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Bass Bugs

Assom Dragon

  • Hook - streamer hook 2X sizes 2 - 10 (usually )weighted
  • Thread - brown
  • Body - A strip of natural brown seal's fur or dyed brown rabbit fur on slin
  • Hackle - grizzly dyed brown

Comments - The fur strip is "palmered" from the bend up to near the eye.

 

Baitfish - Whitlock's Swimming

  • Hook - stainless steel - straight eye - 2/0 - 4
  • Thread - red
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - four white and two grizzly saddle hackles with silver and pearl krystal flash
  • Sides - two white hackles short
  • Throat - red flashabou
  • Collar - white deer hair on the bottom natural deer hair on top
  • Head - orange then red deer hair spun and clipped to shape
  • Eyes - gold doll eyes

Bass Bugger - Yellow

  • Hook - standard stainless steel saltwater hooks sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - yellow
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - yellow marabou
  • Legs - white rubber hackle
  • Body - yellow chenille
  • Eyes - silver hour glass eye painted yellow with black pupil

Black Ann Red Bass Bug

  • Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - black
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - two furnace saddle hackles, black abd red rubber hackle with two black hen sadddles-one on each side
  • Butt - black saddle hackle
  • Body - Red, orange, black and white deer hair-in that oder from the back to eye - spun and clipped
  • Legs - black rubber hackle
  • Eyes - red audible eyes

Canary Bass Bug

  • Hook - stinger 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - white
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - two yellow hackles enveloped bytwo white hackles
  • Hackle - ight grizzly hackle
  • Legs - yellow rubber hackle
  • Body - two shades of yellow deer hair spun and clipped (lighter in rear)
  • Face - white deer hair spun and clipped
  • Eyes - medium audible eyes

Clouser's Crayfish

  • Hook - heavy wire 3X or 4X sizes 6 to 10
  • Thread - olive
  • Weight - two strips of lead wire - one on both sides of the hook
  • Antennae (tail) - pheasant tail fibers
  • Back (and tail) - olive furry foam
  • Claws - two hen mallard flanks with stems partially stripped and centers snipped out
  • Underside - pale grey yarn or dubbing
  • Legs - One ginger grizzly hackle palmered up the abdomen before the furry foam is folded forward from the bend
  • Rib - grey thread. There should be four. Place between turns of hackle

Dahlberg Diver - Purple

  • Hook -stinger hook sizes 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - white
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Wings -puple over light blue marabou
  • Sides - two dyed blue grizzly hackles enclosed by two dyed purple grizzly hackles, and green flashabou
  • Topping - silver and gold flashabou and peacock herl
  • Collar - purple, blue and black deer hair
  • Head - blue and purple deer hair, spun and clipped to shape

Damsel Dragon

  • Hook - stinger hook sizes 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - white
  • Rib - white thread
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Body - natural light and dark bucktail (grey underhair with light tips) extended
  • Hackle - natural light and dark bucktail extended - spent
  • Eyes - yellow audible eyes

Eelworm

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - red
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - four black saddles hackles splayed
  • Body - black fuzzy wool yarn
  • Hackle - black saddle hackle, palmered over body
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Comments - If a fuzzy wool for the body cannot be found, mohair can be substituted.

Frog - Whitlock's Swimmimng

  • Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - fl. green floss
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - two lime saddle hackles, four dyed olive grizzly saddle hackles and lime krystal flash
  • Collar - lime green hackle
  • Wing - dark green deer hair
  • Legs - yellow and green rubber hackle
  • Head - green, black and yellow deer hair spun and clipped (in bands and mostly green)
  • Eyes - white audible eyes

Frog - Wiggle Legs

  • Hook - stinger sizes 2 and 6
  • Thread - white
  • Rear legs - tied on with wire - hook shank cut-dark green bucktail over white single knotted for foot-then lacquered.
  • Body - predominately olive deer hair with bands of yellow and black with white under belly - all spun and clipped.
  • Front legs - four strands of white rubrer hackle in each leg - knotted
  • Eyes - medium yellow audible eyes

Hairwater Pup - Black

  • Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - red
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - black rabbit fur strip-also over the body
  • Rib - fine silver wire
  • Body - black rabbit dubbing
  • Throat - red flashabou short
  • Collar - black deer hair
  • Head - black deer hair spun and clipped
  • Eyes - audible eyes blue

Hare Worm

  • Hook - stinger 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - white
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - blue rabbit fur strip long
  • Body - blue rabbit fur strips dlued to hook shank top and bottom
  • Eyes - white doll eyes

Jig-a-bugger, black

  • Hook - nymph/streamer 3X size 8
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - black rabbit fur with a few strands of black krystal flash
  • Body - black crystal chenille or opalescent ESTAZ
  • Hackle - black hackle palmered over the body
  • Eyes - silver hour glass eye painted pink with black pupil

Leech - Chamois

  • Hook - stinger sizes 1/0, 2, 6
  • Thread - yellow
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - fl. red floss (short)
  • Shellback - brown chamois over the entire back of the entire fly and making the long tail
  • Rib - fine gold wire
  • Body - brown antron picked out in a taper
  • Hackle - brown speckled hen hackle
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Leech

  • Hook - streamer 6X 4 - 10
  • Thread - black
  • Tail - black marabou
  • Rib - silver wire
  • Body - black goat dubbing well picked out

Comments - Mohair yarn is often substituted for the goat hair body. Red leech same except red substituted for black goat and marabou and gold wire rib. Olive leech uses olive marabou and goat with gold wire rib.

Mouse - Whitlock

  • Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - black
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - dark brown leather strip
  • Body - dark deer hair spun an clipped on the bottom
  • Ears - dark brown leather cut to shape
  • Collar - dark deer hair flared
  • Head - dark deer hair spun and clipped
  • Whiskers - dark moose body hair
  • Eyes - black waterproof marker

Perch

  • Hook - keel - 1/0 - 6
  • Thread - yellow single strand floss
  • Tail - red krystal flash
  • Body - pearl diamond braid (metallic braid)
  • Wing - geen marabou over yellow calftail
  • Sides - dyed yellow grizzly hackle
  • Topping - peacock herl strands
  • Collar - olive and orange deer hair
  • Head - yellow and olive deer hair spun and clipped
  • Eyes - audible eyes

Rabbit Strip Diver

  • Hook - stinger - 2, 6, 10
  • Thread - white
  • Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - yellow rabbit fur strip
  • Topping - gold flashabou
  • Collar - yellow deer hair spun and clipped on the bottom
  • Head - yellow deer hair spun and clipped to shape

Shad Fly - orange

  • Hook - nymph/streamer 3X size 2 - 6
  • Thread - fl. fire-orange single strand floss
  • Tail - fl. fire-orange floss - short
  • Body - fl. fire-orange floss
  • Eyes - silver bead chain

Comments - the green shad fly is tied the same except fl. green floss is used.

Whitlock's Lectric Leech

  • Hook -standard salmon hook - 1/0 - 2
  • Thread - black
  • Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
  • Tail - black marabou
  • Shellback - peacock herl over the marabou tail
  • Rib - fine gold wire
  • Body - black wool yarn
  • Sides - electric blue flashabou - ends as part of tail
  • hackle - black palmered over the body