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STREAMERS & PULLING FLIES

PREDATOR

This is a big profile fly which is very attractive to predators like large territorial browns and aggressive rainbows. The original colour was modelled on the Creation Carp found in lake Jindabyne and the black version is the same fly tied for use in failing light or night time when when a dramatic profile is required. Fish them aggressively or very slow in either case the strike can be dramatic.

MATERIALS FOR DAY PREDATOR:

Hook - Size 6 long shank
Thread - Brown
Weight - 4mm bead head
Tail - Yellow, olive and orange marabou and two badger hackles each side
Body - Olive and brown marabou
Front Hackle - Badger hackle

A) Push the bead onto the hook prior to placing the hook in the vice. Wind the thread over the first third of the hook shank building up a thicker section just behind the eye of the hook. Tie the thread off at the one third mark and separate it from the hook. Paint the thread with head cement and then slide the bead forward over the thickened section and fix it into place directly behind the eye of the hook. Re-tie the thread in directly behind the bead and wind it in touching turns to the bend of the hook. Tie in up to three colours of marabou to form the under tail.
B) Tie in two badger hackles on each side of the marabou tail deceiver style. Take the thread 1/3 of the way along the hook shank and tie in a collar of marabou. The tips of the marabou collar should extend behind the fly about 1/3 of the way along the tail.
C) Take the thread a further 1/3 of the way along the hook shank and tie in a second collar of marabou overlapping about half of the first marabou collar. Tie in the hackle b y the butt directly behind the eye of the hook.
D) Starting directly behind the eye of the hook wind the hackle backward in touching turns. Tie the hackle off and use the thread to prostrate the hackle slightly backward. Build up a neat head. Whip finish and varnish.