How to tie the Honey Badger Sculpin. Top EURO jigged STREAMER
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2022
- The Honey Badger Sculpin is an original pattern of mine. This heavily weighted jigged streamer is super effective when it is slowly jigged near the bottom on a euro rig. The key to it is the pine squirrel zonker strip married with the UV polar chenille. Together the two give the perfect amount of movement and flash. In this fly tying tutorial, I give the step by step instructions for tying this pattern.
Make some room in your box for this one…it will catch you some fish!
Tight Lines!
Cory
PS: Check out my video: "December Streamer Fishing (Euro Style): Jigging Streamers on the Euro Rod". • Jigging STREAMERS on t...
In this video you will see how I fish this jigged streamer.
Ingredients:
Olive Honey Badger:
Hook: Hanak 400 size 8 (or any equivalent hook)
Bead: INVERTED 4mm black nickel tungsten
Thread: 8/0 Uni Olive dun (or any olive thread)
Tail/body/head: Olive MICRO pine squirrel zonker strip
Body: Hareline Medium UV polar chenille Olive-brown
Gills: red flashabou
Black Honey Badger:
Bead: INVERTED 4mm tungsten silver
Thread: black
Tail/body/head: Black MICRO pine squirrel zonker strip
Body: Hareline Medium polar chenille Black
Natural Honey Badger:
Bead: INVERTED 4mm tungsten copper
Thread: brown
Tail/body/head: Natural MICRO pine squirrel zonker strip
Body: Hareline Medium polar chenille Olive-brown
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Following your videos, I tied up several color variations and have been using them lately for WNY tributary smallies using a Contact II 10’ 9” 2wt with a Pezon & Michel leader and Color Line indicator. What an effective system! Smallies, trout, carp and even suckers LOVE this fly! Every time I play your videos my wife says, “there’s Cory!” Can’t thank you enough for your videos. They have truly been a game changer for me!
Great tie Cory...very helpful step-by-step tying and fishing instructions ...thank you for sharing, very generous...will definitely give this puppy a try on my euro set up on our UK rivers
Fished teh Honey Badger the first time over the weekend in PA. Even in low water conditions this pattern performed very well. TY
I am so glad I tied this pattern! Caught so many stocker bows today on the Olive version of this bug in Northwestern NJ. Riffles, slow pools didn’t matter they just crushed it. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have incorporated many of your fly tying techniques and have improved considerably at the table. Thanks again!
Just adding to the comments on this pattern.... this week in Central Oregon on the Crooked River,, the natural pine version resulted in my only fish of the session. We are experiencing unusually off color water due to extremely low levels in the reservoir that feeds the Crooked wild and scenic stretch this winter. Normally we would be fishing extremely low and clear flows on this river in the winter. After no luck in a normally productive stretch of water, with the usual midge patterns and nymphs on NZ wool indicators... switched to a Czech leader and the sculpin. Boom it was the ticket...I haven't fished streamers a lot on this water, but this pattern may change that. Thanks for sharing your work.
Hey Cory! Ahh the mop,never leave home without it. I’m going to go tie a few more for tomorrow I will try that method. Thanks friend!
Just came across your channel in my feed. Great pattern you have there and a lot simpler than other scuplin patterns I have seen. Going to tie a few and should work well on the streams here in PA. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this pattern Cory. Works wonderful here in Alberta! Caught some my biggest brownies this year on this pattern.
I just came across this video. Thanks for a good n understandable tutorial. I will have to put some in my flybox then give them a try in nor CA waters where i live. They are fishy looking and I like that. God Bless n Fish on
That’s a great idea with the thread at the front for the bead to bite on to!! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome pattern and great video! Very clear and concise with background and context on why you do what you do. You da man!!
So cool watching your fly tying skills Cory ,, I hope to tie a few similar patterns.. I have to look for such sculpin material.. Like to try any in those Catskill NY west east branch Delaware tribs.. always a pleasure watching your instructionals
Simple clean flies that work! Keep the videos coming.
That'll catch em for sure! Those sculpin olive pine squirrel zonkers are awesome.
Great video mate! Very clear, thorough and informative.
Nice job Cory. I'm just watching this video again and getting ready to spin a few up. Thanks again for sharing this pattern. Your videos are always so informative and helpful. Tight lines.
Great tie! Love micro squirrel zonkers. This pattern is very reminiscent of Devin Olsen’s Back Flop Jig
Luv-IT! Can't wait to try it this spring on the N. Platte River.
Well done. I tied your Walt’s at my Dec Project Healing Waters class. Introduced the dubbing loop you use for the ribbing. I plan to build on that by trying the Honey Badger in January to continue the dubbing loop concept with spun collar. Thanks.
I love this pattern. I was just on the look out for a jig streamer and this popped up. I may go to a smaller size I think for our small Welsh trout. But this is a great tie. Thank you very much.