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Sculpin Slider

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook 4XL streamer, 2-6
• Thread brown 210 denier

Materials

• Lead-free wire - (10-12 wraps (optional))
• Rabbit strip or marabou Mottled brown/olive rabbit strip or marabou (1 (tail))
• Krystal Flash Copper flashabou (4 strands)
• Dubbing or chenille Mottled brown dubbing or chenille (1 length)
• Deer hair Natural/olive deer hair (several clumps (head))

How to tie it

1. Lay a thread base to the bend; optionally add lead-free wraps under the front third to help it get down.
2. Tie in a marabou or rabbit-strip tail one shank long, with a couple of flash strands.
3. Dub or wrap a mottled body forward to the 60% mark.
4. Spin bunches of deer hair from the 60% mark to the eye, packing each clump tight against the last.
5. Whip finish at the eye.
6. Trim the deer hair to a broad, flat-bottomed sculpin head with a swept collar. Blunt and wide on top, flat underneath so it planes and slides rather than rolls.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

• Sculpin Slider — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Sculpin Slider — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Sculpin Slider — Angler's Covey (YouTube)
• Sculpin Slider — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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