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T&A Rainbow


REAR HOOK: #4-6 3X short egg hook.
TAIL: Two white marabou plumes (palmered) with a top of olive marabou and two side stripes of pink marabou.
FRONT HOOK: #6-8 bass stinger hook.
CONNECTION: 17-pound American wire, looped through rear hook eye, lashed to front hook shank. Three red glass beads over the wire connection loop.
SKIRT: Rainbow holographic Flashabou tied as a tail on the front hook.
BODY: Two white marabou plumes (palmered) with a top of olive marabou and two side stripes of pink marabou.
HEAD: Olive (top) and white (bottom) wool stacked and trimmed to a thin profile.
EYES: 4 mm white and black doll eyes.
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T&A Rainbow This is one of the few flies I carry in only one color. This fly came about after Bob Linsenman and I discovered that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was planting tens of thousands of juvenile rainbows in Michigan’s upper Au Sable. The large, wild fish had lockjaw for weeks after these plantings, and this was the code cracker. I fished this fly in virtually every river in the West with great success. It is a great fly for bull trout, and in saltwater makes a fine shad and bunker imitation for catching striped bass.
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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