Brook Trout

Brook Trout

Streamer

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #2 – 10 4XL – 6XL straight eye streamer

Thread: white

Underwing: red flash

Wings: olive grizzly hackle feathers

Underbody: orange bucktail

Belly: white bucktail

Overwing: dyed blue dark bucktail hair

Head: varnish or epoxy

Gills: red enamel

Eyes: white emamel dot with back enamel dot in center

Notes:

Brook Trout: a Keith Fulcher Thunder Creek Series fly pattern

From the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

tie the white bucktail belly and blue bucktail overwing with tips body length over the eye, fold back both tight agains the shank and tie in with a band of thread at about 1/5 back from the eye.