Something I am sure you guys and gals are familiar with. I have tied stingers on my Gartside Softhackles using the wire tippet for Muskie.
A friend of mine got me thinking about this method. He got it out of a Steelhead magazine, so I had to try a double bunny.
I took a scud hook and tied it on 3X flouro with a surgeon’s loop so it can wiggle… Then I threaded the flouro on a needle and sewed two equal size zonker strips. When I got half way up the strips, I poked a streamer hook through the bottom strip. Folded the strips back and secured the flouro to the streamer hook with thread. Leaving the thread back by the bend, I folded the strips over the hook and secrued them by ribbing with the thread. Added flashabou down the sides and a Marabou collar Gartside Softhackle style.
After poking myself several times with the stinger hook, I decided to call them Waskully Wabbits, or Elmer’s Fub.
Basically flouro, cause that is all I have lol. Plus I thought the invisible although you can’t see it, so maybe strength, but I think the first answer says it all
I haven’t used these yet (water is still too hard), but on the Softhackles I used, the hook up was 99%. I found fish (specially bass) sip the flie in and what feel like a hook-up turns out to be they had part in their mouth and just let go.
I think this one will be great! Specially the colors I choose. I think there will be more on the rear hook however.
My experience [which is really counterintuitive] was …one day using a fly very similar to yours but only the streamer hook…good results… the next day…using a thinner simpler leech with the stinger…got more takes and fewer actual hookups…go figure???
Great looking flies! Lots of our local steelhead patterns (Pick-Yer-Pockets, MOAL’s) are tied in a similar fashion using Octopus hooks as the stinger hook. Very good for steel and Dolly/Bull trout.
A lot of folks use backing to attach the stinger to the main hook shank.
I’ve been trying some of the gel spun stuff figuring strength but very flexible…mobility on things like the MOAL.[the leech pattern I mentioned above was a take off of the MOAL].
