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Deep Minnow Stinger

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

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard streamer/saltwater hook with rear stinger hook, 1/0-4
  • Thread White 3/0

Materials

  • Eyes Silver/red material (Lead or brass dumbbell eyes)
  • Stinger Hook n/a (Short-shank hook on wire or braid loop)
  • Belly White uni stretch (Bucktail (tied on top, rides down))
  • Flash Pearl/silver flashabou (Krystal Flash or Flashabou, a few strands)
  • Wing Chartreuse or olive micro tubing (Bucktail over the flash)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the front hook and lash a short-shank stinger hook to the rear on a wire or braid loop, riding point-up to match the finished fly.
  2. Bind dumbbell eyes on top of the shank about one eye-width back from the hook eye. Mounting them on top makes the fly ride point-up and hook-guard.
  3. Behind the eyes, tie a clump of white bucktail on TOP of the shank; when the fly flips over, this becomes the belly.
  4. Add a few strands of pearl or silver flash the length of the wing.
  5. Ahead of the eyes, tie a clump of chartreuse or olive bucktail on top for the back, sweeping it over the eyes.
  6. Figure-8 thread around the eyes to lock everything, build a small head, and whip finish.
  7. Cement the head.

Tying videos

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