Thread: Punisher's "Float & Fly" variation?

Originally Posted by crappiepappy

an imitation of a Brook Silverside minnow. That's those little pencil shaped minnows you see skipping across the water, and leaping about along the shoreline. Light green across the back and a white lateral line, with a see-thru belly.

Well, there are pencil poppers to imitate surface minnows but I like to use what I call an MCF (Minnow Crease Fly). Just a simple thin foam bodied fly like a pencil popper but cheaper and easier to tie. Not as messy as the first ones after I got used to tying enough of them.



Minnow Crease Fly

Hook: #6-#4 Aberdeen
Tail: Shag (long) craft fur
Overbody: Iridescent (pearl) gift wrap paper
Body: 2mm foam sheet body pattern
Highlights: Permanent magic marker
Eyes: 4mm black plastic half-rounds
Overcoat: Either clear Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails or clear Epoxy

The overbody is superglued (I use Loctite Superglue in the Easy Brush bottle) to the highlighted foam body pattern. The finished foam body pattern is folded in half (creased) lengthwise, superglued, and clamped to the hook shank using bulldog style paper clips until dry. The eyes are then superglued in place and finally the overcoat.

A similar narrow body Crease Fly pattern link below.
Crease Fly

Here is the foam pattern with dimensions. Please excuse the messy writing as I jotted it down quickly and never updated to clean it up. Also please disregard the Mustad hook number designation. Do not use the Mustad. Use the Aberdeen light wire and position the foam body so that most of the foam body is above the hook shank if possible.