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Alaskabou - Green
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
- Thread - fl. fire orange floss
- Wing - fl. green marabou with a few strands each of green flashabou and lime krystal flash all as a large collar surrounding hook
- Hackle - white with as much base fluff as possible
Alaskan Polar Shrimp
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2/0 - 6
- Thread - fl. fire orange
- Tail - hot orange hackle fibers
- Rib - flat gold tinsel
- Body - fl. fire orange chenille
- Wing - white calftail with pearl flashabou
- Hackle - Hot orange with as much base fluff as possible
Auckland Humpy
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook size 4
- Thread - black
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Wing - pink over white bucktail - long
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Black Jack
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2/0 - 4
- Thread - black
- Body - black diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Hackle - black marabou collar
Black Marabou
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
- Thread - black
- Tail - green flashabou, butts from body
- Rib - black thread
- Body - black green flashabou
- Collar - silver flashabou over green flashabou
Comments - Replacing flashabou with krystal flash adds even more sparkle to the pattern.
Bright Roe
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - orange
- Rib - oval silver tinsel
- Body - fl. fire-orange chenille
- Wings - fl. fire-orange egg yarn and orange krystal flash
Bristol Bay Matuka
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - white
- Rib - fine oval gold tinsel
- Wing - Two yellow hackles enveloped by four red hackles (two on each side) all tied down matuka-style
- Throat - red marabou
- Hackle - orange and yellow hackle mixed
Comment - This pattern is more effective when fluorescent-dyed feathers are used.
Candlefish
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater-lon with straight eye
- Thread - black
- Body - silver metallic braid
- Wings -grey duck quills
- Hackle - green over white bucktail topped with pearl flashabou
Christmas Tree
- Hook - standard stainless steel saltwater hook 1/0 - 4
- Thread - black
- Tail - orange calf tail and orange krystal flash, long
- Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Hackle - orange and yellow, mixed
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Comet
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
- Thread - white
- Tail - orange calf tail and orange krystal flash, long
- Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Hackle - orange and yellow, mixed
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Coho Golden
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 3/0 - 6
- Thread - black
- Tail - orange polar bear (or subtitute)
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Wing - olive over white polar bear with jungle cock body feathers on each side
- Topping - gold pheasant crest
Denali
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
- Thread - black
- Tail - red hackle fibers
- Body - heavy copper wire
- Wing - bucktail in layers: silver doctor blue on top and bottom orange in the middle
- Throat - yellow hackle
Flash Fly
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 2 /0- 6
- Thread - red
- Tail - silver flashabou
- Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Wing - silver over purple flashabou
- Hackle - red
Glo Bug - Orange
- Hook - stout glo bug hook sizes 4 - 8
- Thread - fl orange single strand floss
- Tail - flame (fire orange) glo bug yarn
Comments - Glo bug yarn is added to hook much in the same way that spun deer hair is added, usually in 3 ads. Alternatively, Krystal eggs (preformed eggs with bits of pearl flashabou protuding) can simply be super-glued onto the hook.
Green Weenie
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 8
- Thread - fl. green floss
- Tail - black calftail
- Body - silver diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Shoulder - fl. green chenille
- Hackle - fl. green hackle
- Eyes - silver bead chain
King's Shrimp
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 4 - 12
- Thread - fire-orange
- Tail - orange bucktail long
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Hackle - orange palmered
- Shellback - bucktail orange
Midnight
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 1 - 4
- Thread - black
- Tail - black bucktail
- Rib - oval gold tinsel
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Wing - black over white bucktail
Orange Boss
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 2 - 6
- Thread - orange
- Tag - flat silver tinsel
- Tail - black calftail long
- Rib - Oval silver tinsel
- Body - orange chenille
- Hackle - Black collar style
- Eyes - silver bead chain
Comments - Black boss is the same except the body is black chenille.
Pink Passion
- Hook - stainless steel saltwater hook sizes 1/0 - 4
- Thread - fl. red
- Body - pearl diamond braid (metallic braid tinsel)
- Shoulder - fl. red chenille
- Underhackle - pearl krystal flash
- Hackle - fl. hot pink
Pixies Revenge
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
- Thread - fl. fire-orange floss
- Wing - white marabou withwith a little of both silver flashabou and red krystal flash all surrounding hook
- Hackle - cerise with as much base fluff as possible
Popsicle
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 3/0 - 2
- Thread - fire-orange
- Tail - fl. orange marabou
- Mid-hackle - cerise marabou
- Hackle - purple hackle
- Flash - gold, electric blue and purple flashabou added at tail and mid-hackle
Showgirl
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook size 1/0
- Thread - fl. orange floss
- Wing - cerise marabou, purple flashabou with red and pearl krystal flash-all as a large collar surrounding hook
- Hackle - purple with as much base fluff as possible
Spade
- Hook - standard salmon streamer hook sizes 1/0 - 6
- Thread - black
- Tail - natural dark deer hair
- Body - black chenille
- Hackle - grizzly collar