Articulated Streamers
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Billy, here is the way I approached the articulated learning curve . . .
1)Learn to tie a simple articulated wooly bugger first. Fish it a few times and get a feel for how it moves with the current. A good tutorial is here http://www.flyguysoutfitting.com/articulatedbugger.html
Then move on to fun stuff
2)Circus Peanut! Over the past two years, this fly has become my go-to articulated streamer because it is simpler to tie than the Sex Dungeon or any of the spun deer hair flies and thus I have more in my box. And I don’t curse as much when I loose one to a snag. A great tutorial is here, Part One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdYxFlUX20 and Part Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGPqLKE5pY&feature=related
3)Sex Dungeon – still the sexiest articulated fly around. Not many online tutorials per se, but you can piece the method together by watching the following tutorials and learning Kelly Galloup’s techniques for loosely spinning deer hair and then following Charlie Craven’s Sex Dungeon variant tutorial. The Sex Dungeon is basically a Circus Peanut with a Zoo Cougar spun deer hair head (I said basically, that’s my own interpretation anyway).
– Kelly Galloup on spinning dear hair heads – this a Zoo Cougar tutorial, one of the best online imho. http://www.theweeklyfly.com/2009/08/03/kelly-galloup-s-zoo-cougar-37-59
– Another Kelly Galloup tutorial – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWq95R0vv24
– Charlie Craven’s Sex Dungeon variant tutorial – http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/print.cfm?parentID=151
The sky is the limit with articulated patterns! Once you learn the basics, your creations can really become a work of art.
Sinking lines are what I use to streamer fish, even with patterns like the sex dungeon and circus peanut.
Awesome pics and tutorial Neal, thanks for putting that together. Those green patterns will be awesome on the Shoalies over the next few weeks.
Billy,
I suggest buying/renting Kelly Galloup’s video on streamer fishing. He also has a book which describes his techniques and theory. He tells you everything from the equipment he uses, why he uses it, how he reads a river and how he goes about finding the flies that work. You can find Kelly and all his wares at http://www.slideinn.com. He has lots of videos on fishing and fly tying. It really helps to see him actually fishing the style you must use with big streamers.
Jarrad
I also struggled at first with tying these hunks of meat but man they are awesome in the water and they can really turn some big fish. Neals info is awesome and a great place to start. I will tell you that for some reason, I probably just wasn’t paying attention, but i couldn’t find the right wire to join the two flies. I finally found out it was something called beadalon and you can get it at hobby lobby. There are other alternatives but out of all of it this has been my favorite stuff to use so far.
This is my personal favorite creation so far…
It works pretty good on little pellet piggies…
I think its 50lb. fireline (the same thing I use for backing on my reels), which is pretty low diameter and not stiff at all.
gotta agree with that, more is better. Thought about adding rattles to mine too. Kind of a shock and awe streamer.
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