| Recipe | |
| Hook | Streamer - 3x long, size 4-12 |
| Thread: | Black (or color to match chenille) thread - 6/0 |
| Tail: | Marabou - either black, olive or other color to match the chenille |
| Body: | chenille - medium ultra chenille works best |
| Hackle: | Color to match |
| Head: | gold bead head of appropriate size |
Crimp barb on the hook and place bead behind the eye. Wrap the hook with thread, then tie in a clump of marabou feathers for the tail. Wrap the hook with appropriate weight (10-20 wraps of lead depending on preference). Tie in hackle, gold wire and chenille. Wrap thread forward and secure lead wraps with the thread, ending thread behind the bead. Wrap chenille forward and tie off just behind the bead. Wrap the hackle forward and tie off, then counter wrap the gold wire to secure the hackle. Whip finish and cement if desired.
Steve's comment to his fly:
I have used this fly successfully in many different parts of the US, including Yellowstone, Montana and Oregon. I have caught browns, rainbows, cutthroat and steelhead on this pattern. There are a multitude of different colors that this can be tied in, including black, olive, olive body and tail with black hackle, purple, and brown. For a variation that is extremely effective where there are spawning fish, replace the bead head with a couple of wraps of red or orange chenille to form an egg sucking leech. For steelhead, purple is the color of choice, along with the egg head. I caught a couple of nice late summer steelhead in Oregon the first of September with just this pattern. This weekend I also caught a 17 inch rainbow on a black pattern identical to the one in the swap. The other nice thing about this fly is that it can be swung like a wet fly, dead drifted like a standard nymph, or stripped to imitate a wounded baitfish. I guess the reason I selected this pattern is that I don't go out on a stream or lake without a box of these with me.