Skunk With Rubber Legs Fly

Tie it in different sizes and with various colors of dubbing to imitate a wide range of bugs.

Skunk with rubber legs fly.

A really useful sea trout fly. Grab the two rubber legs on each side and stand them up and pick your shortest one and cut the rest to match. Size is just about perfect. Earl madsen was a true innovator and developed a number of wet and dry flies.

Featuring one of the most complete fly tying material selection available on the web. I m going to turn it in the vise sideways so you can see from the side profile that it looks. Position those and we have ourself a bona fide earl madsen dry skunk. Wrap a thread base from behind the eye of the hook to.

If your looking to match the hatch the wet skunk is a perfect stonefly searching pattern. The rubber legs and marabou tail both provide motion which generally triggers strikes. Simple sleek and effective tied on an aluminium tube. Round rubber legs medium white.

Hook tmc 5212 10 thread danville 6 0 black tail squirrel tail body chenille black legs medium rubber white wing. Turn the fly upside down so you don t cut any of the rubber legs. Featuring natural and synthetic materials including hooks hackle cdc feathers marabou dubbing beads eyes rubber legs chenille synthetic wing fibers hair skins tinsel thread wire wing case materials yarn cements and more. However the pattern shown below in copper white is one of my better producers due to the many medium brown stoneflies in the manistee river.

In a number of past one fly events wet flies have done well. I like to tie the pattern in a variety of colors black white brown yellow and olive tan. I m tempted to throw out all of my old rubber legs and replace them with this stuff. The rubber leg wooly bugger is a combination of an old pattern the wooly bugger and a newer pattern the yuk bug.

Popularized by earl madsen also called the madsen skunk although he wasn t the creator. This simple fly likely imitates various emerging insects. I bought some of these to put on michigan skunk patterns but i ended up using this stuff for everything. A gold bead is added for extra weight.

While the original michigan skunk fly pattern has caught lots of fish over the years its durability was vulnerable as the exposed thread wraps easily became unwound after teeth and or hemostats had their way. Secure your chenille at the bend of the hook. Wrap your chenille forward wrapping it in and out and around the legs as necessary in order to keep the x shape. This was likely the first fly to incorporate rubber legs.

The more modern versions of the skunk are also tied with yellow chenille. He popularized the well known michigan skunk.