Turn the fly upside down so you don t cut any of the rubber legs.
Skunk with rubber legs fly.
Tie it in different sizes and with various colors of dubbing to imitate a wide range of bugs.
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.
Position those and we have ourself a bona fide earl madsen dry skunk.
Secure your chenille at the bend of the hook.
This was likely the first fly to incorporate rubber legs.
He popularized the well known michigan skunk.
A really useful sea trout fly.
The more modern versions of the skunk are also tied with yellow chenille.
The traditional skunk used white legs while many of the more modern versions use barred rubber legs.
Wrap your chenille forward wrapping it in and out and around the legs as necessary in order to keep the x shape.
Wrap a thread base from behind the eye of the hook to.
Simple sleek and effective tied on an aluminium tube.
I bought some of these to put on michigan skunk patterns but i ended up using this stuff for everything.
Earl madsen was a true innovator and developed a number of wet and dry flies.
This simple fly likely imitates various emerging insects.
Believed to be the first fly tied with rubber legs from old golf balls.
Size is just about perfect.
I like to tie the pattern in a variety of colors black white brown yellow and olive tan.
The rubber leg wooly bugger is a combination of an old pattern the wooly bugger and a newer pattern the yuk bug.
A gold bead is added for extra weight.
Round rubber legs medium white.
I m going to turn it in the vise sideways so you can see from the side profile that it looks.
If your looking to match the hatch the wet skunk is a perfect stonefly searching pattern.
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.
Hook tmc 5212 10 thread danville 6 0 black tail squirrel tail body chenille black legs medium rubber white wing.
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.
The barring goes all the way around the rubber so you dont have to worry about tying it in at the perfect angle.
Popularized by earl madsen also called the madsen skunk although he wasn t the creator.
The rubber legs and marabou tail both provide motion which generally triggers strikes.
I m tempted to throw out all of my old rubber legs and replace them with this stuff.
