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Pinky Pain

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Bright, colorful and visible. A perfect fly for slow fish in cold or murky water

By Martin Joergensen

Henrik Leth is an institution in Danish coastal fly-fishing and has been very active in the community for as long as I remember. He has of course originated several seatrout patterns, but the Pinky Pain surfaces ever so often when the talk falls on his flies.

This pattern is mentioned in Thomas Vinge's excellent books on Danish seatrout flies, but Henrik also mentions it several times on his own Danish web page. The fly has changed a bit over the years, and Henrik's current version has a hot glue body where the original had a tinsel body. The body color also varies a bit from smooth silver tinsel to gold braid - and the hot glue version, which has some sparkle mixed into the glue.

The name does actually make sense when you hear Henrik's story from its maiden voyage. On this particularly windy day, the bright fly wound up penetrating his nose!

There's nothing new about the basic fly, which is a bright, hair winged streamer, but it has proven its worth during many years in the Danish ocean.

On this particularly windy day, the bright fly wound up penetrating his nose!

Pinky Pain

Type	Cold saltwater fly
Originator	Henrik Leth
Difficulty	Easy
Target species	Sea trout (sea run)

Materials

Hook	Stainless streamer hook, straight eye size 6 or 4
Thread	Black 8/0
Body	Silver braid, silver flash straws or embossed tinsel
False hackle	Clear or pearl Crystal flash
Wing	Pink Arrctic fox topped with smooth, pink flash straws
Head	Tying thread

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