Silver Shiner (Thunder Creek)

Streamer

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #2 – 10 3xL or 4xL straight eye streamer

Thread: heavy white

Body Parts: tail, body, underbody, overbody, head, gills, eyes

Materials: two pheasant hen coverts, flat silver tinsel, white bucktail, sparse, brown bucktail, sparse, epoxy, red enamel, white under black enamel

Notes:

A Keith Fulcher Thunder Creek series of streamers

from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

tie the bucktail shank length hanging out over the eye by the butt ends

fold the bucktail back and tie over with a band of thread to create a rather long head, apply epoxy (or UV resin)

paint the underside of the thread band with red enamel for gills

paint on eyes with enamel white under black