This is great fly to use when fishing for fry feeding trout. It is best used on a sinking line and can be either stripped back or inched slowly until you get a take. If you get hit a few times but do not solidly connect then speed up the rate of retrieve.
Materials
Hook – Long shank #10 eg Kamasan B830
Thread – White8/0
Body – Zonker strip
Underbody – White straggle fritz
Beard – Orange hackle
Eyes – Foam Booby
Tying instructionsÂ
Place the hook in the vice and run on some thread. Tie in a zonked strip in the middle. The strip should be twice the length of the shank.
Tie on the fritz and run it up to the eye in touching turns.
Tie in the beard and pull the strip over securing with a strong wrap.
Tie in the booby eyes and lash to the hook with a square lashing. Turn the hook over and place one drop of supper glue in the crevasse where the booby eye joins the hook. Use black nail varnish to create a solid eye.
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