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Current Tags for This Pattern
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Black /
Copper Wire /
Flash /
frog /
Grizzly /
Krystal Flash /
marabou /
olive /
peacock herl /
rattle /
Red /
Saddle /
white /
Wobble Lip Juvenile Frog
tied by Joe HardFly Type: Poppers/Sliders,
Target Species: Pike,
Recommended Region: Eastern Canada,
Imitation: Frogs,
Material List:
Glue/head cement: zap a gap ( to coat thread wraps of weed guard, wobble lip and glass rattle and zap a gap gel to add eyes)
Hook: Mustad 3191 3/o modified/straightened
Thread: UTC black for fly, white or grey for mono weed guard glass rattle and lip
Tail: in sections, light olive saddles tied matuka style, and white and olive saddles splayed each set slightly longer, and tied on each side of the first set. Gold Krystal flash tied on either side of the first matuka hackles
Rib: small copper wire
Under body: an orange tuft of marabou from a hen hackle and white uni yarn tied as far as glass rattle
Spreader: light olive Chinese neck hackle, folded and swept back, Add a strand of gold Krystal flash to the top of the shank as long as the spreader hackle, doubled
Body: 2 or 3 white marabou plumes palmer wrapped forward, pearl Krystal Flash added to the sides after each feather. Double the Krystal flash, and add a strand of gold to each side on the last palmered feather
Wing: Light olive marabou plume
Topping: 4 peacock herl strands
Sides: one grizzly hackle per side splayed and tied on the sides of the fly, extending well past the tail hackles
Collar: grizzly hackle folded and swept back
Head: Olive rams wool on top of shank with 4 strands of black Krystal flash cut up into 3 inch lengths, and white rams wool on bottom. A clump of red rams wool is substituted for the white to represent the mouth. Light olive rams wool on top and bottom of shank to complete the head, trimmed fairly large
Eyes: big doll eyes marked with dark olive sharpie on top and covered with light olive sharpie
Markings;Dark olive and black sharpies
Tying Instructions: as listed and the step by step photos
Presentation Tips: As a "diving or sliding" bass fly, in the weeds. fished near bottom on a sinking line. Jerk stripped. I have never fished this fly, but try to mimic a tadpole or juvenile frog. they like to hug bottom and flee in quick bursts and wiggle like crazy
