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Silent Bob

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Advanced · 2 versions

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Piscator Flies dressing

  • Hook Firehole 315, 10-16
  • Thread Olive (70d 8/0

Materials

  • Weight 4-6 wraps of non-lead wire (0.035)
  • Tail 2 strand pearl or olive crystal flash
  • Shellback 12-16 pheasant tail fibers
  • Body Olive Senyo’s Laser Dub or sub
  • Legs Brown goose biots
  • Head Olive Senyo’s Laser Dub or sub
  • Coating Bone Dry UV resin

How to tie it

  1. Start thread mid-shank and tie in an olive rabbit-strip tail about 1.5 shank lengths long, hiding the hook point under the fur.
  2. Slide a gold tungsten bead onto the shank ahead of the tail for belly weight and lock it with thread dams front and back.
  3. Dub a stripe of UV pearl Ice Dub along the underside forward of the bead as the belly.
  4. Build a hot gill pack of red Ice Dub, then wrap a collar of barred Predator Wrap and sweep it back.
  5. Switch to GSP thread. Stack a clump of deer hair, spin it around the shank, and pack it tight.
  6. Add and pack 2-3 more clumps to the eye, keeping the belly hair sparse and the top dense.
  7. Whip finish at the eye, then trim the head flat and wide like a sculpin (broad on top, shaved flat underneath) leaving a swept collar.
  8. Cement the whip finish and the thread base beneath the hair.

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