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Our New Fly Fishing Fly Needs a Good Name

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Our friend Phil Pope has created a new fly...and we need a name!

Phil Pop New Fly Fishing Fly

 

Fly Specs:

  • Materials: Polar fibre and EP shrimp dubbing (all synthetic.)  
  • To fish: Shallow salt water flats for redfish, sea trout, snook, and tarpon. 
  • Bouyancy: It sinks slowly and can be fished as a shrimp or a baitfish pattern.  
  • Use: for sight fishing (at a fish that you see,) or for blind casting (casting in an area that has fish, but you can not actually see them.)  
  • Weedless: It uses a unique hook to make it very weedless without a ‘weedguard,’ so the fly is very versatile.
  • Color: It is currently available in two colors, one size.  It will be available in other sizes and colors as a weedless bass fly in July.
Generally there is a rhyme and reason to naming fly fishing flies. To learn about these fly naming fundamentals read Allen Wyatt's article "The Naming of Fly Fishing Flies."
To submit your creative name for this fly, leave as a comment below.
The name will be chosen by Phil Pope himself on Monday, July 2.
Phil Pope New Fly 2

Comments are encouraged and appreciated!

Comments

Tipsy Tucker
Posted @ Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:01 PM by Bruce Tunno
Pope's Merlin - can conjure up strikes
Posted @ Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:54 PM by ken krause
PP's WeedFree I know this fly is going to be very weedless! And Phil's initials are P and P.
Posted @ Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:29 AM by Allen Wyatt
foxfire
Posted @ Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:35 AM by c dunn
Flats mullet- after the hairstyle, not the fish 'cause it's business in the front and party in the back.
Posted @ Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:46 AM by Jason Bergwall
The Pope's Nose. It resembles that part of the chicken and was invented and tied by.........
Posted @ Friday, June 29, 2012 12:53 PM by matt ohalloran
The Weedless Brush
Posted @ Saturday, June 30, 2012 6:02 PM by David brooks
Phil's Flats Temptation
Posted @ Tuesday, July 03, 2012 4:07 AM by Stew Gaylord
Red Coon 
other colors can be blur coon, green coon etc.
Posted @ Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:43 AM by Frank A Capone
The Winner is Flats Temptation! Announced at tonight's fly tying. Thanks for all of the great suggestions. We are reserving one of the new flies for all of the participants!
Posted @ Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:00 PM by Allen Wyatt
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