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Fpv Minnow

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 3 versions

Note: Contested against a published dressing: Originator's dressing contradicts ours on the main materials. Ours: white/olive bucktail belly and wing, lead-free wire keel, straight-eye saltwater hook, 6/0 thread, 3D stick-on eyes. Source: Fly Fish Food (Cheech) — "FPV Minnow" streamer tutorial — https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/streamer-tutorials/fpv-minnow

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Streamer/saltwater, straight eye, #1/0-#4
  • Thread White 6/0

Materials

  • Flash Tail Pearl flashabou (clump of flash, shank length)
  • Belly White uni stretch (bucktail)
  • Wing Olive or gray material (bucktail)
  • Lateral Flash Pearl/holographic flash (few strands each side)
  • Head Clear/flexible (flexible resin over thread)
  • Eyes Silver metal tape (3D stick-on)
  • Keel Lead-free (wire wrap under shank)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and tie in a sparse pearl flash tail about a shank long at the bend.
  2. Add a low-profile keel of lead-free wire along the underside of the shank so the fly rides upright, and bind it down.
  3. Tie a white bucktail belly at the head pointing rearward, then flip and stack a darker bucktail wing on top for a two-tone baitfish back.
  4. Add a few strands of holographic flash along each side for a lateral line.
  5. Fold the fibers back and take tight thread wraps to form a tapered head shape.
  6. Coat the head with flexible resin or head cement, set stick-on eyes into it, and whip finish.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

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