No.12 Peppermint rock Boobie

The Peppermint Rock Boobie 

This  boobie fly I composed and I started to fish with last year. It quickly became a favorite and delivered many nice rainbows. I wanted to get a little dimmed fly, yet the viable color combinations of red and white. I also wanted to exclude the tail on the fly to maybe find a pattern that provides more clean takes when the fish would otherwise just go and pull the flies' tails.

Material list

Hook: Kamasan B160

Thread: White UTC 70

Body: White Crystal chenille like Mini Gel Core Fritz, uv Diamond White and Medium Crystal Hackle, fl flame red. Both from Flybox.Co.uk 

Eyes: 6 mm White foam cylinder 

No 6 Green Mean Machine

Now you may think I'm crazy. 

What is it for kind of fly?

 It is one of my "normal" flies for fishing for rainbow trout. 

I have for many years been fishing, quite frequently, with hefty mouthfuls flies. 

Rainbows often fall for these monsters flies and often when the usual patterns do not deliver. 

Just this pattern has a very high buoyancy and I fish them much like a bobbie fly. i.e. with a fast sinking line and relative way short streamer, a maximum of 1.5 m long.

Materiallist

Hook: Gamakatsu F314 size 2 or 4

Thread: Strong thread that realy manage to tie down deer hair. I prefer white thread.

Tail: Black striped olive marabou

Boddy: Chatreuse green deer hair, 3-4 bundles

Ben: Six pieces Chatreuse green sililegs with black stripes on each side of the fly.

Eye: Olive foamcylinder 5-6 mm in diameter and about 12-15 mm long. Hen you have fixed the foam cylinder fix it with a dropp of superglue. 

Remember that after yoa have tide the tail you have to tie in the eyes and then the legs before you finish the fly with the boddy.

Green mean machine