Monday, March 7, 2011

McTage's Foam Trouser Worm Carp Fly

4/25/2013 - This post has been updated to reflect an evolved version of the Foam Trouser Worm.

This post details the Foam Trouser Worm, a later post will explain the leather version.



The standard San-Juan Worm may be a good carp fly.  It may even be a great carp fly, but I find it awkward to fish for carp and it lacks versatility for different presentations.  In order to have a better carp fly I wanted to improve on the standard San-Juan Worm in several major areas. 
  1. Fall, strip and sit hook-up.  A hook-down carp fly is just not natural.  The idea to go full head-stand came later.
  2. A fly with some decent action that can work on the drop, twitch AND strip as the circumstances dictate.
  3. A fly with some decent durability.
The Foam Trouser Worm and it's leather variant satisfy all these requirements..

MATERIALS:
  1. Hook:  Size 8 Scorpion Gaper.
  2. Thread:  UTC red waxed 280
  3. Bead: 3.25mm black brass bead
  4. Eyes: #6 Stainless bead-chain.
  5. Body:  15lb Red Amnesia Mono filament
  6. Tail:
    1. Uni Big Fly Thread, red
    2. Spirit river extra small glass bead
    3. 2.7mm black brass bead
    4. 14 1/16" thick, 1/8" diameter foam plugs made with a hole punch. 
DIRECTIONS:



7 comments:

  1. McTage,

    You're a friggin' genius. Already been catching some of these Georgia carp with your original foam headstand worm. That new segmented body is going to murder 'em. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

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  2. Thanks Dustin.

    Ty - I was going to abandon the foam until you caught those carp and posted about it.

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  3. Hello, I´m David Romanillos and I´m follower you.
    Very good foam fly.
    http://romanillosamosca.blogspot.com/

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  4. After watching your posts I can say that you are very genius because it is not a easy task and everybody can not do that because it requires some skills and interest. If u are interested in carp fishing then u can do that if you are not interested then you can not do these kind of posting. And carpbuddy.com is a site that provides lots of carp fishing news, carp fishing articles, carp fishing tackle reviews.

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  5. What a great concept, its wonderful to see something totally new in fly design, and I bet the Worm will work wonders on Trout also

    THANKS

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