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I know what you're thinking... just trust me. It seems stupid and I have never seen this fly tied or used this way but, it is a great fly. Hook: 16 - 14 Scud Hook (I use Mustad C49S) Weight (optional): Fine lead wire wrapped between bead eyes and hook eye Thread: Black 6/0 Wing: Black Arctic Fox Fur and 2 strands of crystal flash (more like a beard, really) Body or Abdomen or whatever the fly nerds want to call it: Pearl Mylar wrapped over thread Head: Thread Eyes: Tiny silver bead-chain Okay, first of all, I don't want to hear any crap from any PC, lead-substitute whiners. Yes, I use real lead and, for this fly, real arctic fox fur. Well, I don't know if it's actual arctic fox, but it is actual fur. I don't mean to offend but, just because fur bearing critters live a little above birds on the food chain (maybe), awe screw it, if you want to use something other than fur or lead, go ahead. I use arctic fox fur because it rocks for this fly. The idea for this fly came to me when I was trying to think up some way to make a streamer relatively weedless by getting it to ride pointy side up. The only flies I thought of that ride that way are salt-water flies like Charleys and Clousers. Crazy Charleys are faster to tie so that was the big winner. I know that this is supposed to be a shrimp imitation but, I really don't think that means much. I think trout just see the thing undulating like a leech and grab it. That's why I like fox fur. I guess marabou would work, too but fox is finer and moves differently. In the end, the fly catches trout as though it was intended to all along. I've tied it in chartreuce, orange and olive also. Usually black is best. |
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