Daily Archives: January 27, 2018

By Dave S This is a no-nonsense, easy to tie pattern that just works. The rubber legs and artic fox add heaps of movement, and the lead eyes will get your fly down and add a nice jerk motion when fished with a floating or intermediate line. I always have a few of these in my box for bass or inshore/ bay saltwater fishing. Tie these up in your local colors, chuck them out and go get bent! Materials: Hook - Saltwater Size 4 Hook Eyes - Hareline Dubbin Medium Painted Lead Eyes Thread - Veevus 6/0 Brown Tail - Fly Enhancement Legs Chartreuse/Olive/Black Body - Medium Variegated Chenille Black/Olive Wing - Hareline Dubbin Olive Artic Fox tail Flash - Gold Krystal flash Weed Guard (optional) - Hard Mono 30# Step 1: Clamp down on that barb with some Loon Rouge Debarb Pliers. Let's keep this game civilized and give the fish a slight chance. Step 2: Wrap thread onto hook till about half-way down the shank. Come up to the ¼ mark and tie your dumbbell eyes in, using a figure eight. I like to add a bit of super glue at this point. It'll help keep the eyes from spinning and make sure everything is bomb proof. Step 3: Wrap thread to right before the bend and tie in two legs, right at their mid-point. Then fold the legs over and tie in to the bend of the hook. Step 4: Tie in the Chenille and wrap with touching turns to the eyes. Step 5: Tie in two more rubber legs at their mid point and pull them back. Take the thread back behind the eyes and secure them in place. Step 6: Tie in two strips of Krystal flash on each side. Step 7: Cut off a strip of Artic fur. Remove the under fur with a lice brush or by hand. Tie that in on top of the fly. Trim the extra hair on an angle and create a nice thread head. Step 8: (Optional - Skip to Step 9 if not tying in a weed gaurd) Take a piece of Mason's Hard Mono (30#) and tie in as a weed guard. Whip finish behind the weed guard and trim to length. Step 9: Add some head cement or UV cure epoxy to really seal in the flavor. Make sure you get the underside as well. Feel free to trim the legs to a desired length. I'm a long legs kind of guy. But don't let that influence you. You do you.