The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
This is a great pattern to really play around with to get exactly what you want in a small streamer that is easy to fish. For a more flashy fly, try adding some small flash chenille in between the wraps of pine squirrel for an excellent accent. For more of a bait fish imitation, consider replacing the plain eyes for some dumbbell double pupil eyes so the fish have something to target. For fishing still waters, if you’re looking for something with a little more movement, replace the pine squirrel tail with some marabou.
This is a great fly to hang under a strike indicator in stillwaters and rivers alike. The fly hangs parallel to the bottom for a more natural presentation, where most flies hang perpendicular, straight up and down. This is a much better presentation for nymphing streamers under an indicator in stillwaters and slow rivers where there is not much current to add action to the fly. This fly is especially effective in the wintertime where fish are slower, as you can slowly strip this fly in under a bobber, without having to worry about the fly dragging in the mud.
Fish this fly under a bobber, or strip it in like you would a normal streamer. The benefit of having the hook eye near the middle/ upper 3/4 of the fly, is that it hangs parallel to the bottom under an indicator, or stripping it in, it allows the fly to move up and down much like a wacky rigged soft plastic on conventional gear. If fishing this in stillwaters, make sure that this is your bottom fly, and have your chronomidge or damsel fly nymph connections at the eye so those flies hang parallel as well.
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