The Creature is my version of a mop-style fly that I designed for fishing in warm water. The fly received its name from an anonymous fisherman I was chatting with at one of my local lakes. We were comparing notes on the day's fishing, and as conversations like these often go, we shared the contents of our fly boxes
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The Creature is a very effective "mop fly" for panfish and other warm water species.
The purist, dry fly anglers turn their noses up to this ugly easy to tie style of fly because it can be nothing more than a piece of your bath mat lashed to a hook shank. But the thing they hate the most about the fly is that it will likely catch more fish than their exquisitely tied Catskill style dry fly!
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