The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Medium - 5-7 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
Most streamers you can interchange materials easily, but with this one sticking to the recipe is the best way to go. There are, however, a few simple equivalent materials that can be utilized.
Flash: You are more than welcome to tie in some Flashabou instead of Krystal Flash if that floats your boat.
Hackle: Any brown, grizzly, or grizzly brown hackle sized appropriately to the fly will get the job done.
Rib: Some people use a piece of 5x mono tippet to rib the fly instead of wire, to each his own.
This hunk of meat is made to imitate some pretty specific things, and is what it is because of it’s coloration. No large variations are available except changing the leg color, ribbing wire color, or thread color.
You’ll know when it’s time to pull this fly out of the box when the leaves are changing, and the monster browns are coming out to play. The color contrasts and flash tossed in with lots of legs make this streamer irresistible to hungry fish looking for a supersized meal in the fall. with that being said, this bug is also a huge stillwater fish enticer where crayfish are on the menu. If you tie it with some lead free wire and a tungsten conehead it can really get down quickly in fast water, or to those hard to reach toads in your local reservoir. Make sure you have a variety of sizes in your box wherever your bass and panfish adventures take you as well.
As far as rivers go, lots of weight in the fly, and sink tip line is the way to get this bug in front of the fish. When it comes to stillwaters, a full sink line paired with a weighted fly will do you well. To compensate on floating line just weigh it down to get it in the column that the fish are feeding in. A wise man once told me, “most of the time it’s not your bad fly choice, you’re just not in front of any fish!”
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