Hoodlum Streamer

Although verging on the fancy, this streamer was inspired not only by the sparser flat-wing patterns that have proven so effective, not only on North American Stripped bass but also on Scandinavian sea run brown trout. This is just one of the flies taken from a series of salt water patterns I have been tying, that have been given the handle ‘salt water classics’.

Hook: Mustad Ultra Point 60543NP # 4-6
Tying thread: Dyneema or other GSP thread
Tail: UV2 white buck-tail
Tail flanks: Two white hackles and two blue grizzle hackles
Flash: Blue Fringe Wing
Body: Bills body braid blue
Wing: Blue and black buck-tail, flanked with two barred ginger or cree saddle hackles
Throat: UV2 White buck-tail
Topping: Peacock herl from just under the eye of the tail feather
Horns: Two strands of long Blue tip dyed Lady Amherst pheasant tail fibres
Cheeks: Jungle cock or substitute