Zeigler's Crystal Schminnow

[ScottP]

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

[saltydancindave]

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.

[ScottP]

Norm tends to prefer pinching the marabou off for a finished tail

Dave,

Do you know the reasoning behind that? In one video, he trimmed the tail square with scissors.

Regards,
Scott

[Alberto]

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

[Jeremy]

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.

[ScottP]

I grinned at your final comment. I -HATE- those hooks!! 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

[tedshuck]

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

I have tied on 34007 hooks for years and had not had a problem with them that couldn't be fixed with a hook file, UNTIL I took a trip to Christmas Island a few years ago. I straightened out quite a few of these on the bonefish there. These were all size 6 hooks, but they were bending before my 0X tippet broke. I have been buying Gamakatsu SL11-3H ever since.

Ted

[okflyfisher]

that's my kind of fly

[Jeremy]

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

Scott, you just passed muster!!

Can't argue with that.

Jeremy.

[Longs for Cutts]

The same basic fly with silver chain eyes and standard pearl rather than opal chenille and flash works well for the "shad hatch" on the White system.