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Mohawk Sculpin 2 0

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Wide-gap streamer / stinger hook, 1/0
  • Thread Olive (or tan) 6/0

Materials

  • Fish-Skull Sculpin Helmet (heavy) Olive grizzly micro legs silicone (1)
  • Magnum rabbit strip Olive/barred magnum rabbit strip (1 strip for tail)
  • Rabbit strip or crosscut rabbit (dorsal mohawk) Olive rabbit zonker strip (1 short strip)
  • Senyo's Laser Dub or dubbing (body) Sculpin olive (pinch)
  • Flash Copper/olive flash (few strands)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base and tie in a Magnum rabbit strip tail at the bend, hide side down, about one-and-a-half shank lengths long. Wet the fur to judge length.
  2. Add a few strands of flash along each side of the tail, kept sparse.
  3. Dub or spin a stout, wide body of Senyo's Laser Dub forward, brushing it out as you go to fill the flat sculpin profile. Stop about one eye-length short of the front.
  4. Tie a short rabbit strip flat on top of the shank running forward-to-back as a 'mohawk' dorsal fin. This raised strip is the pattern's signature broad silhouette.
  5. Slide the Fish-Skull Sculpin Helmet onto the eye, seat it against the body, and lock it with tight thread wraps behind it; the heavy helmet flattens the head and sinks the fly fast.
  6. Whip finish behind the helmet, snip, and glue the head in place.

Other versions

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