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Egg Bandit Sculpin

Streamer · Trout · Steelhead · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Streamer/jig hook, barbless, #2-#6
  • Thread Olive or tan 6/0 or 140 denier

Materials

  • Head Sculpin helmet or lead dumbbell, olive/natural (1)
  • Tail Olive/tan rabbit zonker strip (1 strip)
  • Flash Copper/pearl Flashabou (Few strands)
  • Body Olive rabbit dubbing or palmered zonker (As needed)
  • Collar Olive schlappen or mallard flank (1 feather)
  • Hotspot/Egg Hot orange ice dub / egg yarn (Pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and lash the sculpin helmet or dumbbell near the eye so the fly rides hook-point up; start thread behind it.
  2. Tie in the rabbit zonker at the bend so the fur tail extends about one shank length past the hook.
  3. Add a few strands of copper flash along each side of the tail.
  4. Dub a shaggy rabbit body or palmer the zonker forward to just behind the head.
  5. Wrap a schlappen or mallard collar and sweep the fibers back as pectoral fins and gills.
  6. Build a bright orange egg-hotspot collar right behind the head as the trigger, then slide the helmet into place and whip finish.
  7. Brush out the body so it breathes in the current.

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