Crazy Charley Bonefish Flies

Most bonefish are encountered in water from 1 to 3 feet deep. A slightly weighted fly that rides hook upward is required to fish this water properly with a floating fly line. Try to match the sink rate of your fly to the depth of the water you are fishing.

Bob Nauheim is credited with developing a fly called the "Crazy Charley". It is a design, which sinks quickly to the bottom and then rides hook-point-up to remain comparatively snag-free when retrieved. It was colored to imitate a small fish or possibly a shrimp. It proved itself to be a very reliable producer of bonefish and drew nearly instant recognition around the globe not only as a pattern, but also as a style of design. Many different colors of flies are now called "Charleys" in honor of the first one that set the trend.
Weighted eyes used in the following patterns are either stainless steel bead chain or coated lead for corrosion resistance in saltwater.

Gold/Brown Charley Bonefish often mine a flat hydraulically by forcing high-pressure jets of water into soft bottom places. The ensuing clouds of fine debris are called "Muds". The Bonefish Mud Charley is a deadly fly on mudding bonefish.
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30300-04	Gold/Brown Charley	4	3 for $5.95

Tan Charley Many bonefish food organisms are well camouflaged to match the color of their environment. Coral bleaches to a light tan color as it dies. It often dies in patches where it is expose by low tides. These thin water areas are prime habitat for bonefish food organisms.
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40010-04	Tan Charley	4	3 for $5.95

Green Charley This pattern matches the coloration of many things that live in and along grass beds and has just enough flash to be attractive to bonefish. Troy Bachmann pattern.
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63140-04	Green Charley	4	3 for $5.95

Root Beer Charley If you only had one size and color of bonefish fly to do all of your fishing (perish the thought) this could be it. Brian O'Keefe pattern.
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63175-04	Root Beer Charley	4	3 for $5.95

Pink Charley There are a lot of pinkish looking things crawling around on some hard coral flats. Pink flies are very productive in many places.
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63185-06	Pink Charley	6	3 for $5.95

Rabbit Charley This tanish colored fly is nearly the same color as the bottom on open sand and sparse turtle grass covered flats favored by bonefish in many areas of the world. The rabbit hair is soft and lively when wet.
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62167-06	Rabbit Charley	6	3 for $5.95

Bonefish Interceptor
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30280-04	Bonefish Interceptor	4	3 for $5.95
30280-08	Bonefish Interceptor	8	3 for $5.95

Yucatan Special
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65150-06	Yucatan Special	6	3 for $5.95
65150-08	Yucatan Special	8	3 for $5.95

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