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IceDub-Marabou Ice Fishing Minnow Balanced Jig Pattern
Balanced Jig Barbless Jig Panfish Trout
This Balance Jig, IceDub Marabou Minnow can be used under the ice, under a float or indicator or cast an retrieved conventionally. Pearl, White and Silver is a potent combination for catching anything that likes to eat minnows.
Tie a Shrimp Popper Pattern
This Shrimp Popper pattern should show lots of movement from the long marabou tail, long silicon legs and long flashabou. It is an experiment in trying to get a slow sinking popper that pops up to the surface when stripped.
Tie a Simple Foam Diver Pattern
Bass Pike Predator Fly Snook Surface Fly Tarpon
This Quick pattern uses few very common materials and moves very energetically when quickly stripped then allowed to float back to the surface. It is very good for many ambush predators near cover. It will take Baby Tarpon and Snook in the Mangroves as well as Redfish and Sea Trout in similar inshore situations. Bass, Pike, Crappie and Bowfin love it when they are near shore or in shallow water near cover. Hook: Short shank hook #2 to 2/0 straighten any offset Thread: Fire Orange 210 Denier like FlyMaster+ Tail: Generous Marabou, 4 times hook...
Tie the Little Brown Jig Pattern
The Little Brown Jig was designed to Target Big Manistee River Steelhead. It is meant to be a small generic bottom minnow, a sucker fry, small sculpin, goby, darter, etc. The mixed brown colors, gold rib, floppy fur tail and black bead head with soft swept back grouse collar giving it broad shoulders all support that impression. It has the colors of the river bottom just as do all the other bottom dwelling crustaceans or insect nymphs. This is made with many of the same materials as my Hex nymphs. Except for it presumably representing a minnow, it could be...
Tie a Swimming Hex, Steelhead Active Nymph Pattern
Carp Smallmouth Steehead Trout
The Swimming Hex is a quick but no so easy pattern using basic materials. It can be tied unweighted, bead head or jig version depending on species, location and presentation. Frequently it is a good choice for targeting Steelhead, Trout, Smallmouth Bass, or Carp. Shown is steps for the giant hex nymph size but it can be scaled down for the many medium big hex species on down to Brown Drake Nymphs.