The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
The pine squirrel is key to this pattern as other zonker strips are too large and don’t look as good. Pine squirrel is like a mini zonker strip and works great.
Adding different colors of pine squirrel zonker strips gives good variety. I also like to use some barred rubberlegs at the head of the fly in pumpkin color to give the fly even more movement and break up the monochromatic look to the fly.
As with all streamers, you can add a beadhead or conehead to add additional weight to the fly and get it down deep.
Easy to tie, and really only 2 materials are needed. It’s a quick tie and more importantly, extremely effective. Great for beginners looking to practice with zonker strips but not wanting to waste materials screwing up a more difficult pattern. I’ve fished a lot of streamers in my life and this one still seems to produce more consistently than anything else I’ve fished.
The two best ways to fish this are as you would any streamer. We have tips for fishing streamers here – https://staging.thecatchandthehatch.com/fly-fishing-techniques-colorado-streamer-fishing/
The other technique is to add a conehead or beadhead so it gets deep and dead drift it along the bottom, jigging it slightly every few seconds before letting it get back to its dead drift. This can be deadly when the fish aren’t eating anything else you’ve already thrown. A big meal in trouble is hard to turn down for a trout.
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