Pms (pine/marabou/streamer)

[Greg]

I always wondered what the famous PMS fly actually was. Thanks for sharing.

Greg

[Zach Bearden]

Alright Leonard... I know what you mean now! It gives it a forked tail look! gotcha!

[zsmith62]

Looked like a good fly so I thought I'd tie a few up. However, instead of using pine squirrel (didn't have any), I used zonker strips, put on some lead wire to weigh it down and added flashabou to the side to make a lateral line sort of thing. I did them in black, olive and white/grey. They look promising.

I'll post a picture or two here in a day or two.

[WebFreeman]

I've never had much luck palmering marabou. I've watched a couple you tube videos on it. Any tips Leonard or zsmith or anyone else for that matter?

[Jeremy Hunt]

Palmering marabou is best done using the select marabou. It has a longer stem that can be wrapped around several times.

[zsmith62]

Palmering marabou is best done using the select marabou. It has a longer stem that can be wrapped around several times.

Found that out the hard way...It will look kind of funny when you're doing it, but the finished product usually works out. just make sure that when you get done palmering down the marabou, you go back over it a little ways so that it flares backwards like in Leonard's pictures.

[Don]

Hey Leonard Skeonard,

I hope your foot is feelin better Bud.

I tied my PMS simpler with a blood quill plume tied straight down the shank as a tail (like a wooly bugger) and I used half as much flash, usually two different colors flash of whatever I felt like using at the time. I use pearl and red the most. I tied some with black flash on olive squirrel that I haven't tried yet. Some nights, straight up pine squirrel is the same as PMS. Other times I've seen a 2:1 difference with a PMS advantage.

Thanks.....Don

[zsmith62]

Is there any special way to fish this or is it just like your generic streamer retrieve?

[Leonard]

I like to swing drift it a deep fast water.

Toss it out, and strip the line to keep it tight. but other then that.. Just letting it set in the water.

[fly2fish]

Don't forget to tie some in black also, last time up my son's friend's girl friend wanted to tie a fly because I had everything out on the table and I said sure I need some in black anyway. All I did was put a bead on the hook and put it in the vise and told her what to do and held the strip (I was using black rabbit strips I think) then let her palmer it up to the bead and tie it off. I used it the next night when the fog set in and caught 7 the last 15 minutes I fished.