Bodkin / Patterns

Crazy Dad Streamer

Streamer · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Panfish · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 3X-long streamer hook, 4-8
  • Thread brown or olive 140 denier

Materials

  • Bead/eyes Bead-chain or dumbbell eyes (near bend, for jig ride) (1 pair)
  • Antennae Brown/olive rubber legs or bucktail (2)
  • Claws/legs Olive or brown Sili Legs (3 per side)
  • Butt ball Dubbing wrapped to spread the legs (1 clump)
  • Body Brown/olive dubbing in a dubbing loop (shaggy)
  • Carapace/wing Deer hair or mottled hen over the back (small bunch)

How to tie it

  1. Tie dumbbell or bead-chain eyes near the bend on the hook-point side so the finished crayfish rides hook-up (the bend becomes the 'nose').
  2. At what will be the tail end (near the eye of the hook), tie in antennae and three Sili Legs per side, then wrap a ball of dubbing behind them so the legs splay out like crayfish mouthparts and claws.
  3. Form a two-shank-long dubbing loop, load it with brown/olive dubbing, and spin it tight.
  4. Wrap the dubbing loop forward in touching turns toward the bend, stroking the fibers back, to build a shaggy body/tail.
  5. Tie a bunch of deer hair or a mottled hen feather over the back as a carapace and tie off at the bend behind the eyes.
  6. Whip finish, then trim the body to a flattened crayfish shape.

Other versions

1 more in the app: sz.

Tying videos

← All fly patterns