Pink Intruder Sbs

[Guest bigbadbrent]

Hook: Any 4XL or longer hook, this one is like a 6X long salt water hook. Flat eyes or Salmon up eyes are better

Tail: Pink Lady Amherst, 2" Super High Quality Pink Ostrich, Fl. Pink Marabou on bottom Side, bump of Polar Chenille

Body: Polar chenille

Hackle: Pink Schlappen

"wing": Pink Lady Amherst, 4" Super High Quality Pink Ostrich, Fl. Pink Marabou on bottom Side, bump of Polar Chenille, pink mallard flank

 

Have fun kids

 

 

 

1. Attach 35lb Mono line (i use Slickshooter, i straighten it before hand so it's easier to deal with)

 

2. Make a bump of Polar Chenille to flare, and keep your materials flared when in the water (sorry bout the quality of this one)

 

3. Tie in your Lady Amherst. I use 2 per side, so 8 total.

Should look like this

 

4.Tie in your Ostrich, i use one for the top, left and right hand side. (will get to the bottom soon)

 

 

5. Flip your hook (or have the wonderful use of a rotary vise) and tie in a good quality clump of marabou. Either strip it off the side, or cut the tip out of the marabou and brush it back.

 

6. Enjoy dinner, beer, and Flight of the Conchords

 

 

7. Put your dinner down, and put a good number of strands of ostrich over the top of the marabou (i use normally 5 or 6, so it has lots and LOTS of motion in the water)

 

 

8. Tie in Lead Weight on TOP of the wire, it will make it flip over, also tie in Pink Polar Chenille and Tie in your Pink Schlappen

 

 

9. Tie it forward

 

[Guest bigbadbrent]

Then Schlappen

 

10. Add our friend amherst again, same as before.

 

 

A good view

 

 

 

11. Tie in your eyes (don't need to be included)

 

 

 

12. Tie in your 4" ostrich (or whatever size that makes it match, or go a bit past the other ones). I use 2 per side, except the bottom (will get to it again)

 

 

13. Tie in another good clump of marabou, high quality (of course!), then another bunch of ostrich (used 8 here)

 

 

14. Tie and palmer in a pink teal flank

 

 

15. Cut the rest of your hook off (as you may have noticed, i cut the point of the hook off at the start, just so i have more room to work with) and attach your Gamakatsu stinger.

 

 

16. Enjoy your mess

 

[Tako]

How the hell do you afford Keiths on a uni budget?

 

Azz kickin flies, someday I'll do something stupid like learn to tie one

[Guest bigbadbrent]

We had a huge party at our place like a week ago, and there was something like 35 full beers (as well as a 7/8 full thing of Jager, a bunch of tequila, rum, etc), so i'm working my way through them.

[luukesh]

Sweet!! Thanks man, do you have all those materials in stock at troutfitters?

[Guest bigbadbrent]

indeed we do

 

Most intruders will include Rhea as well, but i'm too broke to afford that stuff

 

 

I tie these in black and blue (blue amherst, and glow in the dark flashabou) for the bow

[Weedy1]

How much of that glue do you do in a week?

 

 

Nice tie Brent. They look like fun to tie as you've stated before. I bet they would make a killer pike fly.

[lonefisher]

awesome step by step Brent sounds like a intruder is to flytying what cricket is to sports you gotta stop for a meal and a drink in the middle.

So how much do you figure rhea adds to the fly? I honestly can't really say it appears to be a big difference but I have not fished em so I guess I dunno.

thanks for that bbb

[Guest bigbadbrent]

Well the ostrich i'm using in this fly is unbelievable quality, you could probably cut it off and only Todd Sharf would be able to tell you the difference. It's just what we happened to get in, so i hopped on it and grabbed 2 feathers.

 

However, once you start looking at the different colors, the ostrich is much thicker, and doesn't have the same movement in the water that rhea does. A lot of the luck of the draw weather or not you're going to get ostrich this good (think of it like this, most ostrich packs cost 2 bucks for 2 feathers. One of these feathers costs 6 bucks, and i had to pick through them all to get the pink one like this.)..

Probably one of the biggest differences is the way i tie in the ostrich, it needs to be more preened and put where you want it to, rather then Rhea where you can put it on like a hackle

 

My purple intruders (i'll put one up right away, just finished my best purple one yet) are tied only with ostrich as my rhea substitute. as well, and there is an obvious change in size of the ostrich to rhea, and when i fish my intruders that have Rhea on them, the movement is noticeable.

edit - purple intruder link

http://flyfishcalgary.com/board/index.php?showtopic=3576