Big ol' Baby Brown

[Ozarks Chillbilly]

Spent a little time at the desk and figured up this pattern. Takes a little longer to tie but the end result was really satisfying! I'm probably going to wait a little longer until the winter season comes to fish it. Hopefully I can pull in a healthy brown on it. 

The smaller fly is a size 6 random sculpin thingy I made, just in the vise for size comparison.

Materials: 

 

Partridge of Redditch Universal Streamer Hook size #2 trailing a #1

Senyo's intruder wire

Barred marabou (olive)

Barred olive zonker strips (flesh colored)

Dyed UV polar chenille 

olive schlappen

UV2 sculpin wool

Fish skull head w/ Earth eyes

 

Hopefully it fishes well and can produce some nice fish! It has a lot of materials, meaty fly. Probably need to use at least a 6 weight to huck the thing around. Let me know what y'all think!

 

 

[fishinwrench]

Looks yummy!  I can't seem to warm up to head-weighted flys for anything other than Whites/Hybrids/Stripers.   Smallies and trout seem to be turned off by the jiggy movement, and more turned on by streamers that do the side-to-side thing.

Maybe it's just me.

[Ozarks Chillbilly]

Thanks for the input! You make a good point about the jigging action. I can agree with that even with my fairly new streamer experience. I've found that the articulation helps a bit with distributing the weight at least a little bit.

 

Would you recommend deer hair for creating heads/collars to achieve that side to side motion? I'm honestly frightened to attempt stacking hair but once you get it down I'm sure it's addictive!

 

Thanks 

[fishinwrench]

Deer hair, wool, synthetic dubbing, or anything weightless that can add bulk to the head will give you the "sub-walk".  

The idea is to displace water with the head of the fly, then when you stop or pause the displaced water collapses behind the bulky head and kicks the tail sideways.   Using a no-slip loop knot exaggerates it even further since the tippet can't keep the head of the fly from going sideways.   

If you go with deer hair, don't stack and pack, keep the head loose and fluffy.  Doesn't look as pretty in the hand but you'll catch more fish.   Guarantee it.

[Ozarks Chillbilly]

58 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Deer hair, wool, synthetic dubbing, or anything weightless that can add bulk to the head will give you the "sub-walk".  

The idea is to displace water with the head of the fly, then when you stop or pause the displaced water collapses behind the bulky head and kicks the tail sideways.   Using a no-slip loop knot exaggerates it even further since the tippet can't keep the head of the fly from going sideways.   

If you go with deer hair, don't stack and pack, keep the head loose and fluffy.  Doesn't look as pretty in the hand but you'll catch more fish.   Guarantee it.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

This is one of my go to streamer pattern profiles. Tied in multiple color schemes. The wool head definitely pushes water,him just not sure how to construct it without the lead eyes. They're pretty small though, so I'm not sure if it has side to side motion or more jigging. I guess I should just test it out in some clear water. 

[fishinwrench]

That one would definitely dance if it was minus the dumbbell eyes.  

Don't give up on the jiggy thing just because it doesn't work for me. Guys that are way better than I am at the streamer game have developed alot of jiggy type streamers.....so they must work good in some conditions. I still carry a few but I'm beginning to wonder if the thread is gonna rot before I find the niche for them.

Eastern Smallies love Clousers apparently, but a Clouser is worthless to me here in Mo. when smallmouth fishing.   Now White bass..... they'll kill a Clouser!