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The Sugar Pop

How do you tie a The Sugar Pop?

The Sugar Pop is a streamer fly pattern for trout, steelhead, salmon. Find its 9 materials and 16 tying steps below.

A bright pink-and-blue tube fly from April Vokey that is built to move water and draw aggressive eats from trout, steelhead, and salmon.

Added to catalog February 17, 2026 · Updated March 29, 2026

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Apply a layer of thread near the bottom of the tube.
Make a dubbing loop, then dub in the fur of pink arctic fox tail.
Use a bodkin to pick out any trapped or matted fibers.
Lay a half pinch of flash dub over the fox and tie in so that it covers the dubbing.
Clip the individual fibers of a blue rhea feather in clumps of 3-6 and stack these fibers until they cover the entire diameter of the hook.
Once tied in, hold the fibers tightly and then unwrap all the thread until you are down to the bare tube.
Then wrap three times to secure all the fibers. Don’t trim the ends.
Attach a strand of blue flat-braid and cover any existing rhea stems.
Wrap the braid forward.
Repeat dubbing and rhea steps, adding an extra dubbing ball of blue arctic fox.
Complete with a pink teal feather by peeling its left side and tying in the tip.
Hackle it over the rhea.
Tie a junglecock feather onto each side as a cheek.
Whip finish. Tear the tips of the feathers until the fly is at desired length.
Slightly melt the end of tube and coat with head cement.
Slide down the leader with hook, then go fishing!