Saltwater - Needle Fish Pattern

**Rick Baerg** · April 21st, 2010, 10:10 AM

Anyone into doing a needle fish fly swap?

1. RickB
2. SalaR
3. Islander
4. tbar24
5. kenj13
6. rmpearson12

**SalaR** · April 21st, 2010, 10:40 AM

Yes...love those Needle fish...some great new fly tying products out there that make Needle fish patterns sweet!

**Islander** · April 21st, 2010, 07:41 PM

I've thought about this a fair bit, and been scratching the back of mind for a larger saltwater issue to troll with. Got my curiosity up that's for sure. I once saw in Alaska (and wish I bought some) super long & thin gummy minnow needle fish if I could have switched them to a tube I would have paid mint for them. They looked PERFECT!

**tbar24** · April 21st, 2010, 07:54 PM

I would definetly be in for this, i have one patterns in mind specifically i think that'd be good to put in

**kenj13** · April 22nd, 2010, 02:20 PM

I'd like to give this a try. Please count me in.

**Rick Baerg** · April 22nd, 2010, 04:31 PM

Off to a good start, five and counting.

**Islander** · April 24th, 2010, 05:12 PM

Well I had the day off and it was raining so I sat down at the bench and gave it whirl. After several not so successful attempts of my own creation I finally found a pattern I liked and could tie. It's a flatwing needlefish pattern variant that the guys over in Washington make.
The basic recipe I used is white synthetic bucktail followed by pink, green, purple krystal flash followed by some fire orange and blue mirror flash. After that I top it with an olive grizzle saddle hackle laid flat, followed by 3 peacock hurl topped with black synthetic bucktail. The head has some mirror flash wrapped around the olive thread and then after the eyes the whole thing is epoxied. All on a saltwater mustad #4.
Here it is:

Anybody else in? Haven't heard much on this one in awhile.

**Rick Baerg** · June 3rd, 2010, 10:27 AM

Nice pattern islander!! Anyone else in?? I will give this till the end of this weekend for others to join and then we will set the dates and cap it off! Cheers.

**rmpearson12** · June 3rd, 2010, 12:33 PM

Hey Rick I am back in the swing of things and would like to give this one a go.

Ross

**Rick Baerg** · June 3rd, 2010, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by RickB

Nice pattern islander!! Anyone else in?? I will give this till the end of this weekend for others to join and then we will set the dates and cap it off! Cheers.

Then there were six!

Originally Posted by rmpearson12

Hey Rick I am back in the swing of things and would like to give this one a go.

Ross

Awesome Ross, this is going to be a great swap and there will be some great patterns.