Favorite color pattern for smallies (and just about everything else) on my local river.
- cones are tungsten on #2 Mustad 3366 hooks
- pearl/gold OR pearl/white twisted chenille
Others are copycats made for the short rod.
Those look great! I bet they would also work great in my local river for walleyes and white bass, amongst other species. Thanks for sharing.
What is the main forage in your local river? Shad? Miscellaneous minnows (shiners, chubs, etc.)? Our main sforage species is shad, but there are plenty of other minnows in the river.
No shad to speak of. Most abundant minnows are probably chubs - but there are a lot of carp and carpsuckers species in the river that i would guess make up a large portion of diet to any predators. You can see lots of gold hue flashes when the minnows school in the fall.
Is a major dam downstream scheduled to come down in the next few years that i have a feeling may change the forage base. With it gone, it will allow access for fish from L.Erie to come upstream. Possibly even let the 'eyes run up this far in the spring. 
Very nice fly. I have a place in mind to try those for wally next April.
Regards,
Scott
Terrible, Russ… tie me up a dozen and forget about that pattern altogether. 
LOVE that gold mixed in there!
Those look great !
Love the gold in them
Nice tying. Your post reminded me that I had some gold buggers ‘boogers’ in my warmwater fly boxes. I used 3 gold materials- flashabou, ice dubbing, and gold micro-holo-flash. Don’t know if they’d work on smallies- none of those around here. And too flashy for the trout here, as far as I can tell.
That’s starting to look like local pattern some of the guys use for trout & shoal bass called a Rolex Streamer.
Jesse, around here we call the Rolex Streamer a Krelex Streamer. This is definately a killer on the Rainbows here.
DonO1 - Betting those would work well on smallmouth when they are in minnow mode during the fall. What is the body on the conehead you show?
The Rolex looks very similar to a pattern i know called the Kreelex. Funny how they all take on their own ‘close but not quite’ names.
We were typing at the same time i guess… what he said! 
I would not be surprise that it became a Rolex because that was easy to remember and a more familiar name than Krelex. Sound like I need to tye some up.
The cone-head body is the gold Flashabou roped to form segments. Once you cinch down the tail, you can just rope the material to form a yarn, or you can rope-dub it so you can create a taper as you wrap. Just two ways to kill the same bird. I rope-dub on heavy wire so that it adds weight and durability, but you can’t readily spot that from looking at the fly. The collar is just the tail end of the rope that I didn’t spin- the last 1 1/2 inch or so. Once you hit the cone, circle the shank with the tips and cinch them down- creates the ‘hackle’ collar. Breaks down to 3 parts for each hank- tail, body, collar. I did a ton of
Mister-Twister grub-style jigs for Skip, with the bodies being the tail material rope-dubbed. Works with anything, just about, but some are awesome, like flashabou and mirage.
The yellow jig is shown in regular light, then under UV light. Skip sent me a big batch of the road-runner jigs with blades, and I had a fun time working with them. They may have worked around here, but I sent them all to Skip for crappy fishing testing and tying samples.