Fly Tying: The Black Death Tarpon Fly with Martyn White

The black death is a well established colour scheme for tarpon and can be tied in a range of ways, whether in the keys style like this or as a fiber minnow or bunny it's very effective offering the fish a good highly visible silhouette and a flash of colour. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways head to / flickingfeathers and sign up or donate at www.paypal.com/paypalme/flick...
Material list
Hook: Gamakatsu SC15 size 1/0 -4/0
Thread: Red Danville's flat waxed nylon
Tail: Black saddle hackles
Flash: Peacock crinkle mirror flash
Rear collar: Black saddle hackle or schlappen
Front collar: Fluoro Red marabou
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[@MM-tt3np]

Nice Matuka-ish pattern

[@FinLineFly]

Great work. One of my favorite Tarpon flies. Thanks for sharing!

[@MyPancho1]

Beauty!

[@FlickingFeathers]

Thanks Gary

[@AllanMHutton]

Impressive!!!

[@FlickingFeathers]

thanks Allan

[@flyfishingchannel]

Beautiful!

[@FlickingFeathers]

thanks!

[@joelcatron5261]

This one has a lot of movement .Very simple to tie , and is easy to cast . I use schlappen , no marabou .

[@FlickingFeathers]

Yeah, when I've tied them for myself I've used a few materials, I doubt the fish care either way but the guy I'm tying these for was quite specific about what he wanted so marabou it is. Weirdly he wanted a few different colours tied with schlappen or hackle.