Chatto’s minnow – brown bomber inspired

 

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.

MC-bomber

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 - 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.