Chatto’s minnow – guns & roses

 

Guns and Roses coloured of red over chartreuse are very popular hard body and soft plastic lure colours in Queensland and work equally well for flies particularly in low visibility water.

In the smaller sizes it's great for estuary and coastal species such as bream, flathead and whiting. Moving up to #2/0 sizes and you have smaller pelagics, drummer, fingermark and jacks covered and in the #3/0 and #4/0 sizes you ready to target big pelagics including tuna, queenies, mackerel and GT's.

MC-guns&roses

Materials

 

Hook Dumbbell eye thread Dumbbell eyes Thread Beard Belly Back
Mustard 34007 Stainless steel #1 to #4/0 Uni big fly thread. Dumbbell eyes - green with black pupil Veevus Denier 100 SF Flash Blend - bleeding red SF Flash Blend - bleeding red SF Flash Blend - chartreuse

 

The only colour combinations I tie this fly in are:
Qantas - red over off white
Natural - olive over white over shrimp
Guns & roses - red over chartreuse
Brown Bomber - black over bronze back over orange
Pink - pink over pink and/or white

 

Process for tying Chatto's Minnow.