The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Medium - 5-7 Min
Coldwater
Sculpin that I’ve found are olive, black, pumpkin/brown and tan in color. I’d start with a few in natural colors then tie a couple crazy colors in there too as a way to attract or entice as well.
Two major benefits of this fly is it’s excellent profile that really looks imitative of a sculpin and its ability to tie this fly in smaller sizes. You can get away with 12’s and 14’s on 4x long – 6x long hook shanks and it allows you to tie super small sculpins which seem to work really well. Most sculpin I’ve found in streams are less than 4 inches long and most around 2 or so inches total. Match fly sizes accordingly.
Sculpin hug the bottom as if their lives depend on it….wait it does. This is why sink tip leader, sink tip line or lots of weight is key to fishing sculpins. I like to fish two of these on a sinking line and just tug em along slowly cross stream as they roll and bounce along the bottom and scoot along from my short, erratic strips in of my line.
I like to do a traditional streamer cast with this fly and cast it upstream of me towards the far bank and let if sink down until the fly is parallel from me then I begin a short twitchy retrieve letting my line drag and bring the fly across the water column. This gives time for the flies to get down deep and then twitch and skate across the fish. If the bite is on, I get a chase at least every 3 casts and hook ups are however often I can get it right :).
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