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Project Sculpin

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Wide-gap streamer hook (Gamakatsu B10S), 1-4
  • Thread Tan (210 denier) 210 denier + black GSP

Materials

  • Tungsten bead Gold bead (1 (3.8mm))
  • Rabbit zonker strip (tail) Gold grizzly, black-barred rabbit zonker strip (1 strip)
  • Ice Dub (body) Gold ice dub (1 pinch)
  • Sculpin wool (head) Tan, brown, cream, black sculpin wool (several clumps)
  • UV resin (eyes) Clear uv resin (as needed)
  • Tying markers Black, delta brown (for barring)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the gold tungsten bead to the eye and start the tan thread behind it.
  2. Tie in the rabbit zonker strip at the bend for the tail, one to one-and-a-half shanks long; hide the skin under a couple of wraps and lock it with a drop of cement.
  3. Dub a shaggy gold Ice Dub body forward over the rear two-thirds, leaving the front third bare for the head.
  4. Switch to black GSP. Cut small clumps of sculpin wool and spin/stack them around the shank, packing each clump tight against the last, running cream on the belly and tan/brown on top, up to the bead.
  5. Whip finish behind the bead and remove the fly from the vise.
  6. Trim the spun wool to a broad, flat, wide sculpin head, full and blocky up top and tapered underneath.
  7. Bar the top of the head with black and brown markers, then add UV-resin eyes on each side and cure to 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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