Fished Montauk Day After Christmas!

[Idylwilde]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_JjQbx5uk&list=UUTjH4zyJjYQbe_3dDCwVmvg

[Wornica]

Lots of action there! Was that a woolly bugger?

[Idylwilde]

Wornica It was a #11 Chartreuse bead head Crackle Back.

[kbbgood]

Can you send a material list of the crackle back? Would like to see the chartreuse one.

[Lancer09]

Can you send a material list of the crackle back? Would like to see the chartreuse one.

Just search crackleback or google it.

any chartreuse body would work. Even thread.

[Idylwilde]

This is all you need.

French braid, Tungsten 5/64 bead, 3/0 thread, #11 barbless hook, Whiting high & dry hackle Hot Chartreuse! Note if you place a thin coat of hard nails polish on the braid before you wrap the hackle the fly will catch MANY fish without breaking the hackle if you do not use forceps on it.

[Idylwilde]

What everyone is calling this fly is a Crackle Back, It is not anything like the Story Crackle Back. It is a variant on it. The smaller sizes like #18-22 is actually a midge pattern like a Griffin gnat. It 2009 I started tying this pattern for reed's cabins shop, and I used different tinsel colors like Black and blue, brown and gold. I started using the French Braid last year. I never used a bead on any of the old patterns. I have no idea why the fish like then so well but they do. I have fished them on several rivers with great results.

The hackle color seems to be just as important as the body color. I have noticed that fish seem to turn down the fly if the hackle is a different color than the body.

[brittsnbirds]

What everyone is calling this fly is a Crackle Back, It is not anything like the Story Crackle Back. It is a variant on it. The smaller sizes like #18-22 is actually a midge pattern like a Griffin gnat. It 2009 I started tying this pattern for reed's cabins shop, and I used different tinsel colors like Black and blue, brown and gold. I started using the French Braid last year. I never used a bead on any of the old patterns. I have no idea why the fish like then so well but they do. I have fished them on several rivers with great results.

The hackle color seems to be just as important as the body color. I have noticed that fish seem to turn down the fly if the hackle is a different color than the body.

You are so right. After tying the "FC Crackleback" for many years I decided to go back to the original Ed Story version. I have found over the years that the trout seem to like the older "original" as apposed to the Hybrid versions. I have found myself going back to the original more and more. Not to say that I don't try one of the MANY hybrids that I have tied.