Tuesday Tie

Hook: Daiichi Size 8 No. 2220 hook
Thread: White Orvis G
Materials: 4" barred rabbit strip, ice dubbing, 6" piece Crystal Trilobal Hackle, Red Bead, 4" piece of 7x tippet.
Tools: bobbin, scissors, whip finish tool


This is a sick fall trout streamer or steelhead fly. It is like a traditional zonker, but it has more underbody movement and flash from the crystal hackle, and a bead that looks like an egg. This fly can be dead drifted trough a run below spawning fish, swinging across the river, or stripping it in. This is a newer pattern that I had developed but it will be one of the most used streamer patterns in my box. The colors that I have fished and that worked well are pink/purple/white, Black/purple, and orange/green/pink.

Step 1: loop piece of tippet through the hole in the bead and tie the ends of the tippet down to the hook shank. Do a base coat with the thread. (make sure to leave the bead head far enough away from the eye of the hook so that you can easily move it out of the way so you can easily tie a knot when you want to fish it)

Step 2: at the back of the hook shank, tie in the strip of rabbit fur. Tie it in so there is a  tag end going towards the eye of the hook (this tag end will be pulled over the top later)

Step 3: tie in the strip of crystal hackle underneath the rabbit strip. 

Step 4: twist dubbing onto the thread and wrap the dubbing up the hook shank towards the eye to give the fly some body/thickness.

Step 5: wrap the crystal hackle up overtop the dubbing towards the eye of the hook and tie off when at the front of the fly. Take the tag end of the rabbit strip that is going toward the eye of the hook and pull it overtop the crystal hackle and tie the end of it down in the same place you tied the hackle off at. 

Step 6: create a small, tight head behind the bead. Whip finish and apply head cement.