Cutter or normal lighter... then you can coat with UV or varnish etc whatever.. Basically this means the eyes are on one continuous piece of mono, which is looped/threaded through the flexo, and as such don't pull out during fishing as easily..

Nepps,

Thanks, ya I read that report and will for sure not have any flouro, I bought a load of UV flexo to ....oh well, maybe permit will appreciate it.

I tied the eyes onto the shank on this body and it is pretty bulletproof:

Thanks for the info, Mark.

Murray Pedder wrote a nice article on crabs in the June/July issue of TCFF. Well worth a read.

Thanks Ignatius, i will pick up a copy when i go back to SA

Mark - That looks great man..

Seems to just be Sudan where the fish are picky as hell with regards to Flouro/UV... the fish in Sey smashed the Flexo's I had, all had UV in them! In fact the Orange UV versions killed it the most..

Had some medium chenille for legs but it all unravelled leaving only the fur on the ends and the joint which gave it unreal action, the nail varnish bits float...

wow that thing must disco boogie in the water..

After flatten out the Flexo...

That thing wants to get eaten!

Nepps, i have a cool video of that crab in the pool when in finally figure out how to open a video account.

Dr Halibut, ya that Jub-Jub should get chowed.

Still some more R&D whilst I find some ultra chenille legs...which shop in JHB has the right stuff?

Ok here it is, Osprey Flexo coming in for landing...

Sudan Trigger view...

Wow this thing swims unreal, the keel beads make the fly sink level and not upside down like they do just with the regular dumbbell eye on the inside.

tied these beads on the inside, the beads are defiinitely the business for a level sinking fly. My beads are a bit big; one size down will be perfect...

Here is a short video...

Not sure what happened to the link but it is not right?

ok here is the right link

and another...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yw0NC4W-0E