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Electric Chicken Clouser

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Electric Chicken (chartreuse over pink) is a really popular and productive color around the Georgia coast so I tied up a few clousers in Electric Chicken.

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It also been a productive color here in south Florida too. I use it both in soft plastic when I use my spinning gear and flies when I use my fly gear.

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Funny enough I had yet to catch anything on Electric Chicken plastics! I tied some up a few weeks ago and hadn't caught anything. So I tied on one of these and instantly started catching fish! Including my first Redfish on the fly! They were all little guys but they were agressive and put a decent little bend in the ol 8wt!

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I see you put both colors above the eyes. Is there a purpose to doing that?

Normally I put one below and one above the eye.

That is also a popular color in the Tampa area, fly and plastic.

I can't keept the trout off of the nuclear chicken Gulp's

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I see you put both colors above the eyes. Is there a purpose to doing that?

Normally I put one below and one above the eye.

That is also a popular color in the Tampa area, fly and plastic.

I can't keept the trout off of the nuclear chicken Gulp's

 

 

No real good reason. I noticed bucktail gets frayed a bit when fishing in and around oyster rakes, but the fly was holding up well enough. Heck, most flies I'll probably loose before they get too beat up anyways. I just saw Lefty Kreh tie his like this in a video on how to tie saltwater flies and thought they might be a bit more durable like this, so I tried tying them like this. I figure if it's good enough for Lefty it's good enough for me!

 

And for some reason I never have been very keen on tying one clump on top and one on bottom. I've always thought that looked a bit goofy. I like this way because you can get the bucktail clumps more even and fishy-looking.

 

So I tied them like this for no real good reason.

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That's one fish on my bucket list. One of these days I'm gonna head up to the great lakes to try my hand at some steelhead!

 

Heck, I need to catch a decent sized Redfish on the fly first. :unsure:

 

I tied a clouser in this color combo in EP fibers as well:

 

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:) Nice tie. I think I will try tying it like you did.

 

 

Thanks! I just tied it like Lefty Kreh. He's forgotten more about fly fishing than I'll probably ever know.

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