Eye Candy

Every sea bass angler knows the attraction of our favourite sport fish for fry which it actively hunts under oyster beds, in eelgrass beds, under the wireweed (Sargassum muticum) and along the edges of the seaweed when the sea retreats and in all the intertidal areas.

Eye Candy is an essential model for sight fishing for bass or for anticipation slow stripping action.

Hook size: #06

Advice for use
This is a light fly that is very easy to cast with 6 to 8 weight rods and is mainly used with floating lines, special sea bass lines, in shallow water between the rows of oyster beds and all areas of shallow clear water at the end of the ebb tide and the very beginning of the flood tide.
As we operate most often in open water and under strong luminosity, the use of transparent ”ghost” floating lines can be crucial to the success of your approach and your fishing action (Monic type).
The clearer and shallower the fishing area, the longer and thinner the leader should be (discretion when casting and elasticity when hitting big fish).
To be tied to the end of the tippet with a loop knot to improve its hesitating swimming action (Perfection loop & Homer Rhode knots).
Ideally a Rio type SW fluorocarbon tip from 06 to 10 lbs.
The line should be retrieved with short, jerky pulls to simulate the hesitating and hectic swimming.
The strike/take is generally frank and violent.
But it can be very subtle on beautiful and more educated fish.
Any loss of contact must be punished by a strong strike by pulling on the line with the left hand (right hand for left-handers).
Very often, this imitative fly is frankly engorged from the first strip after its entry in the water.

Eye Candy (Groupe 4)
972306 #06