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Sculp Snack
How do you tie a Sculp Snack?
Sculp Snack is a streamer fly pattern for trout. Find its 9 materials and 13 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 4 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- George Daniel
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Ahrex PR374 90 Jig Streamer #2
- Bead: 5.5mm Bead
- Weight: Lead Wire
- Thread: 6/0 Tying Thread
- Tail: Sculpin Olive Marabou
- Flash: Gold Flashabou
- Body: Hareline UV Polar Chenille Olive
- Legs: Wapsi Sili Legs Perfectly Barred Pumpkin
- Head Cement: Super Glue
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Tying instructions
Secure the hook in the vise.
Wrap the thread to the bend of the hook.
Wrap lead wire behind the bead, 6-7 wraps.
Apply super glue to the lead wire.
Start the tying thread.
Tie in the marabou tail, about the length of the hook shank.
Tie in the gold flashabou, extending slightly beyond the marabou tail.
Tie in the polar chenille.
Wrap the polar chenille forward, untwisting as you go, to form the body.
Tie in the sili legs on each side.
Trim the sili legs to half the length between the body and the tail.
Whip finish the fly.
Apply super glue to the head.