The Flash Mullet
This simple bait fish pattern can be varied according to your colour preference and the desired target species, but with its lack of bulk and water shedding property's it's a great fly to have in your arsenal.
Materials used
- Semperfli Predator fibres in cream and tan
- Semperfli Nano Silk 200D White
- Varnish/Resin/Super glue to suit your preference
- Silver Ice Dubbing
- Partridge of Redditch CS45 2/0
Thread base
Take the cream Predator Fibres and cut to the desired length
holding them so that they are flat like so
Loosen your grip and pull a slight taper into the material with your spare hand
You should end up with this
Tie onto the top of the hook with a loose wrap of thread
Using your thumb roll side to side to disperse the fibre around the hook shank
Once happy with distribution of the fibre being even
Secure with the thread, which does not take much using Nano Silk as its so very strong
Now the thread is secure, using a comb brush the fibre to tease the fibres apart
start at the free end working back towards the thread so that you don't get stuck in knots
You should now see this, lots of volume for little fibre
Using the latest space age tool push the fibre back like so
Your looking to bring it back on itself
NOT this far, stop at the front of the fibre bend
You should see this effect
Now the thread damn to hold the fibres back without losing volume
Use your desired Glue or varnish to secure the thread before moving on at each stage
Take another section of fibre as before this time your only distributing the fibre around the bottom half of the shank
Take the Tan Fibre and place on the top half this needs to be around 1cm shorter in length
Now you have the start of the twin tone, secure with thread
You should be looking at this
Take your time to ensure the fibre does not rotate out of the desired position
Take some silver dubbing and place on the side of the hook as you did with the fibre and secure with thread
Push back the fibre again
Thread damn
Move forward 0.5cm approximately
Repeat, Tan on top Cream on bottom and Silver Dubbing on the sides
Really make sure that Fibre does not rotate around the hook when securing with thread
Shorter sections of fibre now for the belly so as to achieve the taper desired
Make sure the fibre comes back evenly over the hook before you secure
You can see the stages here working towards the hook eye
The more you do it the quicker it becomes, But make sure you take your time at first
Nearly at the Eye of the hook now
Pull that thread tight and distribute those fibres
More dubbing this time top and bottom
Thread damn and Whip finish
Pop on your Eyes
Sit back and Admire your Fly
Now It wasn't that hard now and look at what you now have
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