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Orange booby.
Okay. We started off nicely, you know, the imitative stuff, now we're gonna fuck it all up. But look sometimes you've got to fish the booby. And if you're got to fish the booby, then fish an orange one. There's no point in only going half way. Let's go the whole way - Hell's not such a bad place; for one thing I know there'll be some fantastic women there, and I won't know any of the women in the other place (God told me).
I was first introduced to the booby... phew, a long time ago. There are times when the fish are hard on the bottom and you just can't fish slowly enough by any other means. Whack out a Hi-D with a booby and you're in.
I actually use quite long leaders with the booby, with little boobies on the droppers. This works well. Fish slowly, but do fish it, otherwise you'll end up deeply hooking fish. When you retrieve the booby pulls down of course. If you retrieve too fast you'll hook up with the bottom. Fish with plenty of pauses since that's the most effective time.
For New Zealand river mouths the booby is my first choice - unless I can see fish. However, there I'll use a short leaders and no droppers (too many snags).
This "fly" is also pretty good in August fished on an internediate. Stick a leaded fly in the middle and you have a yo-yo.
Tying instructions:
Hot orange marabou tail. Mono rib. Hot orange seal (looks better than marabou). Two large ethafoam balls enclosed in doubled-up sexy unwashed black stockings. You'll have to tie these in first, figure-of-eight. Doubled-up because trout have teeth, sexy cos, well all my flies are sexy, unwashed because we'll be making use of the female pheromone (make sure the wearer's not a transvestite - just ask, that's always the best way I find). Size 10.
