Rick’s White Hope Streamer
In today’s video, Rick (The FlyFish Fanatic)™ will be tying a AWESOME Bull Trout Streamer that catches fish ALL DAY LONG!!!!
Materials:
Hook- Ahrex TP615 Size 1
Weight- Underbody Sticky back flat lead
Thread- Semperfli NanoSilk in White
Eyes- Red Dumbell Large
Trailer- 15-20 fire line
Tail- White Rabbit Zonker
Body- Pink Straggle String
Legs- Semperfli White/Silver sili Legs
Flash- Semperfli White Flash
Head- White rabbit in dubbing loop
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Hello everyone this is Rick pic F fish fanatic welcome to rali bench uh today really big big big bunny streamer pattern that I just absolutely love for bull trout um and uh I’ve caught some Pike on it as well um and smaller walleye and much smaller though um this
Pattern is is a big pattern it’s one I like using in big water uh where there’s a bol tro in like I wouldn’t fish this in a smaller River like um in BC the gadget that kind of thing it’s just it’s too massive for it um but the bigger
Bigger water just what I use so it’s a bit of a longer tie so let’s get going uh this is a just so you guys can see where the light there we go it’s hard for you to to for me to read that on there uh it’s an axp 615 trout Predator
Streamer my my screen is always I’m always saying ah it’s so bright it’s so bright and then I look at the video and it’s not actually bright it’s the uh screen that makes it look bright so um yeah so that’s what that is here um I’ll explain the materials as I go just
Because there is quite a few of them um if you want to make it heavy add some flat uh some stickyback flat lead which I do quite often um I have a a tagging system so I know whether they’ve got weight on them and how much weight so if
It’s got no weight there’s no no extra color put onto the uh onto the bead if it’s got weight um I’ll put a uh like one layer I’ll put a orange dot two layers I’ll put a Green Dot and I use that I use like um the uh golf ambulance green and ambulance
Orange just to put a dot on the uh on the eye um going to be using a painted bead not a big biggest fan of these ones here but that’s all I have um with me normally I I use ones that are that I add an eye to one of the plastic
Eyes but uh this one I don’t have any so these will do I like red though the eye I like the eye red so in this case it’s just a painted red painted eye now I’m going to come back I want to leave lots of room in the front
For um material because there’s going to be a that’s call it a collar but it’s not you’ll see really tight really tight I’m using sfly Nano silk here under under under under under and then over over over over over over over and then under under under through that thing nothing worse
Than being out in the water and these stupid things spin on you so make sure it’s tied in well super simple so there’s my lead just going to give this good coating now I’m going to take a piece of of White Rabbit zonker and I want it fairly long um
Actually I’m going to for that one step I’m going to put on the sh of them at first but it’s okay um some uh fire line so I I want a trailing hook on this one um I like using 15 or 20 pound this is a
15 pound um but i’ prefer usually I like the 20 PB fire line just get a little stiffer and it it helps hold that tail out a bit better so I said I forgot to put this on I like to putting it on first but I forgot kind a biggy so I
Want that big enough easy enough to put a a good size um trailing hook on without having to fight it so I just come all the way forward now I I don’t know if you guys saw but I tucked it in underneath the uh through the eye and
Now I’ll come in front of it here now I would have done this again before tied on the eye eyes and this lead would have had that done very first come back we want these make sure this is tied on really well this uh gsps Nano silks any of these types of things
Are slippery you don’t want to get a big fish on and then it pulls out because you didn’t tie in your trailing hook material properly that’s a Nana it’ll get you it’ll get you calling yourself some names out in the water again back through again and back over and that’ll finish off
That Ding in of that knock cut that off there we go so now back to your regular schedule program put in the zoner so now I want to be I know my it ends right here so I want this the leather to be right there a little bit
Longer and I want it to there so I want it to here to the back side of the eyes and the reason I want it to the back side is because I’m going to build a bit of a head collar with uh some other stuff so um and I want this long enough
That I can get that hook tagged in there right so but that’s where that’s going to be is right there right there so now I just got to split my rabbit here so I can expose the the skin don’t want to tra too many of these little hairs if
Possible it wet a little bit of saliva I’m cranking on that e so just make sure that’s going to be long enough yep that’ll be long enough it’s a little short a little long in the front but that’s okay I can cut that when I get to that point
Now I’ve got some simply mirror Pearl and I’m going to grab six or eight strands now you don’t have to use the mirror Pearl you can use um uh Flash ofoot you can use a flat flash shoo you can use a um a silver or white uh um tinsel what
Whatever you feel like on this portion this is just going to be a underbody sorry it’s going to be the underbody um then there’s a going to be like a rib of the straggle Chenille ice ice straggle um from Simply in pink um I also tie
This one in just with the with the white straggle depends which system I’m tying it for uh there’s certain systems where you want all white and other systems where you want a little bit of color I’m tying this one for obviously your system that has some color so that likes the
Color so now I’m just going to put in uh the uh Flash and I like using this stuff personally because it it uh it gives a different look than like a Holo tinsil or stuff right because it’s got all the little bumpy in the material and it just it catches light differently right
So bring that forward see that’s tied in well now I want to cut this off but this will be long enough probably yeah it’ll probably be long enough because I want to have some flash later so then put one full turn right at the back and then I’m GNA Palmer It Forward
Like a rib seeing that’s a little bit of that body color underneath okay nippy nippy now I’m going to bring this forward nice and tight then leave those hairs on sometimes you want to cut them up and not in this case I want to leave them
On right behind that eye nice and tight again tight you know it’s nano silk so it’s it’ll you it’ll have a hard time breaking it I I mean that means I I’ve tugged the my u way more than I should have so I’m just using my really small little tight little
Scissors these are The renome Stingers the new ones just using those to get right in there to get that bulk of that skin leather or whatever you want to call it off again it really doesn’t matter because it’s all going to get covered in a minute I just like doing
It BR it all off there and I will TI that down even better all going to get hidden anyway so so now I’ll take some of that if I didn’t make a mess of it that extra flash that I had I’ll take a half of
It two three strands and just put it on my side just a couple of strands you nothing much just a little bit of extra flash there that up cut that off now what I’ll do is I will make it I will get my wax wax my thread
Here and I’m going to take some of the Seer fly uh s silly legs and silver and white here’s what how many do I have hopefully four or hey look at that I got four on this piece that’s what I want so about the same length that I tie it
Just in the side actually I might only put a two in this one just because of the size one just want to make sure it stays right on the side that’s good and then I’m going to put one on the other side yeah I could
Put more than one in h two in but I think I’m just going to go with two with two the same length I want it as long as the uh as the uh where the hook is going to be again just make make sure this is right along the side cranker
Down it goes off now usually I’ve got a little clip that I can use back here but I’ve already packed it away for my trip so I’ll just try to keep that out of the way so now I’m going to wax it again you want to wax when you put those silly
Legs on I find them pretty slippery so now I’m gonna make a nice dobing Loop here come back forward we go to the front gra my DB spinner now I could do two things I could take um I could just use the hair that’s right here or I could you I have
An another big bigger piece here right so it depends I’m going to just use the piece that I cut so it’s just having to try to get it to stick out is the only tough part at times so I just got to really chug at this to get it to
Stick out enough that I can get it into my material clip evenly there’s my brush right there sometimes just brushing it out works better I’m just brushing it out just to get it to stick out and then try to flatten that a bit grab as much of that hair as I can just
T to that as Skin as I can with leaving room so I can put it into my Loop right of the skin move it out of this just a little bit so it’s a little easier to grab there so that should be okay put this in spin
Up and another good reason to use Nano silk because it’s you can really spin this stuff up it doesn’t it won’t break that easy now I’m just making sure nothing is caught in there it’s all sticking out nicely okay one good wrap there and then I’m
Going to come right in front of the eyes make sure it all goes back one we wrap there’s the wrap making sure all that stuff stays back right then I’ll have a look and see if I like it if I can always hair flying around over here I
Can always add more to the front here if I want it a little bit bulkier so I’m kind of torn with this one because I kind of like it but not really I wouldn’t mind having just a tad more in there but we’ll see once I brushed it out what it looks like
It’s actually not bad I don’t mind that could to have a little tiny tiny bit more bushiness to that but zoom out here a bit just you can see the whole fly um like I said could add a little tiny more bushiness here but I’m okay with that so
I’m just going to build up a bit of a head here they easily added some more there but that’s okay everyone is a little different then I’ll put some UV resin on that and she is a finished fly just like I said you can add two
Silly legs if you want to each side I do sometimes sometimes I don’t so but uh yeah that is the finished fly a little bit of that red sticking out that that head will pulsate a bit that tail will move all that’s left here is to add a
Hook and stab it into the uh into the actually stab it into the into the skin first backwards so it’s the eye is facing forward all obviously um and then where’s my B down underneath it it’s right there um and yeah hook that into there and you’re done and then the nice
Thing with this the reason I like using the trailing hooks on this first of all it’s um it’s uh uh it’s a long piece get a lot of false hits if you leave it like that uh Second of all it’s easy to th this will um ride
Right near the bottom right so you’ll get a lot of dull hooks so you can just switch it out um what I’ll do now is because like in certain places here in Alberta I’d leave it but in BC as an example and’ll cut off this this front
Hook I’ll just cut off the uh the hook portion of it like up at the top right in right in there I’ll cut that off just so I’m not illegal right because you’re you’re not allowed to but yeah that’s it she’s a not a really difficult fly it’s
Even easier if you got the clips I wish I would have left one out but um but that’s it that’s it uh she’s a she’s a fun fly like I said be I tie it in about that big for walleye and uh for the scet
As an example I’ll tie it about that big as well so it’s about two inches it’s about four so hope you guys enjoyed that if you did give it a thumbs up if you’ve subscribed awesome if you haven’t please consider doing so getting close to that 3,000
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1 Comment
I like it a lot