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Trigger Flies

The Patterns
Here are a few of my favorite trigger flies:

Zoo Cougar


HOOK: #2-8 3XL streamer hook.
TAIL: Yellow marabou.
BODY: Pearlescent Diamond Braid.
UNDERWING: White calf tail. WING: Mallard flank feather. COLLAR: Deer hair, spun and flared, trimmed flat on the bottom.
HEAD: Deer hair, spun and trimmed round on top, flat on the bottom.

Zoo Cougar
This is one of my all-time favorite flies and has accounted for as many big fish in the last ten years as any fly I have ever fished.Try it in olive and white as well.


 
 


Kelly Galloup is the former owner of the Troutsman fly shop in Traverse City, Michigan, and now owns and operates the Slide Inn on Montana's Madison River with his wife, Penny.

This article originally appeared in the May 2007 issue of Fly Fisherman. For more fly-tying how-to from Kelly Galloup, see "Spinner Cripples."



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