Seven and Eight Inch Streamers

I recently completed an order of ten LARGE saltwater streamer patterns for a customer to use for marlin and giant trevally fly fishing. These new-to-me BEAST Flyes are not quick to tie and challenged my fly tying abilities. It’s the first fly I’ve ever tied in hand during my 55 year fly tying journey. I thought you might enjoy seeing these colorful seven and eight inch saltwater streamers.

I wrote about My Journey Tying a BEAST Fleye recently. These flies were the creation by Bob Popovics, a saltwater fly tying guru from New Jersey. Each one took me a minimum of 30 minutes to tie.

These seven and eight inch streamers are tied on 8/0 hooks, a first for me! After finishing the order, I tied a size 22 Sparkle Dun Baetis. We’ve seen these recently on my home waters.

I tied the streamers with a little variation between each fly pattern, experimenting with color and number of bucktail fibers in each bunch.

I was creative in the colors I chose and used images of other flies my customer had used in previous trips to help with color selection.

He leaves on his trip later this month and I can’t wait to see images of one of these flies in the mouth of a large fish!

I plan to tie a few seven and eight inch streamer patterns for Bull Trout in the near future and see what happens.

Enjoy… go fish!