Flash Sculpin

Hook: size 1 salmon hook

Thread: Black Orvis G thread

Materials: Crystal Flash, 4 Saddle hackle, 4 inch rabbit fur strip, dubbing

Tools: scissors, vise, bobbin, whip finish tool.

This is another pattern that I have unfortunately not been able to fish yet. I have fished patterns like it but not this specific one. My view of the pattern was for it to be a steelhead/trout pattern, but it could be changed very easily to a bass pattern or a general pattern. 

Step 1: start the thread and wrap towards the bend of the hook.

Step 2: when the thread is even with the point of the hook, tie in 2 saddle hackles to each side of the fly (The hackles should be about 2 1/2 - 3 inches long off the back). 

Step 3: Tie in crystal flash to each side of the fly.

Step 4: Tie in the rabbit strip. leave enough of the rabbit strip so you can pull it to the front of the fly so it reaches the a point about 1/8th inch behind the eye.

Step 5: spin dubbing around the thread and make a dubbing body

Step 6: Pull the end of the rabbit strip towards the front of the fly and tie down 1/8 inch behind the hook eye.

Step 7: make a head out of dubbing by tying down 4 separate pinches of dubbing that circumscribe the head of the fly. (tie the pinches down in the middle and fold the tag end back towards the rear of the fly)

Step 8: Whip finish. Manipulate the dubbing that makes the head so a shape you want and then apply head cement to not only the thread but the front of the dubbing head (this will make it so the head stays in the shape you want).