Bass Magic

BThis is a relatively simple pattern. It doesn't use a lot of materials or any fancy type of tying technique, but wow does it work. In my bag that I carry there is a front compartment the opens and has foam on the from of it. I only put the most used flies there and I have a bunch of these in there. This pattern has been golden this summer, catching perch, sunfish, largemouth, rock, and smallmouth bass. It has worked on river and lake smallmouth as well as deep and shallow water largemouth and everything in between. Trust me this fly is killer. All a bass pattern needs is a rabbit strip, marabou, rubber legs and flash. that combo makes them go crazy. All I have fished this in is purple and black just because it has been working so well, but i have also tied blue, all black, white, chartreuse, orange, pink, and red. As you can tell I tie a lot of this pattern. It has a slow decent even with dumbbell eyes and that is a key feature. Tons of movement and it drives fish crazy!

Hook: size 6 (can go larger or smaller depending on fish)
Thread: ultra thread
Materials: dubbing, polar chennile, marabou, rabbit strip, dumbbell eyes
Tools: vise, bobbin, bodkin, whip finish tool, scissors

Step 1: tie in dumbbell eyes on top of the hook shank at the very front of the hook just behind the hook eye. Tie in a rabbit strip so the leather is facing up off the back of the fly

Step 2: Tie in a piece of polar chennile. Once it is tied in, use dubbing and spin dubbing around the thread and wrap the dubbing and thread up to behind the dumbbell eyes.

Step 3: Wrap the polar chennile up the body making sure the fibers lay back and don't stick straight up.  Tie off behind dumbbell eyes and clip any extra material

Step 4: Tie in 2 rubber legs on each side of the fly.

Step 5: Tie in marabou and make a marabou collar behind the dumbbell eyes. Whip fishing and apply head cement.