Friday Night Flies – Frost Bite Fly
Friday Night Flies – Frost Bite Fly
Friday Night Flies – Frost Bite Fly
Streamers are patterns tied to imitate a larger food source such as a leech or bait fish rather than a small aquatic insect. Depending on the fish species you are targeting, a streamer can be as small as #8 micro bugger or something as large as a ten inch shad pattern. For trout, streamers normally do not go much bigger than a few inches in length. Once anglers achieve success with streamers, they often focus intently on fishing big flies. The reason is simple, and well known: big flies catch big fish. There’s also a rush that comes with streamer fishing that does not come with other brands of fly fishing. Since you are trying to imitate a bait fish or similar food source that is swimming in the water column, an active retrieve is preferred rather than just a dead drift. A dead drift can still be very effective so do not put that tactic away completely, but rather think more of an erratic swimming retrieve.When streamer fishing, it is not necessary to get your fly to the stream bottom as in nymphing, but it is necessary to get it down in the water column and into the strike zone.
This is a super easy but very effective Trout fly pattern. This fly works great for Bull Trout and Rainbow Trout.
Material list:
Hook: Mustad size 6 streamer
Thread: 140 UTC white
Tail: Superfly pink deer belly hair
Belly: Superfly chartreuse diamond dubbing
Attractor: Superfly red attractor
Body: White craft fur
Head: Fish skull #5, holo diamond dubbing
Eyes: Superfly yellow sticky eyes
UV cure: Solarez thin UV cure.
