Go Go hamster??!!

[sculpin_crusader]

Well, I've been messing around making sculpin patterns now that I've at last got OE's streamer fishing. Last year I tied quite a few tube flies on the variation of Steve Thorntons Baptiser but with a spun deer hair head to get the broad head profile, unfortunately as we know deer hair floats! So with this I normally put a size AAA or BB shot weight, this does create a nice undulating swimming pattern but it is a nightmare to cast on a 8' 6" 4# rod.

Not sure why I've never used sculpin wool before, so this winter with inspiration from OE's waggy tail sculpin and especially with the success I had with scuplin patterns last year I had a go with it. Ive had good results but whilst I was messing around trying to get a light underside with some barring on the top I discovered i likeness to the Go Go hamster.

So I thought what the hell, add some eyes, ears and a tail!!

Da Daahh!!!



So now my mission is to catch something on this in 2010.
And he's one sculpin, but they'll get better and I'll post the final result.

[oakham orange]

Very good indeed

[mayflyjunky]

Very well done

It would be a good fly to fish to rising fish during a fall of hamsters

[sweenytodd]

That is brill !! made me laugh

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Originally Posted by mayflyjunky

Very well done

It would be a good fly to fish to rising fish during a fall of hamsters

Yeah you have a point , shame it was such a bad year this last season for hamsters , we hardly had a hatch atall did we .....

[john_mac]

Brilliant Sculpins very nice aswell

[sculpin_crusader]

You will laugh more when sometime next year I'll bring this thread back with with a picture of a fish with this hanging out of its gob. Most likely a pike.

[silversedge]

Excellent,now lets see a guinea pig!

[sculpin_crusader]

I tied this on a 1/0 aberdeen, for a guinea pig should I go 6/0?

[Anjinsan]

That is fantastic, I just showed this to my little girl and she loved it.

Please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top. If you have time could you do a step by step. I would love to attempt this with my girl helping.

Sean

[sculpin_crusader]

It's the same as using deer hair except that you don't spin the wool, make sure the thread is anchored, I use Moser powersilk 5/0 and superglue the thread as well as every new bunch of wool. Trim to shape. It just happened that this mess around happened to look like a hamster hence why I decided to finish it off properly.