Easiest/Best Sculpin in the World

[SKershaw]

I am hoping that the wealth of knowledge here on FAOL will continue to show forth it's asset to fly angling.

What is the easiest sculpin pattern to tie? What is the most productive pattern you use for fishing sculpins? How does the time-to-tie versus fish-producer ratio factor in? What style do you prefer? Woolhead? Spun hair? Zonker? Pictures are very beneficial to this visual learner.

Your help is much appreciated! Hopefully this thread will come to fruition and I can show some evidence of sculpin taking fish as I return from a week of trout fishing out west.

Thanks in advance!

[Normand]

muddler minnow

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/fly...fm?parentID=54

[Ron Eagle Elk]

What Normand said along with the same fly with a ram's wool head. Both are deadly as sculpin imitations.

REE

[DonO1]

Chinchilla makes the most dynamite sculpin.

[Lew]

Take a look at John Scott's "Pine Squirrel Cheater". Thread and zonked squirrel.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...910#post356910

[Joe Billingsley]

Easiest, maybe not the best or most realistic, would be a Wooly Booger in the appropriate size and color. Maybe add some additional material to the tail along with the marabou to give it more bulk.

Joe

[Longs for Cutts]

http://www.montanafly.com/search/res...&Submit=Search

You can't tell from the pic, but the tail is brown over tan marabou with copper flash. Body is tan/brown brindle chenille with a grizzly palmer. Neck is 2-3 turns of pheasant church window.

[WarrenP]

I second Lew's suggestion with John Scott's "Pine Squirrel Cheater". This has been a very good pattern for me and has caught many species of fish. Very easy tie with only one material plus the tying thread. It may not be what you are looking for, but, you can't go wrong with it and I feel it will catch fish where ever you fish.

[JohnScott]

Lew and Warren got it right !!

There are plenty of good sculpin patterns, but there are none that are easier to tie and few that also work just as well as a small minnow / baitfish pattern.

John

P.S. And, no, I am not biased or partial !! Here's a link to the FOTW article.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...tw20090921.php

[chewydog]

I tie this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk2Ib_gupvs