Zeigler's Crystal Schminnow
Not much to it, but sometimes those are the best flies. Only thing left to do is hit the hook point with a file.
hook - Mustad 3407 #4
thread - Danville Flat-wax white
tail - marabou white
flash - Flashabou Mirage opal
body - Estaz pearl
eyes - plastic black
Regards,
Scott
Norm tends to prefer pinching the marabou off for a finished tail, but there was always Joe Bruce's krystal bugger out of Baltimore in the 1980's for fishing mid Atlantic rivers.
Dave,Originally Posted by saltydancindave
Do you know the reasoning behind that? In one video, he trimmed the tail square with scissors.
Regards,
Scott
I like the fly. It's a modernized version of the Shenk's Minnow - still one of my favorite patterns to tie and fish for smallmouth bass and panfish.
Alberto
Nice fly Scott. It'd be a killer on Crappies where I fish. A fun fly...
I grinned at your final comment. I -HATE- those hooks!! Waste of time tyin' on 'em imho. Your ties deserve better.
Oh, but Jeremy, I loved the price. Bought a bunch of boxes of 100 in various sizes about 15 years ago for $6.50 each; 5 seconds with a file is a minor inconvenience. They've served me well, too, catching everything from false albacore to tarpon with only one hook failure.
Regards,
Scott
Seems it's his pinching the marabou off tying spin on feathering the tail square like how he invented the schminnow when he had returned from Germany even if there were a number of people fishing size #8-12 for bass in the Potomac & Shenandoah back in the 80's; being adamant that estaz hadn't been invented yet to make any schminnow. Usually had a couple Krystal Flash strands mixed in with the marabou tail, but a number of salt water tyers now tie just pearl flashabou without marabou as a tail.
Last edited by saltydancindave; 03-09-2016 at 05:54 AM.
Scott,
I was always taught to pinch off marabou rather than trimming with scissors or razor blade.
The reasoning is that it leaves a more natural look. A taper to the pinched marabou as opposed to a "blocky" look with trimmed marabou.
Snook candy!!!!
(It's almost April, man! This has got my blood boiling!)
Isaiah 41:10
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