The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Medium - 10-15 Min
Coldwater
Tying Tips: Use a fine tooth comb or brush to brush the head out while tying and before trimming. Be careful trimming the head and take small chunks off at a time.
Sculpin wool can be a tough material to work with until you have some practice with it. Keep at it and you’ll get it! Its similar to stacking deer hair so after tying this you’ll be ready to graduate to some deer hair head streamers!
Sculpin wool holds water pretty well but without having weight in this fly it is specifically designed to be fished on a sinking fly line. Sculpin live on the bottom of the river so you’ve got to put this fly on or near the bottom. Weightless flies are great because you can choose the depth with which line you use. The zonker tail creates an awesome swimming action and the sculpin wool head pushes water attracting fish’s attention.
Sculpin patterns can be productive year ’round but they are specifically productive in the fall. Big fish are on the hunt, there are less bugs hatching so easy meals become scarce. Big fish will always capitalize on an easy to eat sculpin though.
Fish this fly down river, don’t strip this fly upriver against the current. This fly is supposed to imitate a wounded sculpin so it wouldn’t be swimming upriver. Cast upriver to the head of a pool or trough where a big trout would be holding. Target boulders, logs, and cut banks to catch large trout looking to ambush an unsuspecting sculpin. Retrieve this fly with short quick strips. Be sure to let your fly line sink to the target depth before retrieving.
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