{{+1}}Chatto’s minnow – guns & roses{{-1}}
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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.
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 - 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.
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