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August 17, 2010

Cermele: The Sexiest Fly in the Bahamas

By Joe Cermele

Quick story. The first time I ever went bonefishing was last November on my honeymoon in Turks & Caicos. At one point during that trip, I was surrounded by 300 bonefish that would eat a piece of hot dog if I threw it at them. Fast forward to today, where I just spent nine hours looking for a repeat performance on the flats surrounding Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas. Guess what? I got spoiled the first time around. Today's fish were spooky, snobby, finicky, and loved to tease. They tracked my flies all day, turning away at the last second. But all that changed when guide Rick Sawyer broke out the sexiest bonefish fly I've ever seen.

At first glance, the "Hot Tina" might not look like much, but even so, Sawyer asked me not to show the fly in a way that's too easy to copy. You see, he's the only man in possession of true Hot Tinas. More accurately, he's the only person in possession of the soft black hair used to tie them. It once belonged to a stunning Canadian model Sawyer met on the island. "Your hair would flow beautifully in a fly," he told her (good pick up line, by the way, fly guys). So the next time she got her locks cut, she mailed Sawyer the bag of trimmings and the Hot Tina was born.

Problem is, that was many years ago and the raw materials are running thin. Sawyer says he's been offered $100 for two Hot Tinas in the past and he refused to sell. I'll admit that the hair on these flies has a little bit different shimmy, and after tying one up, the next bone in my range suddenly decided not to track and turn away, or daintily peck the fly, but slurp it down like a vacuum cleaner and it was game on. I feel honored, because Sawyer only busts out one of these gems when the going gets really rough. Is that true? Who knows, but I dug the story. That's one of the coolest flies I've ever had a guide tie on for me. Seen anything that compares to the Hot Tina? - JC

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Did that hair come from Tina Turner? If it did, I can see why it is so hot. Lots of action on that fly.

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from timromano wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

I'm betting the hair on those things comes from his dog.

Great guide story though. It's all about fishing a fly with confidence and I'd say he got it to work for you...

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from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Tina turner haha that's ajoke right? Elisha cuthbert is more like it

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from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Tina turner haha that's a joke right? Elisha cuthbert is more like it

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from dukkillr wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Elisha's a blonde, heretic...

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from Jere Smith wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Only if the collar and cuff's match duk ;D

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from MLH wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Um, no I just can't suggest that thought. That would make it truly a triple X.

But human hair - what a brilliant and obvious idea. There's this really cute redhead ... just maybe.

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from tkbone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

I'd rather see a picture of the actual Tina than the fly anyway.

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Your "hot tina" is a clouser tied with crystal flash and black calf hair. Sorry to break it to you JC but your super model fly came from a cow. Maybe you can rename it "Buttercup".

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from Modern Day Moun... wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Maybe Tina was the cow's name?

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

buckhunter..It is a Clauser, but I don't think you can say the hair came from a cow. This has really got my commercial juices flowing. I use to tie commercially for a short period of time, and made about 50cents a fly. This business model may get me back into tying commercially again.

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from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

dukkillr,
Hair dye my friend.... Hair dye

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from Koldkut wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

those hairs taper awful quick....

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sorry guys. My previous post should read "calf tail" hair. Slightly curled, some stiffness and a good taper.

Maybe we should have a "name that hair contest". Separate the men from the boys. JC will post a fly and we guess the recipe. Winner gets a cameo appearance with JC in a future Hook-Shots.

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sayfy ~ Go for it, you tie...I'll buy.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Count, They won't come cheap! The hair I plan on using will come from an Italian lass of considerable note. I will have an enormous travel expense, and wining, and dining expense in order to secure the finest of material that will turn a huge, lazy buck fish into a raging mass of fury attacking the fly with reckless abandon. These would have to be Limited Addition flies as well. But I would also guarantee no "new and improved" versions.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Count,
And this may just get you to forget the cost, and place a generous order....those big bug eyes on the front of my fly won't be eyes.

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sayfu ~ I admire your instinctive business spirit, laced with the likelihood of an unlimited expense account.

When can I test drive? I think the appropriate test waters should be in Patagonia. But that's your call, of course! Still, those gi-normous sea going browns down there would be worthy of the "Sayfu Clouser."

Or, is the target species found only in the Bahamas?

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

JC ~ Your photo up top this page...reminds me of Dad's magazines. You know, the ones he never knew I looked at back in the 50's!

Or did he?

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from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Homeless folks will sell their hair dirt-cheap. You can tell folks it came from someone famous, how the heck will they ever know? Just sayin'

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from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Call em' the "hobo-cutter", I know, I know, I'm going to hades.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

jbird..get serious. I am going to have the hottest of hot hair from a hair raising hottie. Flyfishing is all about having the edge, and my flies will have the ultimate edge. Think of those fly anglers out on the water having spent lots of time and effort to catch more fish than you, and now you have the edge over them if you have one of my flies on the end of your line.

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from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

sayfu...lighten up. You're gonna have to after your "celebrity hair flys" endeavor.

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from Nycflyangler wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

You know where this leads, right? The wholesale tasering of unsuspecting women on the street with the right hair color and the shaving their heads.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

NYCflyangler, Interesting enough, I teach at our HS, and am known as the fly guy, and tell fly fishing stories in the classroom. I have often commented to girls that I could use a lock of their hair to tie a fly with.

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from Albert A Rasch wrote 1 year 23 weeks ago

That's just what I needed, a better pick up line while I'm in Afghanistan!

Best regards from Afghanistan!
Albert A Rasch™
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles: Cleaning your Sleeping Bag!

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from tinagraham wrote 52 weeks 2 hours ago

I remember the day you created this fly, Rick.. Thanks again! Can't believe it's still around! Say 'hi' Leigh! Miss you guys.

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from timromano wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

I'm betting the hair on those things comes from his dog.

Great guide story though. It's all about fishing a fly with confidence and I'd say he got it to work for you...

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Your "hot tina" is a clouser tied with crystal flash and black calf hair. Sorry to break it to you JC but your super model fly came from a cow. Maybe you can rename it "Buttercup".

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Did that hair come from Tina Turner? If it did, I can see why it is so hot. Lots of action on that fly.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Tina turner haha that's ajoke right? Elisha cuthbert is more like it

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from dukkillr wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Elisha's a blonde, heretic...

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Tina turner haha that's a joke right? Elisha cuthbert is more like it

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from MLH wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Um, no I just can't suggest that thought. That would make it truly a triple X.

But human hair - what a brilliant and obvious idea. There's this really cute redhead ... just maybe.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

buckhunter..It is a Clauser, but I don't think you can say the hair came from a cow. This has really got my commercial juices flowing. I use to tie commercially for a short period of time, and made about 50cents a fly. This business model may get me back into tying commercially again.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from MPN wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

dukkillr,
Hair dye my friend.... Hair dye

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from buckhunter wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sorry guys. My previous post should read "calf tail" hair. Slightly curled, some stiffness and a good taper.

Maybe we should have a "name that hair contest". Separate the men from the boys. JC will post a fly and we guess the recipe. Winner gets a cameo appearance with JC in a future Hook-Shots.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Jere Smith wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Only if the collar and cuff's match duk ;D

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from tkbone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

I'd rather see a picture of the actual Tina than the fly anyway.

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from Modern Day Moun... wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Maybe Tina was the cow's name?

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from Koldkut wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

those hairs taper awful quick....

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sayfy ~ Go for it, you tie...I'll buy.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Count, They won't come cheap! The hair I plan on using will come from an Italian lass of considerable note. I will have an enormous travel expense, and wining, and dining expense in order to secure the finest of material that will turn a huge, lazy buck fish into a raging mass of fury attacking the fly with reckless abandon. These would have to be Limited Addition flies as well. But I would also guarantee no "new and improved" versions.

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from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Count,
And this may just get you to forget the cost, and place a generous order....those big bug eyes on the front of my fly won't be eyes.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Sayfu ~ I admire your instinctive business spirit, laced with the likelihood of an unlimited expense account.

When can I test drive? I think the appropriate test waters should be in Patagonia. But that's your call, of course! Still, those gi-normous sea going browns down there would be worthy of the "Sayfu Clouser."

Or, is the target species found only in the Bahamas?

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from countitandone wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

JC ~ Your photo up top this page...reminds me of Dad's magazines. You know, the ones he never knew I looked at back in the 50's!

Or did he?

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from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Homeless folks will sell their hair dirt-cheap. You can tell folks it came from someone famous, how the heck will they ever know? Just sayin'

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

Call em' the "hobo-cutter", I know, I know, I'm going to hades.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

jbird..get serious. I am going to have the hottest of hot hair from a hair raising hottie. Flyfishing is all about having the edge, and my flies will have the ultimate edge. Think of those fly anglers out on the water having spent lots of time and effort to catch more fish than you, and now you have the edge over them if you have one of my flies on the end of your line.

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from jbird wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

sayfu...lighten up. You're gonna have to after your "celebrity hair flys" endeavor.

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from Nycflyangler wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

You know where this leads, right? The wholesale tasering of unsuspecting women on the street with the right hair color and the shaving their heads.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from Sayfu wrote 1 year 24 weeks ago

NYCflyangler, Interesting enough, I teach at our HS, and am known as the fly guy, and tell fly fishing stories in the classroom. I have often commented to girls that I could use a lock of their hair to tie a fly with.

0 Good Comment? | | Report
from Albert A Rasch wrote 1 year 23 weeks ago

That's just what I needed, a better pick up line while I'm in Afghanistan!

Best regards from Afghanistan!
Albert A Rasch™
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles: Cleaning your Sleeping Bag!

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from tinagraham wrote 52 weeks 2 hours ago

I remember the day you created this fly, Rick.. Thanks again! Can't believe it's still around! Say 'hi' Leigh! Miss you guys.

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