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Bluegill Low Fat Minnow

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Pike · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook wide-gap streamer/saltwater hook, 1/0-2
  • Thread white 140 denier

Materials

  • Marabou Fluorescent white marabou (1 sparse clump)
  • Marabou Medium olive marabou (2 clumps)
  • Palmer chenille Orange finesse chenille (short length)
  • Bruiser Blend dubbing Brown olive ice dub (1 pinch)
  • Bruiser Blend dubbing Cream laser dub (1 pinch)
  • Living Eyes Ice/silver (5mm, pair)
  • UV resin Clear uv resin (as needed)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend. Bind a sparse fluorescent-white marabou clump one shank length, then stack roughly double the amount of medium-olive marabou on top for the tail.
  2. Tie in orange palmer chenille and wrap forward to the 60% mark for the underbody; bind and snip. The marabou packed underneath becomes the translucent guts of the minnow.
  3. Add a small olive marabou clump over the top, reaching back to mid-tail, to deepen the back.
  4. Reverse-tie brown-olive dubbing on top and cream dubbing on the belly, wrapping so the fibers flare; sweep back and pinch a stubby minnow head.
  5. Whip finish at the eye and clip. Glue a 5mm ice living eye to each side.
  6. Seal the head with thin UV resin and cure, then a thicker coat over the eyes and cure; trim to a compact, deep bluegill profile.

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