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STREAMERS & PULLING FLIES

TOM JONES

This is a very useful fly to have in your fly box. Tom Jones flies are suggestive of a number of items that find themselves on the trout's menu from time to time. In lakes where there are populations of red fin or creatian carp they work well and at other times and places trout seem to take them as stick caddis and even mayfly nymphs. There a good fly to cover fish with because they land softly and as they sink or slosh round in any wave action the rabbit fur moves freely often getting the desired reaction. Alternatively they work well retried at a range of speeds either alone or in a team of flies. I tie it in two versions. The first is as set out in the recipe below the second is specifically for red fin feeders. It varies only because of a the addition of a few red hackle fibers tied under the tail and replacement of the olive hackle fibers with red hackle fibers.


MATERIALS:

Hook  - Size  10-14 long shank
Thread  - Black
Tail  - Black Possum  Fur
Body  - Peacock herl
Wing - Olive green rabbit or kangaroo fur
Bib - Pheasant tail hackles or red hackle fibers
 

A)

  1. Wind the thread in touching turns from the 95% position to the bend of the hook.
  2. Tie in a substantial tail of  possum fur and bind the butt ends along the top of the hook shank to form an underbody.
  3. Trim the possum fur butt ends off horizontally at about the 90% position.
  4. Select two peacock herl and tie them in at the front of the underbody. If you hold the herl above the hook as you wind back to the bend of the hook the tied in hell will be neatly positioned on top of the shank of the hook.

 

B)

Form the herl and the thread into a herl rope.




 

C)

  1. Wind the herl rope 1/3 of the way up the hook shank.
  2. Unwind the herl rope on tie the herl off but do not trim the excess herl.


 

D)

  1. Tie in a back fin of rabbit or kangaroo fur.
  2. Re-form the herl rope.

 

E)

  1. Wind the herl rope forward 2/3 of the way up the hook shank.
  2. Tie in a second fin the same as the first.
  3. Tie in a beard of just a few hackle fibers.
  4. Build up a neat head and whip finish.
  5. Trim the thread and varnish the head.
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