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EvanB
Post 08 Jun 2016, 20:22 • #1 
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I caught a lot of fish on these things with my cheesy fiberglass fly rod when I was a kid: http://www.pistolpeteflies.com/index.ph ... ommon/home

Thinking about tying up something similar. Bet they would be great in white/silver for white bass in the Spring.
Anyone here fishing propeller flies?
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Eddie Southgate
Post 08 Jun 2016, 20:50 • #2 
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Don't see why not.
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pearow
Post 09 Jun 2016, 06:48 • #3 
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you bet!-p-
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OKMike
Post 09 Jun 2016, 08:07 • #4 
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Every chance I get, bluegill and bass love them.
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OKMike
Post 09 Jun 2016, 08:08 • #5 
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Jann's netcraft is a good source for the blades
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pye1982
Post 09 Jun 2016, 09:48 • #6 
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I've actually been tying these lately and have been killing it with bass, trout, and panfish!! I get my blades from feathercraft.
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EvanB
Post 09 Jun 2016, 11:43 • #7 
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My FF80 is the perfect rod to cast these things. I ordered a few off Amazon to try this weekend.
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Robert
Post 09 Jun 2016, 12:05 • #8 
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A friend of mine uses these with great success on Colorado trout. I was witness to this last weekend when we fished together on a local reservoir. I even caught one myself on this pattern after only a few casts.
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Brian M
Post 09 Jun 2016, 12:35 • #9 
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Do you guys find you need the twist (tune) the blades a bit more to get them to spin?
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Porespeler
Post 09 Jun 2016, 14:06 • #10 
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A classic ! Loved by Bluegills and Rock Bass throughout the lower Midwest .
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Newfydog
Post 10 Jun 2016, 00:04 • #11 
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I never heard of the things, but I can promise you the local trout will get a good look at them. I suspect they will be great at times, and I'll enjoy the horror displayed by purists. I sure like this forum!
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EvanB
Post 10 Jun 2016, 11:20 • #12 
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Another one my dad turned me on to when I was a kid are the tiny Hildebrandt spinners. When I fished the Jemez in NM a few years ago it was in the middle of a drought, forest fires everywhere. Word was the trout fishing was really off. I figured out they were in the riffles instead of the pools due to the low oxygen levels and slayed the trout on those little spinners.
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topha
Post 14 Jun 2016, 11:35 • #13 
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I've eyeballed these a couple times at cabela's. I laughed a little when I saw them. But this post now has me considering giving them a try. Maybe I'll keep a few around as "day savers" when nothing else will work.
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EvanB
Post 14 Jun 2016, 12:49 • #14 
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Here's your "day saver" right here: https://www.amazon.com/Hildebrandt-0FLG ... HNC9KEZ1SG
When I was a kid my family did a two week vacation every summer in Colorado for seven years straight. When the dry flies didn't produce my dad would fall back on these.
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Fatman
Post 18 Jun 2016, 17:16 • #15 
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Yes you sure can and if you have kids that can't handle a fly rod yet you can tie them up on small jigheads too.
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bassman
Post 24 Jun 2016, 14:39 • #16 
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Pistol Petes? Heck yeah...
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And Fatman, I have caught walleyes in tough conditions with a Whistler Jig which is like yours but a torpedo shaped head. And Evan B, when I was kid on vacation I wasn't allowed to use the big motor yet and would just start from camp rowing with two rods out, one with the Hildebrandt Flicker and one with a small jig and pork strip. Very seldom came without a stringer of 'gills, crappies, a bass or two and often a walleye in the mix just rowing slowly around the cabbage and edges.
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pearow
Post 24 Jun 2016, 17:37 • #17 
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Here's some tied on a #14 hook for ultralight fishing. I like the pistol pete on the jig hook. good idea. gotta tie some up-p-
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Porespeler
Post 09 Feb 2017, 08:15 • #18 
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Caught a lot of Rock Bass and Bluegills on the Pistol Pete . I've tried it out on a lake for trout w/o success . But I'll give it another chance this summer
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softhackle
Post 13 Feb 2017, 22:15 • #19 
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Pistol Pete's are a classic. Go for it.
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skunked_
Post 13 Feb 2017, 22:38 • #20 
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I tie some almost exactly like pearow, but I put the propeller between two small glass beads and I use rabbit for the tail. I fished some this evening in sz 12 and stocker rainbows couldn't get enough. I prefer larger hooks for trout with this fly (usually sz eight) but didn't have any tied so I used some smaller ones. Great fun.
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Newfydog
Post 28 Sep 2017, 11:51 • #21 
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Well, a few of these things have been in my box now for over a year. They caught a few fish, but didn't seem too special, until yesterday. I showed up at a lake just as a couple of knowledgeable locals were coming off, and reported very few fish for their efforts. I went out and tried a lot of things that have worked before with no luck at all. The Petes were the answer, seven fish after I put them on, rainbows up to 20". There is another big one out there with a Pistol Pete still in its mouth.
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GuloGulo
Post 30 Jan 2018, 20:28 • #22 
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I like em.
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Buggy & ugly. Not a trout angler by anymeans, but plan on chucking the big one or similar at a Pyramid Lahontan Cuttie next year...
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bulldog1935
Post 30 Jan 2018, 22:07 • #23 
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they work
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GuloGulo
Post 29 Jul 2018, 10:06 • #24 
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Approved by the local Leopomis Cyanellus chapter!
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ejcrist
Post 29 Jul 2018, 12:11 • #25 
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Never tried 'em but I will now. A quick search returned a lot of good reports on them. Looks to me like in the most basic form it's just a Wooly Worm with a small prop between two beads (plastic or brass) - simple enough.
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