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Zonkers imitate baitfish as well as any other fly ever created, use common materials and are easy to tie

The Tufty flies saw the light of day because of a need for some heavy metal for the author’s local high and coloured rivers

A mobile tailed baitfish pattern tied with organza and synthetic fibres

A really simple and easy little baitfish fly, which will work for a lot of different fish and can be varied endlessly

This is an impressionistic streamer, tied to match the schooling sardines being eaten by baby tarpon. It has fooled many fish

A lot of flies are tied on very short hooks, still featuring quite long bodies/wings to imitate small fish. This article looks into that style.

This simple hollow tied baitfish will be great for a lot of different species, in saltwater as well as in freshwater.

Too much about airplane food... and too little about fly tying and fly fishing. An ancient pattern from the Illustrated Pattern Swap year 2000.

It's a easy fly to tie - and it produced fish back then and can do so again in this mundane version

I can hardly believe that the fall is almost here. I've been checking out the salmon returning to the tributaries this past week and am glad to see...

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.

Ray Brook's classic the Sunray Shadow can hardly be outdone by any variation of this simple yet very efficient fly. But some people still like to add little details to killer patterns. This version of the Sunray has a body and eyes.

Until now The Epoxy Miracle has given me quite a few fish and still is my favorite baitfish imitation. It is perfect under most circumstances.
But, sometimes it seems too small for the big sea trout, which come close to the South Swedish shore from January to March.

A wish for a generic bait imitation was what made Kasper Mühlbach develop a fly, which he originally dubbed the Epoxy Triumph; A small epoxied baitfish imitation along the lines of the American tradition.

This fly was since modified a bit, and is now the Epoxy Miracle.

Lake Erie Shiner is a Killing Bucktail from the vise of Floyd Franke

This is a well know species that is easily identified. Key characteristics are the strongly compressed rather elliptical body, a small pointed head, strongly downward curving lateral ling, a long sickle-shaped anal fin, and a thin scaleless keel on the midline of the belly behind the pelvic fins.

"All dace are not created equal". Although they may look pretty much the same to us, fish much prefer the females with their orange and yellow bellies. I soon noticed that when I sewed on this colorful variation, a strike was not far off.

This in one of several articles in a series being created as a group effort by members of the Streamer List to provide some background information on the species of forage fish we most commonly try to immitate with streamer patterns.

A selection of saltwater patterns from Chris Edghill

The intent of this swap was for each member to provide a dozen streamers which represented the Rainbow Smelt in casting sizes. Some of the entries were "recognized" patterns, but many were original dressings.