sculpin

[Fred H. 0]

we don't have these down here . I did this from a pic in a book, so let me know if color and proportions are ok.

 

added this picture to show scale .this is tied on a #10 4x hook.

[Redwings1 0]

Looks pretty close Fred. Maybe the tail a little less rounded. Can you post a top shot of it? I ask because that is the truly important angle on a sculpin since they always hug the bottom and that is the best angle to view the fat shovel-like head in to the skinny body

[Fred H. 0]

redwings1, I reshaped the tail and took another pic and another to scale and edited the post.

[Fred H. 0]

here is an overhead view. I had a pic with only side shot so I don't know if this is correct.

[Fred H. 0]

can you guys help me with some feed back on this.I only had one picture to go by and I'm not sure if this looks like its suppose to.

[nymph chucker 0]

I sure will!! from the top it honestly looks just like a sculpin great job

[Fred H. 0]

thanks nymph chucker, in the pic I had he was flarring his gills . I dont know if that came across or if it looks like I missed on the head.

[Andrés T 0]

Great! Fred

[flytyerboy95 0]

i think he should have a flater head cause they'er more of a bottom feeder. just my two cents

[Fred H. 0]

flytyerboy95, thanks for the comment. The only photo I have has the sculpin is with his mouth open and his gills flared.So I tried to do that. I just didn't do it very well. Now that I look at it , I think if I had made the lower gill plates much lighter it would have shown up better. Thanks for pointing that out . I knew something was wrong but couldn't see it.

[flytyerboy95 0]

just go to google images and type in Sculpin im sure you could find plenty of references(sp?)

[British mike 0]

Looks good to me Fred....................great tie

 

Mike.....................