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By Jeff Pierce
Materials List:
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Tying Instructions: Step 1: Slide Tungsten bead onto hook and secure Circle Streamer hook in vise. Slide the bead up to the eye and wrap a short base of thread just behind the bead.
 Step 2: Cut a small piece of Pearl Wing N' Flash and secure it to the underside of the hook with a few wraps.
 Step 3: Secure one additional piece of Pearl Wing N' Flash on top of the first bunch.
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 Step 4: Cut a small piece Fl. Orange Fluorofiber and secure it to the underside of the hook just behind the bead.
 Step 5: Cut a small piece of Pearl Wing N' Flash and secure it to the topside of the hook with a few wraps. Be sure the Wing N' Flash spreads down along both sides so as to hide the hook well. Now cut a small piece of Dark Green Wing N' Flash and secure it to the topside of the hook over the Pearl you just tied in. Whip-finish and apply head cement.
 Step 6. Once head cement is dry remove the fly from the vise and comb out the Wing N' Flash to get a nice and secure, slender body. I like to use a toothbrush for this. Now trim the fly to the desired shape. I like this fly pattern for imitating small Creek Chubs, Dace and the other various sleek and slender minnows that are found most everywhere you look. Once you get it trimmed up you're finished and it's ready for deployment!
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Fishing Suggestions:
As I mentioned above JP's Minnow is a great little fly because
it seems that just about everything will eat it. I fish this
as I do any streamer pattern and really like the Circle Streamer
hook. Since I'm often dead drifting the fly or swinging it the
Circle Streamer hooks up the fish well, even on a slack line,
and holds the fish like a vise grip.
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This is also a great fly when fishing streams and rivers for
Trout. I typically cast ¾ downstream, give a couple quick
strips and them let the fly swing in the current. Most of
the fish come on the first couple strips or when the fly
has completed it's swing and I begin stripping it in. Also,
when fishing deeper runs I like to cast upstream, throwing
some slack into the line, allowing the fly to get down deep.
I then mend the line to pick up the slack and twitch the fly
as it drifts through the pool. I have scored some impressive
resident stream trout this way both here in my home waters
of Upstate NY and out West in Colorado and Montana. My two
biggest Cutthroat to date came on this fly this summer while
fishing in Southwestern Montana. I have also done well
fishing for the BIG Great Lakes Brown Trout in the tributaries
swinging this fly.
About Jeff PierceJeff Pierce, AKA Dr. Fish, is the North American Sales Coordinator for O. Mustad & Son (USA), Inc. and Partridge of Redditch. When not in the office he can be found chasing fish all over the world. Whether it's Sailfish off Borneo, Payara in Brazil or Smallmouth Bass on his home waters you can bet Jeff is no doubt casting flies at something that will bend a rod . . .
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