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Party Girl

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Articulated streamer: Waddington/streamer shank with a trailing octopus stinger hook, 4 (stinger) on 35mm shank
  • Thread Chartreuse/Yellow 6/0

Materials

  • Streamer shank - (35mm)
  • Stinger hook - (1, Gamakatsu Octopus #4)
  • Backing / braided loop - (20 lb, to connect stinger)
  • Polar Reflector / flash Yellow flash (tail)
  • Schlappen Yellow/olive schlappen (body hackle)
  • Dumbbell / pseudo eyes Silver bead chain eyes medium (1 pair, medium)

How to tie it

  1. Rig a loop of 20 lb backing through the eye of the octopus stinger hook and lash both tag ends along the shank, leaving a short gap so the hook rides just off the rear of the shank; whip and cement this junction.
  2. Restart the thread at the rear of the shank and tie in a sparse tail of yellow reflector flash about one shank length long.
  3. Tie in a schlappen feather by the tip at the rear.
  4. Wind the thread forward to the 80% mark, then palmer the schlappen forward in open, wet turns, stroking fibers back, and tie off; this makes a soft, pulsing body.
  5. Figure-8 a pair of medium pseudo/dumbbell eyes on top of the shank near the front so the fly rides hook-point up.
  6. Build a smooth thread head around the eyes, whip finish and cement.

Tying videos

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