Last weekend in the South Haven Pro/Am my most consistant bait was a Church Tackle Revelator Flasher in Green Blade/Glow pulling my favorite Purple Taco Green Ghost Fly. At one point I had that combo on both full cores, a diver and a rigger and took fish on them all.
I had one PT Green Ghost Fly that got hit so many times that after about 12 fish it was reduced to a few glow fibers and it still took fish before I finally retired it for a fresh one!
Anybody else tried the Revelator Flashers? This was my first time running them and I can say I was impressed. I took fish on a Green Blade/Glow Bechholds too as well as a Black/Glow Bechholds but the Revelator was the most consistant last weekend.
I just never tried one before this year given I had a large collection of Bechholds and SpinDoctors.
I haven't tried the Revelators for the same reasons you hadn't until this year. How would you describe the action? Faster? Slower? tighter? or just different?
Jim...I Fish Therefore I Am
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I haven't tried the church's attractors (revelators) but I'm willing to try - they certainly look similar to the SD. Could you tell a difference in how they ran?
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I would describe it as just a little "tighter" in its rotation than some of the others I have used, which seemed to make it track in a smaller circle.
I found it to be nice in that it appreared to run in a smaller circle when I had it 20'-25' behind the ball and assumably less likely to reach out and grab lines near it!
I think all the flashers work and have their hot days, but the Revelator was easily the hottest for me this weekend.
Full disclosure so nobody thinks I am hiding anything - Bill Church gave of couple of his flashers and "dared" me to run them against the others so I did...during pre-fishing because I don't run unproven stuff during tournys.
Well it smoked the fish on Friday pre-fishing and by Sunday I had them on 4 rods....so obviously they worked if I was running them when the chips were on the table.
I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true, trust me. I just thought that based on what I saw this weekend people might want to give the Revelators a run if they haven't.
I found a 25" leader (back of hook to the front tip of the swivel that snaps in the flasher) to be the best.. I copied it off my first fly that was smoking hot and made all the flies behind Revelators the same length and all of them took fish. I ran it in the hole opposite the fin on the back and the front hole on the front tab (it has two like the SpinDoctors)
We boated 36 fish and lost another dozen on three trips and the Revelators probably did half of those. Considering that all three days once we limited on Kings we pretty much switched to a 9 rod spoon program looking for steel or deep dodger/spoon program looking for lakers that is pretty good.
The top fly was the first one that started taking fish. By the time it was on fish number 12 most all the green and mirage strands had been shredded and it was just left with glow strands but still taking fish.
Only reason I retired it was the leader was gettting real frayed.
I've caught a lot of fish on black/crush glow FC's, usually with a blue/glow fly. It's not original but I call it Black and Blue. No experience with the new super glow FC's.
Jim...I Fish Therefore I Am
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We have some of the Green glow as well as the blue glow blades. Cought fish on both and more on the green glow. Still like the crushed glow tape on any color blade with Taco glow beads in the fly. A little less glow seems to do a little more on our boat. Its funny to hear what other people are running and catching their fish on. We boated over 80 fish in 4 days in South Haven and cought a handful of fish on green rotators. White was our hot color, while Skip was hammering them on Green blades. Go figure. Any how it sure is fun when the fish are really bitting.
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Snagg, The black SD is one of my "go to" baits. i like to run it behind an all black diver with a green snubber. I also put a black/silver crinckle/glow/mirage fly behind it. seems to work really well. Mostly in the morning, but in the fall last year it went all day for me. I call it the penguin rig. all black and a little white. I also have the SD in the oilslick glow and the FC in crush glow if that makes any difference. they both work.
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I still think this guy looks like me on Sunday morning of a tourny....
