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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:

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

Here’s a simple yet effective pike pattern called “Pike bunny” – it is very easy to tie, there is no exotic, rare or expensive materials. I’ve modified it a little bit, because sometimes happens that pike grabs the long tail and ups.. there’s no hook in it. So I’ve put it there on the kevlar leader.

Materials used:

• black rabbit strip;
• black and red crosscut rabbit strips;
• dumbbell eyes;
• front hook – big carp hook, rear hook – smaller carp hook;
• 3D doll eyes (glued with super-glue).

Stay tuned, will post SBS for this fly…