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Black Ghost
- Hook - streamer hook 6X
- Thread - black
- Tail - yellow hackle fibers. Tied short and sparse.
- Body - black floss
- Rib - medium flat silver tinsel
- Throat (hackle) - yellow hackle fibers tied sparse
- Wings - four white saddle hacles
- Cheeks - jungle cock eyes (optional)
Black Nose Dace
- Hook - streamer 6X sizes 4 - 12
- Thread - black
- Tail - red yarn short
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Wings - brown bucktail over black bear hair over white bucktail
Brook Trout (Little)
- Hook - streamer 6X sizes 4 - 12
- Thread - black
- Tail - bright green bucktail with a little piece of red floss over
- Rib - flat silver tinsel
- Body - cream wool yarn
- Throat - orange bucktail
- Wings - bucktail - bottom to top - white, orange, green with grey squirrel tail over the top
Fiery Brown
- Hook - streamer 6X sizes 2 - 6
- Thread - black
- Tag - gold floss & tinsel
- Rib - ffine oval gold tinsel
- Body - fiery brown dubbing (seal substitute)
- Throat - brown hackle
- Wings - bronze mallard
- Cheeks - jungle cock eyes (optional)
Grey Ghost
- Hook - streamer 6X sizes 2 - 12
- Thread - black
- Tag - fine flat silver tinsel
- Rib - Fine flat silver tinsel
- Body - orange floss
- Throat - top to bottom: four strands of peacock herl, white bucktail, gold pheasant crest.
- Underwing - gold pheasant crest
- Wings -4 dun grey saddle hackles
- Sides - silver pheasant body feathers
- Cheeks - jungle cock eyes (optional)
Comments - The original pattern called for wings as two saddle hackles olive under and two dun grey over. This was later changed to four oive dun saddles. Lately all dun saddle hackle seems to be the norm.
Matuka - Black
- Hook - streamer 6X long sizes 2 - 12streamer 3X sizes 4 - 8
- Thread - red
- Rib - silver wire
- Body - black chenille, peacock herl or black glo-brite chenille
- Wings - four black hen saddle hackles tied matuka style
- Head - red thread
- Hackle - black hen hackle
- Eyes - painted yellow with black pupil (optional)
Matuka - Olive
- Hook - streamer 6X long sizes 2 - 12
- Thread - olive
- Rib - copper wire
- Body - olive chenille
- Wings - four grizzly hen back hackles dyed olive tied matuka style
- Hackle - dyed olive grizzly hen hackle
- Eyes - painted yellow with a black pupil
Mickey Finn
- Hook - streamer 6X long sizes 2 - 12
- Thread - black
- Rib - fine silver oval tinsel
- Body - flat silver tinsel
- Wings - bucktail in layers-yellow, red, yellow
Muddler Minnow
- Hook - streamer 4X sizes 2 - 14
- Thread - black
- Tail - mottled turkey quill
- Body - gold braided metallic tinsel (or gold tinsel chenille or flat gold tinsel ribbed with gold oval tinsel)
- Underwing - grey squirrel tail fibers
- Wings - mottled turkey quill
- Collar - natural deer hair spun
- Head - natural deer hair spun and clipped
Comments - This is probably the biggest producing streamer pattern in existence.
Rainbow Trout
- Hook - streamer 6X sizes 4 - 12
- Thread - black
- Tail - bright green bucktail
- Rib - flat silver tinsel
- Body - gray rabbit dubbing or gray wool yarn
- Throat - orange bucktail
- Wings - bucktail - bottom to top - white, pink, green with badger hair over the top
- Cheeks - jungle cock eyes (optional)