{{+1}}Chatto’s minnow – brown bomber inspired{{-1}}
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Hard body lures in brown bomber colour have earned a place as a popular lure colour combination for barramundi in estuary and coastal mangrove edged water. The same colour scheme is a great colour combination for flies used to target barra along the edge of mangroves.
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.
Materials
Hook | Dumbbell eye thread | Dumbbell eyes | Thread | Beard | Belly | Back |
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Mustard 34007 Stainless steel #1 to #4/0 | Uni big fly thread. | Dumbbell eyes - green with black pupil | Veevus Denier 100 | SF Flash Blend - UV orange | SF Flash Blend - bronze back | SF Flash Blend - bleeding black |
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.
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Author: StephenChatterton