So to keep up with my promise of adding tying videos on a regular basis, this week we are revisiting an older pattern of mine. The Ice Pick streamers has been around for close to a decade now, and with it some minor tweeks have come to light due to some newer materials that make life a little easier. In this video you will see a few of those newer materials as well as how to construct what I consider to be the workhorse size of this fly.
This particular patterns came into fruition from inspiration from the Zonker streamer, which is one of the patterns that I personally fished a great deal in my younger years. The original Zonkers had some limitations to them; the first being the design didn't really translate "neatly" into an articulated variation so that never really took off. And secondly, I was never quite a fan of many of the commercially tied renditions as the rabbit strips were frequently cut too short to prevent fouling while fished, which also cut down on the amount of movement that could be incorporated into this pattern by keeping the tails long. In the end I borrowed a technique from the salt water world that helped solve that problem and the Ice Pick came to fruition. I also talk in detail on some of the other inspiration behind the pattern and ways to vary the head design. Grab your coffee or beverage of choice and give this one a watch.