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Brent's Salt & Pepper Streamer

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Gamakatsu L11S streamer, 8
  • Thread Black 6/0 waxed

Materials

  • Grizzly saddle hackle fibers (webby base) Grizzly hackle (Small bunch (tail, under))
  • Brown saddle hackle fibers (webby base) Brown saddle hackle (Small bunch (tail, over))
  • Flat braid (Electra braid) Pearl mylar tinsel (1 length (body))
  • Dyed peacock herl Purple (from dyed eye) (1 barb (rib))
  • Brassie wire Purple ultra wire (1 length (counter-rib))
  • Saddle hackles Brown and grizzly hackle (1 each (throat))
  • Pheasant rump Natural gray pheasant rump (1 long feather (underwing))
  • Pheasant rump Purple/claret pheasant rump (1 feather (overwing))
  • Solarez Bone Dry UV resin Clear uv resin (Head coat)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base back to the bend.
  2. Tie in a tail of webby grizzly saddle fibers on the bottom, then brown fibers over the top for the salt-and-pepper mix.
  3. At the bend tie in the purple brassie wire, then the pearl flat braid, then a single dyed peacock herl by the butt.
  4. Wrap the flat braid body forward, stopping well back from the eye. There's a lot of work to do up front. Tie off.
  5. Palmer the peacock herl forward in open turns, then counter-wrap the purple wire back through it to lock it in; tie off and trim the wire.
  6. Tie in one brown and one grizzly hackle together at 45 degrees; take about one full turn of the pair, then catch the fibers around the back so they sweep down as a throat.
  7. Underwing: fold a long natural gray pheasant rump feather slightly around the body and tie it in tipped low so it reaches to the bottom of the tail. Keep the head as small as possible.
  8. Overwing: strip fibers from a purple/claret rump feather (don't tie the bare stem in. It pulls out) and tie them over the top, finishing with a wrap at the rear of the head.
  9. Build a small head, whip finish, then coat the head with Solarez Bone Dry and cure.

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