Perch Fry

By Pat Burdick, submitted by Buzzy.

Description

I was fishing a large Columbia Basin lake using two chironomids beneath a quick release strike indicator, about half the time the indicator went down I'd have a rainbow trout, the other half of the time it was a perch. I had this "aha" moment wondering if the bigger trout might eat small perch or perch fry..... I came up with this rather un-perch looking fly

Materials

• Bead: purple plummeting tungsten
• Body: Simiseal olive dubbing
• Hackle: A turn of orange guinea and a couple turns of schlappen
• Tail: olive rabbit fur strip with black bars added with permanent marker

Hooks

• Daiichi 1710 size 4

Target species: Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Other (not listed), Rainbow Trout

Fly types: Streamer