Brad's Sculpin

[Phil Lilley]

Sculpin recipe-

Hook: #6-8 streamer hook, heavy stock

Lead eyes: medium plain 7/32 oz

Material: zonker rabbit, saddle hackle

Thread: Wright's clear or smoke mono (Wal Mart or Lilleys)

Cement: Sally Hansen’s Liquid Hard as Nails

How to tie:

Take zonker strip and make sure hair lies down (toward tyer’s off-hand). Trim off hair to leave only skin. Hold about a half-inch strip and stab hook in the middle.

Place hook in the vise and pull the zonker back. Start thread, making sure zonker strip is not passing over curve of hook.

Wrap down toward the back of the hook then back to the front to lock it in.

Take black marker and run down back of zonker strip. Run thread back to top of eye. Take pinch of dubbing, just something to anchor eyes in with. Apply to the hook as shown.

The eyes should not be too close to the eye of the hook. Use crisscross pattern to wrap. Post it in back then come to the front and post it in front.

Apply Sally Hansen’s cement on top of the eyes and work it in. Be careful because it’s a little runny.

Wrap dubbing around and over the eyes.

Apply dubbing till the head is full and tight.

Anchor on with crisscross pattern, pulling extra dubbing out. Now your head is dubbed in. Run thread back down to end.

Next take a strip of bunny,tie it in and while angling it downwards to your off-hand, palmer it up the hook.

Keep pulling the bunny fur back as you wrap it on. Pull it tight before you cut it off.

Lay on grizzley hackle and wrap towards yourself, pulling it tight.

Turn hook upside down in vise and wrap five or six times. Then return to upright and wrap again. Whip behind the eyes and clip it off before cementing head but right side up and upside down.

Here's a live sculpin, taken out in the lake close to outlet #1.

[Leonard]

Hey phil...

Does this mean Brad is in town???

Great look sculpin....

[Phil Lilley]

Brad is married and living in Oklahoma. He's helping his parents--they are up in age and need his help. He's doing well. Brad's still ting flies for us.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I am glad to hear Brad is well.. I miss seeing him around down there.

He is such a character, not unlike myself.

Those pics are nice.. Shame I don't fish this fly very well... as I cannot see it underwater.

Part of fishing is feeling - yes - but part is seeing.

tight lines - Brian