Some of you may remember Coastangler aka Alberto. Alberto is from Spain and lived here in the Vancouver area for about 10 years IIRC. We met after I advertised a sundry of fishing tackle and flies. Alberto got in touch with me via PMs then later email and we exchanged information and later a fishing trip into the wild & mysterious "Salmon Forest" last November. Alberto and his wife had a young family and decided to move back to Spain this year.
Within the last couple of weeks he got in touch with me about a fly he got from me and has proved productive in rivers near Madrid! I was away on an extended trip but got some info back to him. Once I was home I found a sample of the fly and took a picture. It was not a pattern that worked for me so I had put it away and forgotten about it. Alberto named the fly. It is a general minnow pattern but I post it here because one never knows when a pattern that fails in one situation will succeed in another:
Thread: White 6/0
Hook: Tiemco #8 2xl
Tail: white marabou (length of body) flanked by 1 or 2 strands of pearl flashabou on each side.
Thread: 6/0 white
Body: pearl/white Ice dub or minnow body dubbing
Throat: red dubbing
Bead: 4mm to 4.6mm silver
Eyes: painted yellow with black pupil
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Topic: Ralph's Pacific Minnow (shout out to Coastangler) (Read 1442 times)