Editors note: Capt. Nat Moody of First Light Anglers has had a lot of success fishing the stuff stripers love to eat. One of those items is the lobster. According to Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries striper research data, lobster can account for as much as 18% of the stripers diet. Man, those fish know how to eat!

I find this pattern especially effective in the evening, especially on an incoming tide over boulders. The strip is slow twitches with a long (30 second plus) pause, with the occassional fleesin set of long fast stripes and pause again. The take is often a very subtle bump and close contact with the fly at all times is essential.

Tying Sequence

Step One

Begin by attaching eyes about one inch back from the hook eye.

Step Two

Wrap thread dow the shank to the hook bend.

Step Three

Tie in a patch of brown rabbit fur followed by a few turns of root beer estaz

 

Step Four

Attach claws made from trimmed pheasant feathers, preferably those mottled ones with the stiff stems from the back and sides of the bird.

Step Five

Tie in a rust colored crosscut rabbit strip and add the rubber legs before wrapping the strip between and behind them.

Step Six

Add burnt eighty pound monofilament eyes and peacock herl or black wire leader material for antennae.

Step Seven

The carapace is then covered with irridescent pheasant mixed dubbing. i like red, orange brown and olive, and as coarse a dubbing as you can find. The pheasant feathers should overlap each other and vace toward the hook point.

Step Eight

The tail is more pheasant facing back.

Step Nine

The dubbing can be teased out liberrally to gibe the tail bulk.

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