Weedrunner

Written by Jeff Serena Hits: 474

Fly Materials

Tail	Black marabou.
Body	Black chenille.
Hackle	he palmered hackle is a grizzly saddle, the neck hackle is a gadwall flank feather.

Tying Instructions

Instructions

Notes:
This contraption is a variation on Bill Gammel's clever
Weedrunner. Since moving to mid-coast Maine, I've been struggling with
the problem of fishing to bass in shallow water choked with lily pads.
The stuff is so thick by mid summer that even conventional popping bugs
with mono weed guards get hung up on the retrieve, and pulling them
free from those tough lily pad stems makes a disturbance that will
spook fish for the distance of a fair cast in every
direction. The Weedrunner protects the hook point both by shielding
the gape with foam and by floating on the
surface with the hook point up. Despite all the protection against
snags, this fly has excellent hooking
performance.

The duck hackle and marabou move in the water even when the fly is at rest, so the fly can be worked very slowly
and still have a lot of movement. This fly can be tied in all colors.
I've worked some up in chartreuse, yellow, and purple, and they all catch fish.

Black chenille.