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Owego Streamer

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Streamer hook, 3X-5X long (tied here on a #8, 5X long), #6-10
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Duck or goose quill slip (tail) Dyed red duck quill slip (One small slip, one hook gap long)
  • Flat Mylar tinsel (rib) Silver oval tinsel (Size 14 (medium), 5 inches)
  • Wool yarn (body) Yellow wool yarn (3 inches)
  • Hen or saddle hackle fibers (throat) Dyed red hen or saddle hackle fibers (Good-sized clump, stacked)
  • Hen neck hackles (wing) Grizzly hackle (2 matched feathers)
  • Jungle cock eyes (cheeks) Natural jungle cock (2 (optional))

How to tie it

  1. Lay a base of black thread from behind the eye to the start of the bend.
  2. Tail: cut a small slip from a red-dyed duck or goose feather, set it on top of the shank about one hook gap long, take one wrap and check it before locking it in. Trim the butt off immediately so it does not build a step at the rear.
  3. Tie in the flat Mylar tinsel at the tail with the silver side toward the hook, using as few wraps as possible to keep the rear of the body slim.
  4. Body: tie in the yellow wool yarn at the tail with the smallest amount of material you can, then wrap it forward in tight touching turns, spinning the yarn clockwise as you go to keep it corded and even. Ease off the tension over the last few turns, tie off short of the eye and trim.
  5. Rib: counter-wrap the tinsel forward in six or seven evenly spaced turns. Secure it, fold the tag back and take a couple more wraps against the fold before trimming.
  6. Throat: stack a clump of red hackle fibers, tie them in under the shank a turn or two behind the head so they sweep back, check the position, lock them in and trim the butts close.
  7. Wing: pick two grizzly hen neck feathers with similar curve, pair them dull sides together and measure them to the end of the tail. Set them on top of the shank with a pinch wrap, check that they are riding straight up on the shank, then add medium wraps and trim the butts.
  8. Cheeks: lay one jungle cock eye against the near side at about a 45-degree angle with two loose wraps, match a second on the far side, double-check both for position and length, then lock them in and trim the stems.
  9. Build a tapered head back up to the eye, take a four-turn whip finish and put a generous blob of head cement on the head.

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