Epoxy Madness

I have been tying a bunch of flies for catching some nice big schooling white perch on Lake Champlain this coming weekend. I started out with the usual fare- woolly buggers, Clouser Minnows, bunny strip flies- and as usual on many of them a put on a nice epoxy head. A quick Google search entitled "flies for white perch" got me thinking about epoxy minnows.  A couple of hours later I had a bunch of flies that looked like this:

How the epoxy madness started.....

That was the beginning... I started thinking about what else I could do with it... Thinking about how cool it would have been to have a floating fly with a wiggling marabou tail to fish on a full sink line for those lakers I have been chasing.....

Not perfected yet- I played with it a bit during dry time...

Then I thought about what else I could do with this new madness that had struck me... how about a fly with a rattle, ala crankbait style....

Makes a lot of noise

And what about a floating frog style fly to entice post spawn pike?  

A weedguard and some rubber legs will improve this puppy, but not bad for a first draft

The natural progression led me to think about muskies... big brutes that like to eat frogs.... big jointed frogs....

Both sections float, wiggle wiggle little froggy....

My newfound dementia had taken over and I liked it! Look at the size of this last one!

Musky meal? You bet your ass...

I am looking forward to further exploring this new phase of fly tying insanity! Me thinks it will bring about many good things.... and some bloody big fish!