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Mickey Finn

Hook - Mustad 9671, 9672 or equivalent
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Yellow, red and yellow bucktail or calf tail

Also known as "Red and Yellow Bucktail" and "Assassin"

Norm,
It's cleanly tied, well proportioned, and down right beautiful! Wow, you do great work! Mickey Finn's are dynamite on both large and smallmouth bass and crappie too in my part of the country!
Dougsden

I don't think there is a Maine fly box that doesn't have this fly in an assortment of sizes. Great fly for brook trout and landlock salmon. I doubt there are many this well dressed though.

Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:18 am I don't think there is a Maine fly box that doesn't have this fly in an assortment of sizes. Great fly for brook trout and landlock salmon. I doubt there are many this well dressed though.

Very productive when tied tandem and trolled in the spring.

I have never been able to catch a fish on a Mickey Finn. I just can’t seem to fish them with enough confidence, and tend to change over to something like an Emerald/Erie Shiner.

Purdy fly, though.