Smith’s Lake at the Frothy Coffee sandbar.

Forty minutes with the bread flies for nothing. When the mullet would chase but not eat the bread flies, regardless of size, floating or sinking, I went for this.

Thirty minutes with the “Unnamed” – nineteen landed and multiple “quick releases”.

Cast far past where you think the school is, which is where the bigger fish are. Strip, strip, pause. Strip strike any touch. If you don’t get a large fish you’ll just have to suffer with a smaller one.

Materials

• Hook – Nymph 2X size 14
• Thread – Invisible thread
• Body – Three white ostrich herl plumes
• Ribbing – Holographic tinsel
• Wing case – Two peacock herl fibres
• Thorax – Chartreuse yarn or soft fibres

Tying Instructions

1. Dab the hook with a little Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails.
2. Start the thread at the two thirds mark and cover the cover the hook with the thread to the barb.
3. Thread back to the start point.
4. Tie in the tinsel back to the bend on top of the hook.
5. Thread back to the start point.
6. Tie in the three ostrich herl plumes by the base on top of the hook back to the bend.
7. Thread back to the start point.
8. Wrap the body with the herl. Tie it off and half-hitch.
9. Reverse rib the ostrich herl with the tinsel.
10. Tie off and half-hitch.
11. At the eye tie in two peacock herl fibres back to the starting point.
12. Dub a thorax of chartreuse soft fibres against the ostrich herl.
13. Fold the peacock fibres and create a wing case.
14. Tie it off and half hitch. A dab of Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails wouldn’t go astray.