I decided a few months ago that I should start adding rattles to my Clousers. I had some small rattles and tied them on the hook shank but I don't think they made much noise. I bought some bigger ones but they were a bulky mess on the fly and I did not like the way the fly came out. I tried it again recently and with the help of some English dude on YouTube I put them on using heat shrink tubing. Seems like they are going to stay on, they are not in the way of any of the materials on the fly and they might even make more noise in the tubing. The English guy was pretty convinced they were noisier in the tubing but I can't tell the difference. So far I don't think the rattle has gotten me one more striper than I would have caught without the rattle but I will keep using them. Now all I need is a 10 pound striper roll into one of the spots I fish and grab the darn thing. It is kind of slow out there. I might have to tie up a carp fly and go look for some Eurasian carp.
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