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Squirrel Zonker

This is an update to one of the first patterns ever featured on the Global FlyFisher. The old article about this fly is from 1996, and has been on the site with its scanned B/W pictures ever since.

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Thick skinned
Sea trout love it
Thick-skinned
Martin Joergensen

This is an update to one of the first patterns ever featured on one of the forefathers of the Global FlyFisher - Fishing Denmark. The old article about this fly is more than 16 years old at the present time, and has been out there with its scanned B/W fly picture since then.

Now I have retied the fly in connection with an upcoming article series on zonkers and zonker strips, and done a step-by-step series of photos. I've tied the fly many times during the many years that have passed, but just never photographed it.

The fly is an excellent, small and generic baitfish imitation, which has caught numerous seatrout in its time, and is bound to be able to work on brownies, stripers, bass, snook and many other predatory fish. I fish it on a floating line and simply retrieve it in small jerks to make it act like a swimming fish. I tie small flies like this onto my tippet using a loop knot, allowing them to move more freely.


Squirrel Zonker

Wet fly
Martin Joergensen
sea trout (sea run)
smallmouth bass
Hook Kamasan B175 size 6
Thread Black 8/0
Rib Fine oval tinsel
Body Medium silver tinsel
Wing Zonker strip, natural squirrel, tanned
Hackle Hair hackle, same as wing
Head Tying thread
Easy
The finished Squirrel Zonker
Done
Martin Joergensen
Many years ago
For sea trout
Sea run brown trout
Martin Joergensen

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