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Bouface Clouser
Fly Materials
| Tail | Magnum zonker strip, white. |
Tying Instructions
| Instructions |
This is a wrinkle on John Barr's famous pike pattern, which is usually tied without weight or with a bead head. It helps to reinforce the thread wraps securing the zonker strip with Zap-a-Gap or equivalent. I tie these with only three or four layers of marabou for the collar. Additional layers slow the descent of the fly in the water (which sometimes isn't too bad a thing), but they also tend to get snarled in pike teeth. I think that this is a case of less being more. |