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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
Want to Tie a Tough-As-Nails Steelhead Pattern?
The Flymen Sili-Leg Intruder is a completely synthetic Steelhead Intruder tied on the Fish-Skull Senyo's Articulated Shank for Steelhead and Salmon Flies.
Intruder-style flies are designed to trigger aggressive strikes from steelhead by "intruding" on their territory and provoking an attack.
The movement of the bulletproof sili-leg skirt coupled with the the Kona Big Game Hunter stinger hook gives you an incredibly durable and deadly Intruder pattern.
Add This Craw Pattern to Your Fly Arsenal
The Flymen Fish-Skull Craw is a realistic, yet easy to tie crawfish pattern. The Fish-Skull Shrimp & Cray tail sends this fly straight to the bottom with an enticing swimming motion. The Flymen Fish-Skull Craw dominates warm and coldwater species!
Learn to tie the Flymen Fish-Skull Craw today!
Fly Recipe
- Hook: Kona Universal Strong Streamer Hook, size 1/0
- Tail: Fish-Skull Shrimp & Cray Tail
- Antennae: Fish-Skull Faux Bucktail
- Head: Grizzly Saddle Hackle
- Flash: Senyo's Fusion Dub
- Eyes: Mono Eyes
- Claws: Rabbit Strip
- Body: Rabbit Strip
- Skirt: Sili-Legs
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 Micro Feather Game Changer is a snack-size articulated fly pattern that lands softly to avoid spooking fish, but still pushes enough water to get a predator's attention.
Imagine a fly that perfectly imitates a baitfish in your local waters, not only in profile but by swimming like a real fish and provoking the predatory instinct within your target fish... but you can still cast it with a 4wt to 6wt fly rod.
The Micro Feather Game Changer is fly a pattern developed by Blane Chocklett. This version is scaled down to about 3", and is a fantastic pattern for smaller water or picky fish.
The new Fish-Skull Chocklett's Articulated Micro-Spines open up a whole new world of possibilities for tying scaled-down Game Changer style flies.