I tie a foam one that we have tied at beer tie. Its like a piece of foam rolled like a Little Debbie Swiss cake roll. It is tied to a hook with a green rubber leg sticking out the back. It plops and floats
I've seen people use foam strips, a dubbing or chenille ball, and deer hair. I think Tucker used to fish them in Georgetown when he worked for CNN and came to beer tie. I don't remember his pattern.
My experience is turtles will eat the faster than fish. I carry them with me this time of year but never seen a carp feeding on them. I have been to Georgetown with no luck in the past.
The birds on the Post Master's house behind me is full of berries this year. So many birds. I've never seen ceder waxwing on the tree before. Too bad its not over water.
On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 09:02:54 AM EDT, Misha Gill <misha4455@gmail.com> wrote:
Jeff,
I had it in my head that maybe it was you that I saw making the mulberry flies. Sorry for the misattribution.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom and insight! I'm going to give it a go.
On Mon, May 25, 2026, 5:05 PM Jeffrey Silvan <jeffreysilvan@gmail.com> wrote:
Mulberry season was my favorite time of the year for carp. My go-to fly was just a bunch of thin strips of foam (maybe matchstick thick) tied in at the middle of the piece at random places and angles along the hook shank. If you can find a piece of foam in a color you like, great, otherwise get white and a magic marker. Green stem optional. I used white more often than not and just colored them in various shades to really "match the hatch."
I tried a few other things like wrapping some foam around the shank (think like rolling onto a paper towel tube), gluing the layers together, and using thread as the divider to make better "segments" of the berries, then shaped it with a razor, but frankly everything else was more complicated, time consuming, and wasn't any more effective. I also tried adding a bit of lead to be able to really get it to "plop" and sink a few inches before floating just like actual mulberries falling. But again, it really just added time and didn't seem to make it more effective.
--On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM Misha Gill <misha4455@gmail.com> wrote:
--Anybody got plans to get after some fish eating mulberries?
Also how about discussing favorite fly patterns? RN I'm thinking just spun black deer hair with UV epoxy dots plus a green stick of foam for the stem, along the lines of the fly shown below. I remember seeing a spun foam version tied at beer tie in the past as well, maybe it was Scott Stankus who i saw tie it, if memory serves.
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