This fly is a chum salmon fry. Starting in spring the fry are coming out of the streams on their way to the ocean. Sea-run cutthroat and sometimes brown trout feed on these fry in the river, and later on in the estuaries and off the beaches. The little fish grow as the season progresses so tie some in each size.

Little Stone’s Chum Baby    

Hook - 6 - 10 - Mustad S71SZ (34007) Thread - Black or Brown 3/0 or 6/0 Bead - optional - Gold bead sized to fit hook Tail / Wing - Pearl Crystal Flash topped with Gray Squirrel Tail or Buck Tail Body - If stainless hook is used just the bare hook is fine or the body can be wrapped with silver Tinsel or Flashabou Thorax - 4-5 strands of peacock herl

-  developed by Bob Triggs a Western Washington guide.

1:  Put the bead on and start the thread at the top 1/8 of the hook just in behind the bead 2:  This is the time to tie in the silver tinsel if using, wrapping the thread to the bend of the hook and then to just behind the bead head.  Be sure that you keep the thread base very even so that the tinsel lays flat.  Wrap the tinsel forward and tie it off just behind the bead head.  5:  Wrap the thread back over the tinsel about a 1/8 of the shank length and tie in 4 to 6 stands of crystal flash.  The crystal flash should be about 1 1/2 to 2 shank lengths long. 6:  Tie the squirrel or buck tail in right over the top of the crystal flash.  I prefer the squirrel tail, because of the white tips of the hair, which resembles the tail of a chum fry. 7:  Tie in 4 - 6 stands of peacock herl and wrap them forward forming a thorax. 8:  Whip finish, head cement and catch fish.