Micro Rabbit Sculpin – being in the zone

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  Micro Rabbit Sculpin, Grizzly Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Collar Tail The Micro Rabbit Sculpin is straight forward and won’t give tyers any grief. It is a simple yet very effective sculpin pattern. Using a jig style hook allows you to bang this fly off the bottom without…

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Articulated Trout Slider – a slide for big trout

Articulated Trout Slider, Rusty Brown

Articulated Trout Slider, Rusty Brown Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook and Connector Connector Bead Thread and Head and Eyes Body Beard Tail and Articulated Trout Slider The Articulated Trout Slider is a streamer pattern designed to slide through the water while using flash and material movement to entice big trout. This fly…

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Pheasant Bugger Jig – a gateway to streamers

Pheasant Bugger

Pheasant Bugger Jig Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Collar Tail with Pheasant Bugger Jig Gunnar Brammer’s Pheasant Bugger Jig is a streamer tied entirely out of pheasant. The pattern is super buggy and can be used in both stillwaters and running streams. It can be stripped, jerked, jigged, dead-drifted…

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Thin Mint Bugger – a trifecta of tail colors

Thin Mint

Thin Mint Bugger, Olive/Brown/Black Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight 7 wraps Ribbing and Body Hackle Tail , , Tail Flash 3-4 strands on each side. Thin Mint The Thin Mint is a variation of the Wooly Bugger utilizing a trifecta of tail colors, Black/Brown/Olive, and a Peacock Herl body.…

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Jig Sculpin – jig on a down stream drift

Jig Sculpin, Olive

Jig Sculpin, Tan Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Body Fins Collar Tail and Jig Sculpin The Jig Sculpin is an extension of Euro Style nymphing being applied to streamer fishing. The jig streamer is usually applied to a typical Euro Nymphing rig as a point fly and is jigged as…

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Clouser’s Swimming Nymph – great for bass and carp

Clouser's Swimming Nymph

Clouser’s Swimming Nymph Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight wraps Ribbing Legs Body Thorax wingcase Tail with Designed by Bob Clouser. Bob guides for smallmouth Bass in Pennsylvannia on the Susquehanna River. He has designed a number of reknown flies, perhaps best known for his Clouser Minnows. The Swimming Nymph…

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Burk’s Aggravator – lots of action and attraction

Burk's Aggravator, Hare's Ear

Burk’s Aggravator, Hare’s Ear Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Weight wraps Ribbing Legs Body Thorax wingcase Tail Tag Collar Andy Burk, a Central Sierran fly fishing guide, designed this fly originally for smallmouth bass. Yet, it has also been very effective for a number of other species including largemouth, steelhead,…

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Galloup’s Zoo Cougar – a paradox as it floats underwater

Galloup's Zoo Cougar

Galloup’s Zoo Cougar </tr> Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head , clipped Body Underwing Overwing 2 Tail Collar Galloup’s Zoo Cougar Kelly Galloup is widely known and recognized for his creative, innovative patterns. The Galloup’s Zoo Cougar is interesting because of its dual personality. It is designed as a floating fly,…

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Zonker – a new zealand influence

Black Zonker

Black Zonker Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Underbody Body Wing Throat Zonker Dan Byford of Steamboat Springs, Colorado came up with the Zonker pattern in 1975 while he owned the Dan Byford Fly Shop. It is one of the modern American Rabbit-lure patterns taken from the original Rabbit flies introduced…

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Spruce-a-bou – spruce up with marabou

Spruce-a-bou, Golden

Spruce-a-bou, Golden Materials to Order Material, click the link Hook Thread Head Ribbing Body Underwing Wing with Sides Hackle Spruce-a-bou Developed by fly fishing guide Tom Loe at Crowley Lake, CA. He was the founder of Sierra Drifters Guide Service and now resides in LaPine, Oregon. The Spruce-a-bou was designed to imitate baitfish that inhabit…

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