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LP(Long Pool) Charm

LP Charm

This is a pattern that I designed back in the fall of 1998. I was looking for an original pattern that had some very good fall salmon colors, red, black, and orange. I also wanted to give it a little bit of a spey look and feel. At the time myself and a number of my fly tying friends were experimenting with using the red rump feathers from a Golden Pheasant Skin for spey like hackle. The pattern seems to have worked as it caught me a 36" salmon on the first week it was tried. It seems to live up to the old adage of bright fly, bright day, dark fly, dark day, as it worked well on a dark gloomy day. The fly was originally named the Long Pig by a bunch of my fishing buddies. It was named for the pool I was fishing it in and as they said "The Pig" of a salmon it caught. I changed the name because Long Pig just didn't sound right. So I came up with the Joel's Lucky Charm. Since that time I have settled on the LP(Long Pool) Charm. I hope it brings you the same luck as me.

 

Hook:

 Any salmon hook Size 2-10

Thread:

 Red

Tag:

 Oval Silver Tinsel

Butt:

 Red Floss

Rib:

 Oval Silver Tinsel

Body:

 Black Floss

Collar:

 Red Body Feather from a Golden Pheasant Skin tied in as a collar and pulled down as a throat.

Wing:

 Orange Goat Hair over which is 2 strands of Red Krystal Flash over which is Black Dyed Squirrel Tail

Head:

 Red Thread

 

Instructions:

 This is a pretty standard salmon fly pattern. Not much extra to say about this one. Make sure that the Red Rump feather is at least long enough to reach back to the bend in the hook, hopefully longer to give it that spey look. You could also try tying in an extra red rump feather at the middle and rear of the body. That makes it that much more spey looking.

 

 
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