Originally Posted by macrabbit
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Courtesy of troutfly.

(please don't post to this thread until after troutfly posts his tweak, to keep pic & tale together)


Here it is folks.
The Steelhead Prairie Thunder is an adaptation of a featherwing streamer I tied up a number of years ago while watching a massive storm brewing. The original fly works quite well as a trolled fly for lakers and rainbows. I suspect it would work for Arctic Char but I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet. For this version I dropped the Silver Badger hackles over black hackles. As well there is a substantially thicker bundle of flashabou in this version. The flowing hackles represent the black clouds while the flashabou represents the lightening.

Hook: Partridge CS42 Bomber size 2-6
Thread: Black UNI 6/0
Tail: Complete Golden Pheasant Tippet
Body: Black Wapsi Bugger Chenille
Wing: Holographic Flashabou (any bright colour)
Hackle: Dyed Black Ringneck Pheasant Rump by Wapsi

Have fun with it gang.

Last edited by troutfly; 01/25/12. Reason: sp