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Mickey Finn

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Pike · Beginner · 1 version

Mickey Finn fly

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Streamer, 3x long, 6-10
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Body Flat silver tinsel (wrapped)
  • Rib Oval silver tinsel (4 inches)
  • Wing Yellow and red bucktail (layered)

How to tie it

  1. Mount hook, wrap a smooth flat silver tinsel body to the 75% mark, then rib it with oval tinsel in 4-5 turns.
  2. Tie in a sparse layer of yellow bucktail, tips just past the bend.
  3. Tie in an equally sparse layer of red bucktail over it.
  4. Top with a final sparse layer of yellow, yellow, red, yellow, each layer visible.
  5. Build a neat lacquered head, whip finish.

Substitutions

  • Body instead of Flat silver tinsel: Silver Diamond Braid — More durable; Silver Mylar tubing — Slide over shank, fast
  • Wing instead of Yellow and red bucktail: Yellow and red EP Fibers — Synthetic, dries faster; Yellow and red craft fur — Softer movement

Tying videos

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