Streamers

Tim

I’m sure you fish with and have in your fly box many different type of streamers. A definition of a streamer can be bigger flies that you fish on an active retrieve, and these flies imitate baitfish, crayfish, leeches, and large aquatic insect. So which ones to tie for Missouri was your question.

I will tie woolybuggers in different sizes. Definitely leech patterns using rabbit or squirrel (black, brown, olive and white). Sculpin patterns, baitfish patterns like maybe a clouser minnow, the tiger tail pattern (similar to WB except the tail is a hackle feather vice marabou).

I do tie BIG streamers for when I Musky and Pike fish – but that’s a whole other ball game!

I’ve had a lot of success using the leftover streamers from New Years Eve party’s. I go to the local barber shop and collect some hair from the floors and glue onto the different colored streamer ribbon. I then cut them to different lengths and tie them onto size 10-12 barbless hooks. It’s one way I try to save money in this otherwise expensive sport.

Since attending the Kelly Gallop Streamer Tactics seminar at Feather-Craft I have been getting really interested in tieing the articulated streamers you see on Gallops and other sites. Only I doubt that I would tie the bigger versions. The Mini-Dungeon, Wooley Sculpin and the Nancy-P are some of Gallop’s patterns I am interested in. I started to tie a Barely Legal but I need bigger hooks and more Laser dub and Maraboo. Streamer fishing is another tool in your arsenal to use when chasing trout. You don’t need to have a special rod, just downsize some patterns and start chucking. By the way, Gallop refers to the Wooley Bugger as a wet fly.

Bill