| Here's a new way to make a soft, open-cell foam crayfish.
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| This fly still needs some work: the proportions aren't right yet.
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| But this is a promising new technique. Among my local
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| Montana Rivers, like the lower Madison, Jefferson, Ruby, Big Hole, Yellowstone
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| Beaverhead and Missouri........crayfish are a big deal. And this is the first
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| soft crayfish I've come up with that's fast and easy to tie.
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| Fish do bite these things and hang on, rather spitting them out right away.
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| I've been fishing them for several years now, but the way I used to make
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| them was too slow and time consuming for practical use. This one's fast
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| and easy to make.
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| ....it'll start to look better soon. I've just got to work with it a little.
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| To make it I wrap a horizontal needle with spawn sack, and then wind on
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| some rubber legs and hackle. Then I split the front half of an open-cell
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| foam body blank. Then I pull the needle out of the vise and stab it into the
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| crux of the half-split body blank. Then I wind backwards dimpling the foam
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| in a few places, whip finish and then lash it onto a hook. Weight can be added
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| (in an earlier step) by wrapping the spawn sack with wire, just prior to winding the hackle.
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| I'll make some step-by-step photos once I get all the kinks worked out.
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Crayfish and shrimp/
Foam Crayfish
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