2012 Southeast Minnesota Trout Swap

Red Spinach
[variant on John Montana’s Wilted Spinach]

Red baitfishing hook #14
Here using 8/0 brown thread
Tie in two loops of crystal flash for trailing shuck
Consider tying the loops up tight under the thorax to leave the red hook exposed
Thorax of any sort of ice dubbing
Soft hackle of dyed Hungarian partridge
Build up a thread head

Fish downstream to risers
Don’t keep the line really tight
[this prevents the fly from racing in the current]
[this also, some would say, results in better hookup rate]
Wait for jarring takes
Let trout set the hook

Ran out of head cement; sorry about that one.  Thanks to local coordinator and participants; good swap to keep going here in SE MN.