How to tie a Red Flash Mickey Finn

The Mickey Finn is great streamer for fishing rivers with fast water like the Roaring Fork in Colorado. This little minnow imitation may look like a little brown trout or perhaps a sculpin in the Fall. I like to fish a Mickey Finn as a dropper fly and move it through the water pretty quickly.

Hand Printed Long Sleeve

Fishing Shirts For Sale, $25

Watch How To Tie This Fly:

~ Click on any image to enlarge ~

Materials List:

This streamer pattern calls for a long shank hook.  I usually pick a Daiichi 2341 in sizes 2-8.

Click here to buy Long Shank Streamer Hooks

I chose to use dark brown thread for this particular fly.  I would suggest using a few different colors to see if the fish bite more often.

Click here to buy tasty Fly Tying Thread

The body of a Mickey Finn Fly is tied with Silver Mylar Tinsel

Click here to buy Mylar Tinsel

The rib of this fly is tied with silver round Micro-Tinsel.

Click here to buy Micro-Tinsel

What would a Red Flash Mickey Finn be without a little red flash?!

Click here to buy Red Flash Material

Finally, the wing of this classic streamer is tied with yellow and red buck tail.
Click here to buy Red and Yellow Buck Tails

~ Click on any image to enlarge ~

Step By Step: How to tie a Red Flash Mickey Finn

Start with a Long Shank Streamer Hook.

Use strong thread.

Tie in a stretch of Silver Round Micro Tinsel.

Add a stretch of Flat Silver Tinsel.  Be sure to use as few good wraps with the thread as you need to avoid a bulky look later in the fly.

Carefully and evenly wrap the tread back to the top of the bend of the hook.

Now warp the thread back up to a point close to the eye of the hook.

Carefully and evenly wrap the flat silver tinsel forward and tie it off.

Now carefully and evenly wrap the round silver tinsel forward and tie it off.

Add a clump of yellow bucktail.

Add a clump of red buck tail.

Tie in a few strands of red flash material.

Capt it with a final clump of yellow buck tail and whip finish to complete the fly.

Red Flash Mickey Finn

RipLips.com

The wild rivers in the Colorado Rockies are packed with hungry, streamer eating trout. Fishing with flies like a Mickey Finn can be very productive.  If you would like to take a guided fishing trip on the Colorado River or Roaring Fork River, please go to http://www.aspenflyfishing.com

"How to tie a

Red Flash Mickey Finn"

by Capt Matt Thomas