SOMETHIN’ ELSE

Streamer

Tied By Darrell Olson

Hook: Tiemco 811S, size 4

Thread: Fine clear monofilament

Materials-

eyes: Small white painted lead dumbbells

belly: Fluorescent white Polar Fibre

throat: Hot pink Fluoro Fibre

flash: Silver Krystal Flash

wing: Gray or Olive Polar Fibre

Notes:

While only occasionally color conscious, freshwater stripers are almost always size-selective. Indeed, properly selecting fly size may be the most common hurdle for striper anglers. Newly hatched thread- fin shad are usually the culprit . Astute striper angler and fly tier Henry Cowen has the perfect answer to this problem in the pattern he calls Somethin’ Else. Henry, a well-known striper guide on Georgia’s Lake Lanier (and a Fly Tyer contributing author), modified a simple Polar Fibre Clouser. Even short lengths of Polar Fibre create movement; many synthetics do not. He added a hot pink Fluoro Fibre throat, which he says “allows the striped bass to pick your fly out of a crowd of thousands of threadfin.” Retrieve the fly with short strips punctuated with three- to four-second pauses. If the fish are still finicky, allow the fly to drop even longer. I like to present the Somethin’ Else with a clear intermediate sinking-tip line, especially in clear autumn or early winter impoundments.

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