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The Slate Drake Bomber is the only other Bomber style pattern I tie and fish here in the Northeast. It is my choice of flies for pocket water when fishing the Drakes.

Slate Drake Bomber Recipe
Hook: #10 Standard Dry
Thread: Rusty Dun 8/0 Uni
Tail: Woodchuck Guard Hairs
Wing: Dun Elk Hair
Body: #33 Seal Brown Hareline
Hackle: Speckled Badger

(Note: pattern and tying video remains the same as the Ausable Bomber. Only the colors are changed to match the local Slate Drake hatch)

For a full tying video, click on the link below:
http://www.ralphsflybox.com/2016/04/...ke-bomber.html