I will keep it short and sweet this month as I am staring at a remarkably large pile of flies to tie before spring, but hey what else is new right? If you know me well, you know that tinkering and playing around with something different in flies is always a thing I enjoy. This past season I found myself looking for a finesse fly on the smaller side that could be loosely representative of some smaller bait for a variety of species that I enjoy fishing for.
Streamlined, thin, with a vertical silhouette rather than a broad profiled water pushing fly. I knew at the onset it had to use craft fur as the primary material and it needed to be a bit less flashy as that was sort of the goal. Borrowing from some ideas of others, and well making it a bit different the Blade Runner was the end product.
I fish this fly mostly on an intermediate line, but you most certainly can fish it on an integrated sink or even a floating line if you’d like. For a smaller bait, it swims nicely, can be retrieved in ways that can make its swimming action erratic, and on the pause she comes alive due to the craft fur based recipe. So grab a beverage, nestle up to your vise and give this one a shot, you won’t be disappointed.