Any one ever fish for steel with the Sex Dungeon--Kelly Galloup streamer?

That's gotta be the best thread title ever for the fly tying forum.

I have had luck with something similar to the sex dungeon and Galloup's articulated butt monkey works good too. They are pretty simple patterns if you already tie articlulated flies. I figured out how to make them just by looking at a big picture of one. Not sure if I did it right, but that's why I said something similar. Articlulated bunny leeches, woolly buggers and other streamers made bigger and articulated work good for me. If you google intruder flies you can find some nice step by step instructions and videos. Hope this helps.

intruders... tie em sparse and let them have room to move

SD and ZC are great sculpin patterns

ORIGINAL: Cold

SD looks like a woolly bugger trying to mate with a marabou muddler, with a few streamer hackles and rubber legs thrown in for good measure. If I could spin deer hair, I'd try that one out just for the heck of it.

The variation of it that I tie uses a wool head, like a wool head sculpin. It has produced for several different species. Pretty good fly if you like to throw bigger stuff.

Methinks he's trying a little too hard to be an edgy fly fisherman with those names, but to each his own, I guess. The flies do look pretty cool.

D-Nymph...in that first one, did you clip the back of that ostrich herl? I've heard people say that's a no-no (clipping tails), but I've done it to buggers that had the marabou wrapping around the hook, and never seemed to turn off the fish. Any particular reason why you did that (if that is indeed what you did)?

Paco,

Articulated streamers are the only type of streamers I fish in Erie. I tie them 4"-6" long, and mainly in white. Black, Olive, and Yellow have all caught fish, but White is 10:1 against the others. You really need to strip these to get the full effect of the fly. Here is the pic of the fly I use. 3 segments, 2 single hooks.



If you want to swing streamer type flies, Wooly buggers and small TRADITIONAL spey patterns in olive and drab yellow colors work good.

i tie one like the white one above but with about 1 inch of brown bucktail, then 3 inches of bright green marabou, always gets some of the hardest strikes and biggest fish.  won't get looks from every fish but ones that go after it go full on.  again on a jighead. 

Thanks for noticing and pointing out the little inadequecies of my tie.
 
That one's going in the trash can when I get home.
 

 

ORIGINAL: Cold

Dont pitch it! Send it to me!

 
I can't do that to you.
 
That thing does not deserve to see water again. 
 
No wonder it failed me last time out.
 
 

Paco,

He ties another using rabbit strips and other stuff called an "articulated butt monkey". It's a pretty easy tie. It's caught some nice bass for me so far this year. Haven't tried it for steel yet but I will this year.

Good looking ties!
 
KJH I wanna see of ur works of art
 
Reminds me I need to whip up some Olive buggers/Sculpins

Stripping large articulated streamers for steelhead never seems "right", but it is a great change from hooking fish after fish on eggs. The biggest advantage I have found is that 90% of the fish you catch are full of pi$$ and vinegar. They are the most aggressive and hardest fighting fish out of each school/pod.

I always try to leave a collar on any spun deer hair pattern, assuming it is the collar you are talking about since the head was trimmed with a razor. Reasoning: It gives the fly a tapered look, flows nicely with the shape, covers up any gaps in materials, and helps push a little water because of the profile.


Mike

The Dungeon is a tandem hook streamer, the front is 1 size larger than the stinger hook out back. Thats the way the pattern is tyied. It's not a intruder based pattern.

I just finished my first "Dungeon", well here it is.

It's just shy of 4 inches long & the front portion of the fly got a little bigger than what I was lookin for but I think it turned out o.k. for the maiden voyage...
All I need is some hungery bass and steelhead to test 'em on