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Viking Lars 
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,07:12 |
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Help please :-)
Lars
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If it moves - and shouldn't, use duct tape...
If it's stuck - and should move, use WD40...
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blackwater
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,07:36 |
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My favourite fly for snail feeders is a black and peacock spider. Fish it dead drift or as slow as you possibly can.
It is a great fly for when the fish are sighted feeding on the snails floating around just under the surface. As long as you get the fly in front of the fish and the fly will do the rest.
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Bernd
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,07:44 |
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Hi Lars,
take a life snail and glue the hook on top of it's shell    .
I remember an old (experienced) fly fisherman I met many years ago in the Bahamas. He tied a pipe cleaner to the hook and than formed a snail shell with it. Looked nice, but did not work at all.
I think that often the sense of smell comes into play when the fish feeds on this type of food.
Since the snails are slowly moving you should imitate it that way. In my experience that leads to: Take a very small fly cause otherwise the fish easily sees something to be wrong.
How big/small were the snails you found?
Greets
Bernd
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tomo
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,09:55 |
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I tie a black and peacock variant, replacing the peacock with a dark/black glister dub. For extra weight the addition of a small blue bead is deadly.
Cheers, Tom
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Walden
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,10:22 |
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Gary Borger ties a floating snail for use on stillwaters. Apparently they drift from time to time, like caddisflies, in search of new habitat, and that is the time to use the imitation. If my memory serves me right, it is all peacock with a brown dryfly quality hackle,
Cheers,
Walden
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rodfreak
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,11:01 |
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Tie a knot in a shoe lace and bind it to the hook. Chop one end off close and the other a few mm in length.
Cheers,
John
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VGB
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,11:49 |
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Weighted and unweighted montanas have worked for me. Some fish have been so full it was like holding a bag of marbles
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Crackaig
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,13:17 |
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Knew someone once who glued a coffee bean to the hook shank. Caught lots of fish on them. Though he said it was a snail I suspect the fish took it for "other reasons"
Cheers,
C.
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Snake Pliskin
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,14:54 |
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Black and peacock for me too. Usually fished high in the water column and drifted. I used to fish a lake as a kid, and when the snails were migrating fish were stuffed to the brim with them. Often an inspection of the stomach contents would show just snails and nothing else.
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Nick
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Posted on: Sep. 15 2012,17:26 |
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Black spun deer hair clipped into a snail shape. It floats at the same level as the floating migrating snails, mostly below the surface. If I was tying one now I might put a post of bright yarn on the top to make it visible.
Of curse that doesn't answer the question about imitating snails that the fish are feeding on deep down. I think in that case I'd use a woolly bugger!
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