Flash Fly

The Flash Fly is a woolly bugger type fly invented by a Pennsylvania steelhead fisherman.  Not to be confused with the Jim Teeny pattern, this fly is good when the water is slightly off color and when the fish can't see a white woolly bugger that well.  Tie some up and try them the next time you go fishing. 

Hook: MFC no. 7008
Thread: white 3/0
Weight: gold beadhead
Tail: white marabou
Body: silver hackle flash

STEP 1:  Flatten the barb on your streamer hook of choice and slide on a gold beadhead (the small hole should be going in the direction of the hook eye). Put the hook in the vise and attach your white thread mid-shank and wrap back to the tie-in-point.

STEP 2: Select a large white marabou feather and remove the center stem.  Tie the marabou feather in so that it extends the same length as the hook shank from the tie in point.  Secure the marabou with many thread wraps and make sure the entire shank is covered. Trim off the excess.

STEP 3: Tie in a length of pearl hackle flash so that the "flash" points backwards.  Advance your thread to behind the beadhead.

STEP 4: Wrap the pearl hackle flash up to your thread.  This fly is most effective when tied sparse so don't overdo it with the flash.  Tie off and whip finish.



The finished fly.

A large inland Brown that ate the Flash Fly.

Tyler Straigh

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