The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning

The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning

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CrawBody Crawfish

Insect Species Icon None
Difficulty Icon Medium - 7-10 Min
Water Category Icon Coldwater, Warmwater

Tying Video

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Tying Recipe
  • Hook: Straight shank streamer hook
  • Weight: .025-.030 Non-toxic wire
  • Hook: Nearnuff Crayfish Orange dubbing
  • Antenna: Pumpkin or orange crazy legs
  • Body: Fishskull CrawBody
  • Rib: Copper brassie wire

Tying tips: This fly isn’t too hard to tie, no techniques are used that you shouldn’t know. It is rated a medium difficulty because of how much you have to keep up with while tying.

  • Ue any dubbing you like but stick with a nymph dubbing
  • Use any legs you want
  • Try different colors, olive, orange, and tan are the most common.
  • Try varying the weight in the flies for the water depth you are fishing.

This fly is so effective because of the crawbody. This provides lifelike claw movement to this fly like no other. If you are fishing very picky fish who need the closest imitation this is your fly! The dubbing underneath looks like swimmerets and the long rubber legs for antennae produce a great flowing motion in the water. Just make sure you get this fly deep!

Cast this fly through deeper currents and next to shoals while fishing for trout. Fishing crawfish patterns under an indicator can be a deadly combo for catching big trout. They help you slow down your drift to get slower movements out of your crawfish flies. Make sure you get this fly deep enough when nymphing, it must be on the bottom.

For bass you can use this fly under an indicator as well or strip it near structure. Slow quick strips along the bottom give this fly great action and keep it in the strike zone.

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