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Assom Dragon
- Hook - streamer hook 2X sizes 2 - 10 (usually) weighted
- Thread - brown
- Body - A strip of natural brown seal's fur or dyed brown rabbit fur on slin
- Hackle - grizzly dyed brown
Comments - The fur strip is "palmered" from the bend up to near the eye.
Baitfish - Whitlock's Swimming
- Hook - stainless steel - straight eye - 2/0 - 4
- Thread - red
- Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - four white and two grizzly saddle hackles with silver and pearl krystal flash
- Sides - two white hackles short
- Throat - red flashabou
- Collar - white deer hair on the bottom natural deer hair on top
- Head - orange then red deer hair spun and clipped to shape
- Eyes - gold doll eyes
Bass Bugger - Yellow
- Hook - standard stainless steel saltwater hooks sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - yellow
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - yellow marabou
- Legs - white rubber hackle
- Body - yellow chenille
- Eyes - silver hour glass eye painted yellow with black pupil
Black Ann Red Bass Bug
- Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
- Thread - black
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - two furnace saddle hackles, black abd red rubber hackle with two black hen sadddles-one on each side
- Butt - black saddle hackle
- Body - Red, orange, black and white deer hair-in that oder from the back to eye - spun and clipped
- Legs - black rubber hackle
- Eyes - red audible eyes
Canary Bass Bug
- Hook - stinger 2, 6, 10
- Thread - white
- Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - two yellow hackles enveloped bytwo white hackles
- Hackle - ight grizzly hackle
- Legs - yellow rubber hackle
- Body - two shades of yellow deer hair spun and clipped (lighter in rear)
- Face - white deer hair spun and clipped
- Eyes - medium audible eyes
Clouser's Crayfish
- Hook - heavy wire 3X or 4X sizes 6 to 10
- Thread - olive
- Weight - two strips of lead wire - one on both sides of the hook
- Antennae (tail) - pheasant tail fibers
- Back (and tail) - olive furry foam
- Claws - two hen mallard flanks with stems partially stripped and centers snipped out
- Underside - pale grey yarn or dubbing
- Legs - One ginger grizzly hackle palmered up the abdomen before the furry foam is folded forward from the bend
- Rib - grey thread. There should be four. Place between turns of hackle
Dahlberg Diver - yellow & black
- Hook -stinger hook sizes 2, 6, 10
- Thread - yellow
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Wings -black marabou
- Sides - two black & whitegrizzly hackles enclosed by two yellow & black grizzly hackles, and crystal, yellow or black crystal flash (may combine) and white saddle hackle tips or pearl tinsel.
- Topping - silver and gold flashabou and peacock herl
- Collar - yellow & black deer hair
- Head - black and yellow deer hair, spun and clipped to shape
- Legs - white and black rubber legs
Damsel Dragon
- Hook - stinger hook sizes 2, 6, 10
- Thread - white
- Rib - white thread
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Body - natural light and dark bucktail (grey underhair with light tips) extended
- Hackle - natural light and dark bucktail extended - spent
- Eyes - yellow audible eyes
Eelworm
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - red
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - four black saddles hackles splayed
- Body - black fuzzy wool yarn
- Hackle - black saddle hackle, palmered over body
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Comments - If a fuzzy wool for the body cannot be found, mohair can be substituted.
Frog - Whitlock's Swimmimng
- Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
- Thread - fl. green floss
- Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - two lime saddle hackles, four dyed olive grizzly saddle hackles and lime krystal flash
- Collar - lime green hackle
- Wing - dark green deer hair
- Legs - yellow and green rubber hackle
- Head - green, black and yellow deer hair spun and clipped (in bands and mostly green)
- Eyes - white audible eyes
Hairwater Pup - Black/purple
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - red
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - purple rabbit fur strip-also over the body
- Rib - fine silver wire
- Body - black rabbit dubbing
- Collar - black deer hair
- Head - black deer hair spun and clipped
- Eyes - audible eyes blue
Frog - Wiggle Legs
- Hook - stinger sizes 2 and 6
- Thread - white
- Rear legs - tied on with wire - hook shank cut-dark green bucktail over white single knotted for foot-then lacquered.
- Body - predominately olive deer hair with bands of yellow and black with white under belly - all spun and clipped.
- Front legs - four strands of white rubrer hackle in each leg - knotted
- Eyes - medium yellow audible eyes
Jig-a-bugger, black
- Hook - nymph/streamer 3X size 8
- Thread - black
- Tail - black rabbit fur with a few strands of black krystal flash
- Body - black crystal chenille or opalescent ESTAZ
- Hackle - black hackle palmered over the body
- Eyes - silver hour glass eye painted pink with black pupil
Leech - Egg Sucking
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- Hook - streamer 6X 4 - 10
- Thread - black
- Tail - black marabou & a few strands of flash
- Rib - silver wire
- Body - black chenille & black saddle hackle (palmered over chenille)
- Head - silver bead
Comments - Mohair yarn is can substituted chenille then black palmered saddle hackle can be omitted. Can substitute gold wire and gold brass bead.
Leech (Wooly Bugger)
- Hook - streamer 6X 4 - 10
- Thread - black
- Tail - black marabou & a few strands of flash
- Rib - silver wire
- Body - black chenille & black saddle hackle (palmered over chenille)
- Head - red chenille
Comments - Mohair yarn is can substituted chenille then black palmered saddle hackle can be omitted. Can substitute gold wire.
Mouse
- Hook - stinger sizes 2, 6, 10
- Thread - black
- Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - dark brown leather strip
- Body - dark deer hair spun an clipped on the bottom
- Ears - dark brown leather cut to shape
- Collar - dark deer hair flared
- Head - dark deer hair spun and clipped
- Whiskers - dark moose body hair
- Eyes - black waterproof marker
Perch
- Hook - keel - 1/0 - 6
- Thread - yellow single strand floss
- Tail - red krystal flash
- Body - pearl diamond braid (metallic braid)
- Wing - geen marabou over yellow calftail
- Sides - dyed yellow grizzly hackle
- Topping - peacock herl strands
- Collar - olive and orange deer hair
- Head - yellow and olive deer hair spun and clipped
- Eyes - audible eyes
Rabbit Strip Diver
- Hook - stinger - 2, 6, 10
- Thread - white
- Weed Guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - yellow rabbit fur strip
- Topping - gold flashabou
- Collar - yellow deer hair spun and clipped on the bottom
- Head - yellow deer hair spun and clipped to shape
Shad Fly - orange
- Hook - nymph/streamer 3X size 2 - 6
- Thread - fl. fire-orange single strand floss
- Tail - fl. fire-orange floss - short
- Body - fl. fire-orange floss
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Comments - the green shad fly is tied the same except fl. green floss is used.
Whitlock's Lectric Leech
- Hook -standard salmon hook - 1/0 - 2
- Thread - black
- Weed guard - heavy clear monofilament
- Tail - black marabou
- Shellback - peacock herl over the marabou tail
- Rib - fine gold wire
- Body - black wool yarn
- Sides - electric blue flashabou - ends as part of tail
- hackle - black palmered over the body