Seatrout, Tigers, rattles and Christmas trees.

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#1 Post by **JimH** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:54 pm

Not quite sure where to put this thread it may be an example of how fishing crosses many aspects and boundaries

I have a friend (only one) from Denmark who is the inventor of the famous fly called the Juletrae - Danish for Christmas tree. I met him in Ireland some years back and we have fished and worked together since mostly fro seatrout and bass.

The Juletrae is a fantastic fly for seatrout and has proved to be great in Ireland too for many othe species like bass, mullet, pollack, wrasse - it can of course be tied with many variations and colours.

One cold summers evening we decided to build a SUPER JULETRAE - we added a Marc Petitjean magic head - to help it swim and i remembered i had a pack of 'micro sonic' beads so we added these into the body of the fly also. Like the beads in the thread below on soft lures

So it swam - it made noise - it was big and flashy -

we never caught anything on it

Then we went chasing tigers - in Africa - we had an idea the SUPER JULETRAE

A danish seatrout fly called the Christmas tree modified and built in Ireland using Swiss heads and Japanese rattle technology - fished by a viking catches tigers in Africa.

#2 Post by **corbyeire** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:16 pm

great story - and i can see clearly why those fish are called tigers!

#3 Post by **Seancelt** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:36 pm

Just as well it was lip hooked. I wouldn't like to try and get the fly out if it was deep hooked!! :shock: :shock: :lol:

#4 Post by MC » Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:28 am

Seancelt wrote:Just as well it was lip hooked. I wouldn't like to try and get the fly out if it was deep hooked!! :shock: :shock: :lol:

was thinking the same myself, its a case of the fly or my fingers :shock:

nice fish, good fight on the fly set up, good it must have been great :lol:

#5 Post by **pete** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:31 pm

Cool! Those little magic heads are smart bits of kit, really give a life like action to the lure...was toying with the idea of putting them on one of the snoods of a three hook flapper to pick up fish on the retrieve

#6 Post by **Tanglerat** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:25 am

pete wrote:Cool! Those little magic heads are smart bits of kit, really give a life like action to the lure...was toying with the idea of putting them on one of the snoods of a three hook flapper to pick up fish on the retrieve

Good idea........ and I wonder what kind of action would they impart if you put them on back to front?

#7 Post by **JimH** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:12 pm

the magic head works two ways - folded back creates a normal streamer type mode with the usual action. Flipping the cone forward creates what you see in the short video below.

The head creates 'eddies' around the fly and causes it to flow/move more realistically. cutting the head at an angle increase this action as much as 40% - the action is very dependent upon material used and at times it can prove deadly

they are available in a number of sizes too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgK8nBHrAZ8

best

#8 Post by **dave armstrong** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:46 pm

That looks deadly Jim!!!