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Clouser Deep Minnow

Bucktail: Only a few patterns are as generally useful and widespread as the Clouser Deep Minnow. Only a few patterns have their own entry in Wikipedia, but the Clouser Deep Minnow is up there with the Woolly Bugger, the Muddler Minnow, Grey Ghost, Royal Coachman, Diawl Bach and a few others.
Read about this simple but ingenious flly

Go to the article "Chinos!"

Chinos!

Prey: Colombian Carlos Heinsohn ties a neat baitfish pattern made of synthetic fibers. It's a tough fly with nice movement designed for any predator which feeds on smaller fish. The pattern is more a tying principle than a specific pattern.
See lots of examples here.

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Angel Body

Fat and shining: Shiny tubing materials are widely used as body material on streamers. So is ordinary tinsel. Here is a new way of making glittering, but more volumnious, pulsating and living bodies for your streamers using Angel Hair or a similar material.
Get the short step-by-step here

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The Bloody Zonker

Variation: This fly is a bright and tasty looking bite of feathers and fur that can sometimes be the key to luring a big trout. It's a variation of a variation of the Bloody Butcher.
Lots of tying steps and tips here

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Branchu

Type Streamer

Originator
Jean Guy Côte

Tied by
Martin Joergensen

Difficulty
Easy

Target species
Arctic char
Atlantic salmon (sea run)
Brook trout
Brown trout
Sea trout (sea run)
Steelhead (sea run)

Materials

Hook Kamasan B800, size 4-2
Tying thread Orange 6/0
Tail Golden Pheasant tippet
Body Orange dubbing - seal's fur or Scintilla
Wing Wood Duck flank - yellow or natural. Mallard is a possible alternative
Hackle Furnace or cree
Head Tying thread

Tying instructions

Tie in a small bunch of tippet as a tail, about half shank length or a little less
Dub the body to a slender, cylindrical shape
Taper it down in front. Leave room for wing and hackle
Tie in a small bunch of wood duck as a wing, length as the body
Tie in a hen hackle, shiny side forwards
Turn the hackle wet fly style and make shure it lies rather flat
Trim the hackle stem
Form a small head
Whip finish and varnish

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