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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
step1
lay on five turns of thread then tie in a cleaned and stacked wing of squirrel hair, tips over the hook eye
step2
Cut off butts of wing,
add throat fibres - same length or shorter than the wing
same density or less so than the wing.
step3
cut off butts of throat fibres, coat in acrylic glue, wrap thread to bend, tying in mother of pearl flashabou. Cure the CCG
step4
wrap the body material (MoP Flashabou) to wing and back again, tie off, rib with tying thread. Half hitch
step5
glaze the body, shape - then cure .
Tie in krystal flash highlights
step6
Fold the wing back over the body, tie down, three wraps.
Fold the throat fibres under the hook, tie down three wraps
step7
fold highlights back below the wing
step8
whip finish
Take the time to dress all the materials correctly into place, trim surplus fibres and excess materials
step9
Add a fluorescent collar
step10
Glaze the head, shape and cure
repeat
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Fry
Re: Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step
thanks for the tutorial! they look great, and i love that epoxy head. how do you find they fish?
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Re: Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step
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:
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Egg
Re: Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step
Nice tie! I'll have to try some for sea run cutties this spring. :)
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Re: Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step
Originally Posted by
jw_sartini
thanks for the tutorial! they look great, and i love that epoxy head. how do you find they fish?
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
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Re: Bullet Head minnow - Step by Step
Very nice !!!!!!!!!!! Looks like some excellent backcasting butt nailers :shock: (errrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... forward casting troot catchers :mrgreen:)
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