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| Flex-Tail Minnows. ( Wet ). |
This is one of my recent fly creation and is call the Flex-Tail Minnows. I notice a lot of bait fish patterns out there doesn't have any tails and a minnow isn't a minnow without a tail, it just doesn't seem to look right to me. So I came up with an idea to make a simple fish tail with goose biots & some flash materials. I'm pretty happy with the result of this new bait fish patterns and I can't wait until the season open to try it out. I've posted the tying steps below for all you bait fish patterns lover out there.!
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| Tying Step #1. |
Step #1. Get 2 goose biot fibres and hold them with your index finger & thumb. Have the biot in a x position, 1 biot should be a bit longer than the other and make a few thread wraps with the bobbin and whip finish.
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| Tying Steps #2 |
Step #2. Wrap the flash material between the biot and make a few tight thread wraps & whip finish. Cut off any extra flash material on the tag end.
( Flash material can be sub with stretch floss )
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| Step #1 and #2 |
It should look like this and the flex tail is ready to be tie on to a hook. Cote a layer of head cement to the tie off area just for the sake of durability.
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| Tying Step #3 |
Step #3. Tie tail to hook. Length of the tail is determine by the type of hackle you use. But can be sub with dye mallard, Hen, Schlappen or marabou etc.
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| Tying Steps #4. |
Steps #4. Tie in a small bunch of fox tail fibres. Extra flash can be added. Once again materials can be sub with others.
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| Tying Steps #5. |
Tying steps #5. Tie in the back end of a large schlappen feathers and start to palmer feather up the hook shank & whip finish. Make sure the feather fibres doesn't extend past the tail. More than 1 feather can be used, as long as the hook shank is cover. Remember to leave some room near the hook eye for adding fish eyes later on.
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| Tying Steps #6 |
Tying steps #6. Stick on 2 holographic fish eyes and cover top & bottom with some UV resin, cote eyes with a layer of head cement. The Flex Tail Minnows is complete.!
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| Flex-Tail Minnows. ( Wet ). |
When this bait fish patterns get wet, the flash really shine through.
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| Flex-Tail Grey. |
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| Flex-Tail White. |
