Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step

Thunder Creek variant.

This is how I like to tie a minnow for small streams on a light weight hook
for fishing off a 3wt six or seven foot rod

Hook - size #14 to #8 mayfly or nymph hook 2x/l
thread - rusty brown 6/0
wing - black squirrel tail
throat - orange squirrel tail
body - Mother of pearl flashabou
Glaze - ClearCureGoo, acrylic or Epoxy (Sally Hansen's for masochists.)
KrystalFlash accents to wing.
Head - CCG

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step1
lay on five turns of thread then tie in a cleaned and stacked wing of squirrel hair, tips over the hook eye
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...istie/wing.png

step2
Cut off butts of wing,
add throat fibres - same length or shorter than the wing
same density or less so than the wing.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...tie/throat.png

step3
cut off butts of throat fibres, coat in acrylic glue, wrap thread to bend, tying in mother of pearl flashabou. Cure the CCG
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step4
wrap the body material (MoP Flashabou) to wing and back again, tie off, rib with tying thread. Half hitch
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...stie/MoPin.png

step5
glaze the body, shape - then cure .
Tie in krystal flash highlights
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...tie/glazed.png

step6
Fold the wing back over the body, tie down, three wraps.
Fold the throat fibres under the hook, tie down three wraps
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...gandThroat.png

step7
fold highlights back below the wing
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ie/wrapped.png

step8
whip finish
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...tie/minnow.png
Take the time to dress all the materials correctly into place, trim surplus fibres and excess materials

step9
Add a fluorescent collar
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3.../fluorneck.png

step10
Glaze the head, shape and cure
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...e/complete.png

repeat
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ie/Minnows.png

thanks for the tutorial! they look great, and i love that epoxy head. how do you find they fish?

Very Nice Roy !!!!! Thanks for the step by step !!! Will have to tie some of these beast up when I clear my table of the other projects !!!!! :bigthumb:

Nice tie! I'll have to try some for sea run cutties this spring. :)

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Originally Posted by jw_sartini

thanks for the tutorial! they look great, and i love that epoxy head. how do you find they fish?

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Thanks, all.
jw - I made these for my mate Shawn in Aus.
He has been spreading them like chaff among his mates and so far
the various colours - black, tan, olive, pink have taken six species in seriously convincing numbers.

It spells eureka, I reckon.
I'll be trying a few in the northern hemisphere in the new season.

Deadly for trout and sea trout.
Sea-run fish love them as do marine species and carp!!!
:D

Very nice !!!!!!!!!!! Looks like some excellent backcasting butt nailers :shock: (errrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... forward casting troot catchers :mrgreen:)