The Kreelex is a successful pattern for trout. I have fished it on the Snake and Green Rivers, both with success. The audio on this isn’t so great.

From This is Fly Daily

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Today we floated the Madison River from Palisades down to some other place I can’t remember the name of.  On our way to the river from West Yellowstone we stopped at an old favorite fishing spot, but my new mecca, the fly shop at Slide Inn.  The streamer selection there was unbelievable.  You have to love a shop that has more streamers than any other flies.  We picked up some crazy articulated flies and started out the day with high hopes.  Fishing was very slow going. It took us a while to get into some fish.  I ended up catching two nice rainbows on a black conehead sculpin.  Otherwise we hooked only a few more fish for the entire 11 miles of floating.  We worked hard and landed a brown trout, a big whitefish, and a bunch of small rainbows.  In all the day was nice, but the fish were few and far between.  Now, where to fish tomorrow?!

7th Annual OOF Day 1

A rainbow of Fish Sculls (TM)

Have you seen Fish Sculls before? These are the evolutionary next step in fly tying beads.  The Flymen Fishing Co. has created these formed and colored heads for flies that look really compelling.  They are specifically weighted to provide a keel to your streamers and the cool thing is that you don’t put them on as the first step for tying a fly, like a traditional bead.  These slip on at the end of the tie and as a result allow some interesting interaction with your materials such as hackles, rabbit strips, or long dubbing.

Scull Fracture Rainbow

Utah on the Fly contributing user RnF posted a cool tutorial for a pattern he calls the Scull Fracture.  Along with the tutorial you can find the full material listing and some other variations of the pattern.  Looks like a great fly.  I would love to fish the rainbow trout version on the Green River in the summer time after they stock the river.  I have seen several large browns eat little stock trout right off the hook when anglers were reeling them in.  Click here for the full post.  Video below:

Another all digital offering for this week’s fly.  This was drawn in Window’s Paint to get the old-school pixel look of a video game.  I limited myself to the default 28 color set and in some cases drew in pixel-by-pixel, especially the shading and highlights on hook and head.  Not much else to say here.

Lefty's Deceiver Video Game style

Here is the original on Flickr and a zoomed view.

The Chubby Muffin

No, I’m not referring to that girl standing in front of you in the Wal-mart checkout line, with her muffin top spilling out under her cropped top and over her wranglers. This is the name of a killer looking sculpin pattern that I came across the other day. I am a sucker for big streamers and love fishing them, just about every time I get out. The fly is featured in Hatches Magazine online and is tied by Nick Granato, who I understand is a fellow Utahn. Check out the link below for more details about this pattern. Plus you have to love the name. It’s just fun to say.

The Chubby Muffin by Nick Granato

Update:
I found out that there is a whole slew of Chubby Muffin variations he ties. These are some seriously nice looking flies.

More chubby muffins

Check out this tasty streamer.  Thanks @wildxp. I will be tying a few of these babies up for sure!Daily Video – Tying the Slumpbuster