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Here is SBS for wool head pike streamer I’ve posted earlier. It is kind of new type of pike streamers for me. It should be hard to cast, but also will make lots of noise underwater because of bulky wool head. For these streamers I’ve used short-shank-big-gap carp hooks (they are sharp as hell… poor fingers :] Used the same:

“sculpin wool” I bought in sewing craft store. This wool is used to make these or these. Costed me a buck for one big pack of wool.

This wool comes in variety of colors and could be used to tie any color combinations. This one is “fire tiger” (maybe I should paint stripes with permanent marker).

Materials used:

• carp hook size 3/0
• some lead for weight
• synthetic fur in yellow, green and chartreuse
• couple feathers of marabou
• yellow wool and doll eyes

make a thick mono loop. It should prevent tail from tangling around the hook:

tie in green marabou (actually it’s a turkey)

wrap it

do the same with yellow “marabou”

nice heh?

tie in big bunch of wool (actually I will make tutorial how to make wool heads)

bend it back and put a drop of superglue

repeat as many times as you need to cover hook shank, again drop of superglue, clip off thread

form a nice flat head (round, slim, wide – as you wish)

glue in doll eyes

and that’s it :]

still playing with wool. Tied this big-red-head for pike using the same technique. Big bulky head will make lots of noise under water and will give extra movement for tail.

Ingredients:

• carp hook,
• white craft fur,
• some flash,
• red marabou heather,
• red sculpin wool,
• doll eyes

other color combinations:

Yellow head:

Tied this one little fella as a present for friends. Ingredients: leather strip for tail, gray and tan wool, doll eyes.. and couple drops of super glue :]

Decided to try out my new “sculpin wool” I bought in sewing craft store. This wool is used to make these or these. Costed me a buck for one big pack of wool. Started to tie like an ordinary streamer, then cut all off and tied with stringer hook.

Materials used:

• olive zonker strip
• olive chickabou feathers
• olive wool for back
• tan wool for belly
• main hook – cheap worm hook (with barbs on the shank), stinger – carp hook
• tungsten eyes

As I look to it now, it reminds me froggy rather than sculpin :/
I will name it – frolpin :]

Updated:
Last evening tied  sculpin that looks like sculpin (more or less)… Need to buy smaller eyes :]

scary ha? :]

All kind of leeches are very successful patterns for early spring trout fishing. Lamprey are migrating to their spawning grounds and are easy pray for hungry trout. Presentation should be slow and as near to bottom as can be. Sinking or sink tip lines are must. But first – we need to tie some flies.

Here is a try to make a simple one material streamer. So we will need mink fur strip (long enough to match real lamprey length), two hooks, some backing (braided line) and eyes (optional – dumbbell or beadchain). Front hook is kind of worm or similar to that – he has two barbs on the shank. It will help to fasten rear hook better.

tie in mink strip (somewhere in the middle)

palmer the rest of strip towards

tie in eyes

make dubbing loop, tie around the eyes

cut the front hook

attach rear hook (loop to loop technique) and that’s it

Grey Frede is the famous danish sea-trout fly. You can find lots of info about Frede on GFF [globalflyfisher.com]. It has many variations – copper frede, magnus and so on. It is very simple fly – you need just one material to tie it – grizzly chickabou (and hook, eyes, lead and thread of course). So, here I’ve mentioned all needed materials. Later will post tying sequence of Grey Frede variation. Stay tuned.

and here’s a tune. This pattern is far too sexy…

So, here is SBS for pike streamer I posted earlier. I’ve never used this kind of flies, because I had light rod (7wt.), and it’s not easy to cast such fur ball, soaked with water… And this streamer because of very heavy dumbbell eyes weights 4 g. … I can imagine, it will be hell to cast, but also streamer will have lots of up-and-down movement in the water. Some test drive on the water will show who is who

This is slightly modified version of Pike bunny streamer. Instead of cross-cut rabbit strip, I’ve used synthetic flash material (bought in craft store – it is kind of decoration stuff for sewing) and synthetic fur.

Materials used:

• Front hook – saltwater Varivas hook, rear hook – smaller carp hook;
• Wire strand for mounting rear hook;
• Dumbbell eyes;
• Rabbit strip;
• Some flash and synthetic fur.

Finished fly:

This plastic coated wire strand I’ve bought in craft store. It is used for making necklaces.

this picture shows how flash material exposes trough synthetic fur creating very lifelike look