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The Golden Nugget Is a Modern Medium-Size Baitfish Imitation
The Golden Nugget is easy to tie and highly effective on the water! Using the Fish-Skull Baitfish Head to help with swimming action, profile, and depth, this versatile streamer fly pattern can be fished for most freshwater and saltwater applications.
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Fly Recipe
- Hook: Kona Universal Strong Streamer (USS) hook, size #2
- Tail: Rabbit Strip
- Underbody: Ice Wing Fiber
- Wing/Body: Laser Dub
- Body/Belly: Fly Fish Food Bruiser Blend
- Head: Fish-Skull Baitfish Head, small-medium
- Eyes: Fish-Skull Living Eyes, 4 mm
The Mohawk Sculpin, Created by Cheech Pierce of Fly Fish Food, Is a Super Fun and Easy Sculpin Pattern To Tie
With its wide profile and short stature, the silhouette of the Mohawk Sculpin is a perfect match to the real thing and is sure to trigger predatory attacks.
The extra-heavy Fish-Skull Sculpin Helmet helps the Mohawk Sculpin drop like a rock to the bottom and this sculpin fly pattern even has a little extra "bling" from the new Hareline Magnum Bling Rabbit Strips.
Learn to tie Cheech's Mohawk Sculpin today!
Fly Recipe
- Hook: Kona Universal Strong Streamer Hook, size 1/0
- Undertail: Marabou
- Underbody: Senyo's Fusion Dub
- Pectoral Fins: Sili-Legs
- Collar: Schlappen
- Wing: Magnum Bling Rabbit Strip
- Head: Fish-Skull Sculpin Helmet
- Eyes: Fish-Skull Living Eyes
The Flymen Big Game Needlefish Puts a Next-Generation Spin on a Staple Barracuda Fly
This fly will move Barracuda in Belize, Pike in Canada, and sizing it up or down it will catch musky, smallmouth, and trout in your local fishery as well.
Fish-Skull Body Tubing creates the elongated body of a Needlefish, and a Big Game Articulated Shank adds extra swimming action to attract your target species. Super fun tie!
The Perdigon Has Taken the Euro-Style Fishing World by Storm.
This simple yet very fishy fly has everything that fast-water fly anglers are looking for... An endless choice of colors, instant sinkability, and 1000% bulletproof.
Fish the Heavy Metal Perdigon on its own, under a dry fly, or with a team of other nymphs – just fish it!
Fly Recipe
- Hook: Kona Barbless Jig Hook (BJH), size #10 used in video (sizes can range from #10 - #16)
- Head: Nymph-Head Heavy Metal tungsten bead, size 4.0 mm (5/32") used in video (adjust size to match hook)
- Tail: CDL, Mallard, or any barred feathers.
- Rib: UTC Ultra-Wire
- Body: Flashabou
- Hot-Spot: Orange Thread
- Wing Case: Loon UV Fly Finish BLACK
- Body Coating: Coat the whole fly in Loon UV Thin
The original Copper John is a staple in most fly boxes — the Heavy Metal Rubber Leg Copper John is a next-generation take on this classic fly pattern.
Using the Nymph-Head Heavy Metal tungsten beads that are 15% heavier than standard tungsten beads of the same size and come in a wide array of colors, the possibilities for this pattern are endless. You can fish it in a variety of ways, from fishing it as an anchor fly in a Euro setup to a regular attractor under an indicator, fish this fly DEEP — trust me, it will get there.
Fly Recipe
- Hook: Kona Wet Fly Nymph size #10
- Bead: Nymph-Head Heavy Metal tungsten bead size 5/32"
- Wire: .025 Lead Wire
- Tail: Sili-Legs
- Body: Ultra Wire
- Wing Case: UV Chewee Skin
- Over Case: Flashabou
- Thorax: Ice Dub
- Legs: Sili-Legs
- Wing Case Gas Bubble: Loon UV Resin Thick