OINK FLASHER (RED EYE SMELT)

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PINK FLASHER (RED EYE SMELT)

Red Eye Smelt Series (originator 1998 Jocelin Leblanc)

 

Fly designed for Pike, Musky and large lake trout

 

HOOK size 1/0 to 8/0

Peacook herl

RED decoration eye

Deer hair (tail)

Mylar tubing

Kevlar thread 3/0

Craft fur matching color needed

Krystal flash

 

Step 1

 

 

Mount mylar tubing on hook (two times length of shank)

 

 

Tie with kevlar thread then glue with contact glue like crazy glue or loctite)

 

Entangle the tail section on the mylar tubing

 

 

Place peacook herl to imitate lateral line of baitfish

 

 

Place white deer hair under the hook

 

 

Krystal flash over the lateral line of peacook herl

 

 

Place craft fur on top

 

 

Place peacook herl to immitate the back of the baitfish

 

 

Glue the head of the fly with a contact type glue like crazy glue or loctite this will make the fly last with pike and musky abuse

 

Cut a small piece of mylar to finish the head of the fly.

 

 

 

Glue eyes with crazy glue or loctite glue

 

 

 

 

 

Jocelin

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