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Showing posts with label streamers. Show all posts

How to tie a White Zonker Streamer Fly

The Zonker Fly has been around for a long time. This deadly Streamer Pattern has caught many fish over the years and I can imagine it will remain a top fly for the rest of time. Casting a white streamer is like casting a "Tracer Fly", you can watch the fish chase it down and wolf it. This White Zonker is tied with lead wire to make it heavier, but I have tied this fly many ways with great success.










Watch how to tie this fly:

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Materials List:

Zonker flies always get bites and it makes sense to use a strong streamer hook that can take the action. For this fly used a size #2 long shank streamer hook with a straight eye.

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I used Lead Wire to add weight to this fly.




Be sure to use strong fly tying thread for this streamer pattern.




The belly of this fly is tied with mylar tubing.  I have experimented with many sizes and colors and all of them get the bite.





The tail and body of this Streamer Pattern are tied with a single strip of white rabbit.





Finally, the Collar of this White Zonker is tied with a webby white hackle.  I suggest using Schlappen.
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Step By Step: How to tie a White Zonker Streamer Fly 

Start a streamer hook with lead wire.
Use strong thread.
Surround the hook with mylar tubing and tie it off.  Leave a little material off of the back of the hook to add flash to the fly.
Add a strip of white rabbit fur. tie in the middle of the strip.  After you tie off the rabbit,whip finish at this point and cut the thread.
Restart the thread at the eye of the hook.  This will tie off the mylar tubing, be sure to trim it closely.
Finally, add a number of turns of webby white hackle for the collar of the fly.  Next pull the rabbit strip forward over the hackle and tie it off at the eye. Complete this fly with a few tight whip finishes.

White Zonker Fly




Fly fishing with streamers is one of the most fun things you can do. You will have trouble finding better fishing than on the Roaring Fork River and Colorado River.  Consider booking a guided fishing trip on your vacation to the Colorado Rockies, you will be impressed.  Go to http://www.aspenflyfishing.com



How to tie a
White Zonker Streamer Fly
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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.

Streamer Fly







Watch How To Tie This Fly:

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Materials List:

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




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.




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




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




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




Finally, the wing of this classic streamer is tied with yellow and red buck tail.
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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



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
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How to tie an Olive Wooly Bugger


The Wooly Bugger is perhaps the most popular streamer pattern. Wooly Bugger Flies are a great imitations of nervous bait fish and swimming nymphs. This particular Olive Wooly Bugger Fly is tied with lead wire to make it sink faster.  Personally, my favorite fish to cast a Wooly Bugger at is carp.

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 Watch how to tie this fly:


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Materials List:

For all of my Wooly Buggers I make sure to use strong hooks.  For this particular fly I chose to use a straight eye, size #2 streamer hook.  Wooly Buggers are most often tied in sizes #8, #6, #4, #2.
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In this fly tying video demonstration, I used Lead Wire to weight the fly.  I have tied Wooly Buggers with and without weight, and the trout still bite.



Using strong thread for all of your streamer patterns is very important.  This streamer is going to take quite a bit of abuse.  I suggest Danville's Waxed FlyMaster Plus.




I used Copper wire for the rib of this fly. Using a copper rib is essential for the durability of this fly.




For the tail of this Wooly Bugger I chose to use Barred Olive Marabou.  This fly can also be tied with simple Olive Marabou or any other color the grabs you for that matter.




The body of this popular streamer is tied with an olive pattern chenille.  This is another part of this fly where you can use many different colors.




The hackle of this Olive Wooly Bugger is tied with Olive Chicken Feathers.  I like to use strung feathers and schlappen for my streamer hackles.
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 Step By Step: How to tie an Olive Wooly Bugger



Start with a strong hook
Use Lead Wire to add weight to the fly
Begin tying with strong thread  and wrap it back to the top of the bend of the hook
Add a nice clump of marabou for the tail
Tie in a stretch of Copper wire for the rib of the fly
Now tie in a length of chenille
Add two Olive Streamer hackles. Line them up together and then tie them in tips first
Wrap the Chenille Forward
Wrap the Hackles forward
Now counter wrap the Copper Wire up to the eye.  Take some time and pick out the hackle that is trapped under the wire and there you have it!

Olive Wooly Bugger





 

Streamer fishing is one of the most exciting ways to catch a fish. Olive Wooly Buggers work on bass, carp, all trout and many more species.  If you would like to fly fish in Colorado with streamers, contact Capt Matt Thomas http://riplips.com/coloradopage.html



"How to tie an
Olive Wooly Bugger"


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