Simple, Simple Crappie Fly

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#10 Mustad 3366

Tail: Chartreuse Marabou
Body: Ultra Chennille in chartreuse

Use any thread you want and add bead heads or my prefered method, chain bead. Add weight to some and not to others as you may need to go deeper or fall slower.

Basically, a lil’ bugger in Chart.

Tied some this winter and fished for Crappie today…these were killer, the bead chain added a nice wobble and the high vis. color made it easy to see most of the strikes.

Probably 35-40 Crappie today.

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I’ve been tying some similar flies, but I’m using Polar Chenille. The crappie here love them, and I have also caught LMB and bluegills on them.
Steve

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I tie lots of simple crappy flies as well.

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I have some of the Polar as well and YUP, they work.

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Any pics of these flies crappie flies? Sounds like a great fly to use.

Mike

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http://www.madriveroutfitters.com/p-2146-lil-bugger-bead-head.aspx

Here is the model they are fashioned after…imagine it in Chart over Chart with bead chain eyes or in Polar Chart.

I used the smaller ultra chennille for th elatest batch seemed to add a little more wiggle to the fly with the narrower body…sorry, no “actual pics”…setting up the digi cam. is time consuming to show a decent pic.

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Thanks for the neat fly. I have been tying some similar with a chartreuse marabou wing as well. Haven’t had a chance to try them yet, we still have ice in ND.

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Look to the archives and FLY of THE WEEK on this site to REALLY see what folks use.