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BOX FOUR
In this small box, I carry four streamer patterns, all made from fur and marabou, which look alive in the water. In all my streamers, I like natural colors such as olive, rust, black, tan, and cream. The Slump Buster (#4-10) is tied entirely with pine-squirrel Zonker strips and has a tungsten or brass cone. This is a perfect baitfish silhouette when stripped, and deadly when allowed to dive behind rocks and into drop-offs. Slump Busters without cones are nice trailers behind the conehead Slump Buster or in shallow water.

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The Bouface (#4-10) is tied with a rabbit or pine-squirrel Zonker strip with minimal flash and marabou collar. The gold bead gives it a slow dive rate. It is effective dead-drifted in rivers or fished in lakes. Some in New Zealand dead-drift this fly under an indicator with good results.

The Meat Whistle (#4-8) is tied on a jig hook so that it rides hook point up. This fly is designed to be fished on the bottom and hopped along like a crayfish. Fish are used to seeing flies stripped through the water column but not hopped along the bottom. You can strip or dead-drift it as well. Many rivers have good populations of crayfish; however, they are often nocturnal or hidden under rocks so many fisherman are not aware of them. My largest river fish in 2004 was caught on a Meat Whistle-a rainbow just under 10 pounds.