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Baby Gonga Streamer

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Difficulty Icon Medium - 30+ Min
Water Category Icon Coldwater, Warmwater

Tying Video

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Tying Recipe
  • Hooks: Down eye streamer hooks 2x heavy 2x long
  • Thread: Monocord 3/0 tan
  • Tail: Strung marabou yellow over tan
  • Hackle: Hen saddle pale ginger
  • Body: Ice dub light yellow
  • Attachment: 30 pound test spiderwire
  • Beads: Two 6/0 gold
  • Eyes: Small dumbbell eyes yellow with black pupil
  • Legs: Sili legs chrome gold and black
  • Head: Polarfibre tan on top white on bottom
  • Hooks: Any heavy gage long wire streamer hook will work. I personally find straight eye hooks have more movement for the rear hook compared to down eye.
  • Thread: Any medium thick thread will work. 8/0 or 70 denier would be too small, anything over 3/0 or 210 denier would be too large.
  • Tail: Any longer fibered marabou will work. Wooly bugger marabou may be too small depending on what you’re looking for.
  • Hackle: Chinese neck hackle is a good substitute for hen saddle.
  • Body: There is plenty of chenille options to replace dubbing bodies, be careful about thickness here.
  • Attachment: If you don’t have 30 lbs. test line, 20 or even 15 will work fine for trout and most warm water species. If going after anything larger than the average bass or trout, try beadalon in higher test.
  • Beads: No substitution for beads, fairly inexpensive and work great.
  • Eyes: Dumbbell eyes work best here. If you want a completely weightless streamer, you can try stick on eyes.
  • Legs: Any round or square rubber legs will work.
  • Head: If you can’t find polarfibre, try rams wool!

This is a little bit of a complicated streamer pattern when it comes to the amount of materials packed into a bite sized morsel. However, this only means more room to get creative! Changing up materials and colors can get some great looking flies. For some extra flash, consider using some polar flash chenille on the body either with the feathers, or without. If you find that the polarfibre is giving you a bit of trouble, consider using rams wool as a great substitute.

This streamer benefits by being a smaller, more realistic fly than most streamers that you see on the market today. The polar fiber head is denser than most sculpted streamer heads and pushes a good amount of water to really stimulate those lateral lines. Being a smaller fly, it won’t intimidate trout from taking a bite at it.

In cooler weather slow the retrieve of this fly down, or let it swing in the current to aggravate those lethargic fish. Once the water warms up in the spring and summer you can speed your retrieve up to get fish to chase the fly down and aggressively eat the streamer. To fish deeper water, get a sink tip, or add split shot to your leader to get that fly down in the zone.

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