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I have experimented a few times tying flies that have the wobbling action of a hard bodied lure. This is the closest that I have come to emulating that action. The problem of course is balancing the weight needed to make a lure work against the amount of weight that you can cast with a fly rod. This fly fits the bill to an extent. At slow speeds of retrieve it does just what it is designed to do. It's light enough to cast on a fly rod and it swims with a true wiggling action. The down side of course is that if you strip too fast it does not have the weight to stay on track. As long as you keep that limitation in mind it certainly has its application.

Materials

Process

A	Cut a piece of clear plastic packaging about as wide as the gape of the hook and about one and half times as long as the hook (its easier to shorten it than to add a bit on. Pierce the plastic with the heated point of a bodkin or needle along the center line and a distance equal to about the gape of the hook from one end and push the foam along to the eye of the hook. Now place the hook loaded with the plastic hanging free into the vice.

B	Push the clear plastic forward to the eye of the hook and wind the thread in touching turns to the start of the bend of the hook. Tie in a set of glass rattle eyes at the three quarter position using figure of eight wraps. Tying in dumbbell type eyes

C	Tie in a bunch of body material just behind the eyes. Managing synthetic fibres Tie the body material along the top of the middle third of the hook shank.

D	Tie in a few strands of pearl flash in the gap between the eyes and the clear plastic and for the time being just let that hang below the fly. Position the closed plastic back along the top of the fly and tie it down firmly half way along the middle third of the hook shank. Whip finish in that position and trim the excess thread. Trim the front of the bib square. Trim the clear plastic off directly above the bend of the hook. Take one small lead shot and pinch that into position along the center of the leading edge of the bib. Mix up a small amount of epoxy and put a little epoxy over the lead shot, a little in the gap around the eyes and a little over where the clear plastic sheeting is tied down flush with the body.

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