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Prepping for some heavy pocket water, WWE style, coho wrestling with the coming rain next week. Tied these tried and true polar shrimp variants on ringed tuna live bait hooks. Might seem a tad overkill, but they sink like rocks, are sticky sharp, and effectively unbreakable. Perfect for whitewater slot fishing

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Wayne Kohan said:
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Top one hooked me up yesterday, lost the fish in the weeds. I had tied that fly on, was going to change it out after a few casts, but I saw it in the water and loved the profile. So I tied me up some other options.
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Nice. So do you fish that fly for steelhead in a floating line to be really shallow? Or take it down with a sink tip?
 
I used a sink tip with it. I really haven't fished muddlers much before. I have much better luck getting my flies lower in the water column where I usually fish. But I'm sure the barely sunk method would work as well. I should have took a pic of the fly in the water yesterday, The wing materials puffed out and it had such a cool silhouette in the water.
 
Zak said:
I really like this fly. Two questions:

Is it a Hoagie Carmichael pattern?

Are the wings made by wrapping the hackle and just cutting the remaining hackle feathers to length?

Thanks!
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Don't remember the origin of weather or not from Hoagie or not. Wings are tied on 1st and hackle is the last thing. I was pretty sleepy when I tied it and tied on with the wings (hackle tips) being to long for the rest of the fly and I snipped them down :poop:
 
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Not in love with this jig even though the color looks great, was originally planning on marabou hackle so went sparser on the dubbing. Truth is I hate working with marabou- the "correct" way to tie it always leads to it lying flat against my hook rather than wrapping nicely as the videos always show, and the improvised way I have been doing of lying the feather flat against the hook wastes a ton of material. Worst of all it is extremely messy and demands an immediate vacuum clean after any tying with it, I also seem to be mildly allergic to it. I've got plenty of jigs to tie so plenty of time to work it out. I think this crosscut looks pretty decent, but I do much prefer the marabou actionIMG_0496.jpeg
 
speedbird said:
Not in love with this jig even though the color looks great, was originally planning on marabou hackle so went sparser on the dubbing. Truth is I hate working with marabou- the "correct" way to tie it always leads to it lying flat against my hook rather than wrapping nicely as the videos always show, and the improvised way I have been doing of lying the feather flat against the hook wastes a ton of material. Worst of all it is extremely messy and demands an immediate vacuum clean after any tying with it, I also seem to be mildly allergic to it. I've got plenty of jigs to tie so plenty of time to work it out. I think this crosscut looks pretty decent, but I do much prefer the marabou actionView attachment 129897
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Maybe you could pull a few marabou fibers off and add it to the top, then the bottom, then each side. Less waste, less messy, easier to adjust the length, though a little more work. You could also spin up fibers in a dubbing loop, or even a composite loop, but I find that to be a bit tedious.
 
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