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Rocco

A Mickey Finn for Finnatics

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Nice job. Great fly in warm water for Crappie and Bass. Also great in rivers that hold sauger. In cold water, this is one of the streamers I always have on hand. Bigger Brookies and Browns seem to love them.

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Nice ! I learned to tie mine years ago from the Orvis Index of Fly Patterns book. In their version it has a little short red tail and I've always tied mine with that tag/tail on there made from red antron yarn ( a variation on the one above, otherwise identical).. I find it effective for fall brookies in Maine and May/June smallies/white perch locally. I just this year bought new replacement red and also yellow bucktail to continue tying these with.

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It is also a great steelhead fly.

 

Finding good bright red bucktails is not easy. Lots of washed out ones on offer.

 

Rocco

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I tend to play with the construction of a fly and keep the coloration. One of my favorites is a Micky Finn color scheme but the hair I use is arctic fox and the tie is a mini-clouser style with bead chain eyes on a silver, straight eyed streamer hook in sizes 10 to 14 for trout.

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It is also a great steelhead fly.

 

Finding good bright red bucktails is not easy. Lots of washed out ones on offer.

 

Rocco

I got two new red tail cuts this year, One is almost blood red, quite dark, The other more accurate as a bright red but I think both can work.. These are Hare Line large northern bucktails I bought from J Stockard. The yellow I bought is perfect. but certainly neither of these reds could be classified as muted. I like fire engine red for my mickies. My old one was more tomato soup red but it worked for years so I'm not complaining.

 

On another note I never caught a salmon on a Mickey Finn but my son did, Maybe 18 or 20" land locked in the Moose River Rockwood Maine about 20 years ago.. We have caught many brook trout on them. 2-3lb smallies seem to like them too. I originally started tying this pattern for rainbows and browns locally but found other patterns to work better depending where i'm fishing. I tie a variant on the Black Nosed Dace that gets fish, multi species. Around here anyway that out fishes the mickey generally speaking.

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