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Silver Smelt

Streamer · Baitfish · Trout · Salmon · Intermediate · 1 version

Tyer Recipe

  • Hook 4xl-6xl streamer hook, 4-8
  • Thread white or grey 6/0

Materials

  • Body Flat silver tinsel (shank length)
  • Rib Silver oval tinsel (1 strand)
  • Underwing White bucktail (sparse bunch)
  • Overwing Grey/olive over blue flash (sparse bunch plus a few strands flash)
  • Throat White bucktail or hackle (small)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread behind the eye and run a smooth base to the bend above the barb.
  2. Wrap flat silver tinsel forward for a bright body and rib with oval tinsel in open turns.
  3. Tie in a sparse white bucktail throat/belly under the shank.
  4. Stack a sparse white underwing, then a grey or olive overwing with a few strands of blue flash, roughly one and a half shank lengths long.
  5. Form a neat tapered head, whip finish, and optionally add painted eyes.

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