Archive for February, 2010

Here is the second part of my selection

see Part I

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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 :]

Here we go – the first part of salmon fly selection. Later will post some SBS’s  and recipes.

Stay tuned!

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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 :]

Hard day at office in ministry of culture :] tying this fella:

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? :]