Effective pike streamer which I tested together with my friend Darek Rakowski during last November’s trip. As it turned out later, it gave us a lot of pike.
Basic material for this pattern is the Crystal Hair – fine, slightly transparent and they move very well in the water. Addition of a good flashabou, perfect a barbless Partridge hook (very sharp) and the Loon UV Red resin in the bottom part of the head which is not irrelevant to me – all you have to do is see how this part of the fly changes after lighting in UV.
Materials for Crystal pike streamer:
Hook: Partridge Absolute Predator 1/0
Thread: white UTC 210
Wing: Crystal Hair – white, grey and hot olive
Flash: Mirage Flashabou
Eyes: 3D Eye 8mm and Loon UV – clear and red
Krystian Niemy
Looks like one I could try. Thanks for sharing.
Just brilliant. Could you demo some brush flies please? Maybe you can also show us how to build a simple brush tying devise? Thanks from the Kalahari desert.
Does bucktail work for that fly, too?