Barbs Sculpin
OK GUYS
Here is a pattern everyone should have in their box, and lots of them.
Barbs Sculpin
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Here is a pattern of sculpin I tied for my wife in the early 70's for fishing in a small lake north of Castlegar in southern B.C. Canada. She wanted me to tie a fly for her that would resemble the sculpins in the lake. She wanted it to be her fly. The pattern was so good that I found it worked anywhere there were sculpins. I now use it extensively in the Columbia River. It has produced fish up to 30 inches in length. You don't get wacks of fish because I think the pattern is too big for small fish. Fish over 18 inches do love it and it is easy to tie.
Hook-- 3 and 4x long #6, 4, and 2. The marabou I use on top of the fly is black and olive 50/50. For the tail 1/3 black and 2/3rds olive. Black in the center.
I don't use marabou tips, put on the marabou and then tear it to length. Sculpins are chunky not skinny. The body is yellow and black verigated chenille or gold chenille, medium. Tie tight or use lots of glue or you will pull the marabou out when you tear it off. Don't cut the marabou. Two wraps of chenille then marabou, repeat. There should be 3 or more bunches of marabou on top of the hook. For years I just used grey deer hair for the head, works well, but I now use olive and black for the head. Put one bunch of hair in your stacker then put the next bunch in on top and tap hard. Works well. Trim flat on the bottom. If you glue each stage the fly will last a long time. Even with pike. Good luck
Note Sculpins change color depending on their background. Can be brown and tan, black and green, grey and off white, etc., etc.
I made a sculpin with a 1/0 salmon hook and used it to catch Pike in Clear lake south of Calgary. Cought so many pike I thought my are was going to fall off. click on the picture for larger view.
Bjay
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