Heifer Groomer REAR HOOK: #4-6, 3XL streamer hook. REAR BODY: Three yellow marabou plumes (palmered) with an overwing of mallard flank feather. FRONT HOOK: #2-4 3XL streamer hook. Use one size larger than the rear hook. CONNECTION: 17-pound American wire, looped through rear hook eye, lashed to front hook shank. Four red glass beads over the wire connection loop. SKIRT: Red Flashabou (10 strands) tied as a tail on the front hook extending to the eye of the rear hook. FRONT BODY: Three or four plumes of yellow marabou--each palmered in succession from the rear toward the front on the hook with an overwing of mallard flank feather. COLLAR: Olive deer hair, spun and flared, trimmed flat on the bottom. HEAD: Olive deer hair, spun and trimmed round on top, flat on the bottom.

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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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