Fly Tying Tutorial: Fish-Skull Micro Spey

Tying with Senyo's Micro Shank allows you to tie this spey fly pattern in sizes more suited for trout and panfish while still using the swing techniques used for targeting salmon and steelhead.

Senyo's Micro Shank was co-designed by Greg Senyo, a prominent steelhead and salmon expert who has designed many leading fly tying materials.

Senyo’s Micro Shank is a smaller, lighter version of the popular Senyo’s Articulated Shank, and is a simple, versatile solution for tying a variety of small, articulated flies such as petite trout wet flies, low-water steelhead flies, sparse streamer designs, and small traditional salmon flies. The wire diameter is small enough to directly attach to hooks as small as size #10.

The ultralight, slim, and strong shank also offers a new option for tying surface flies and brings a high degree of realistic, articulated movement to small fly design.

Fly Recipe:
- Dubbing Bump: Senyo's Laser Dub
- Rib: Holographic Flashabou
- Underbody: Senyo's Laser Dub
- Collar: EP Tarantula Brush
- Collar: Rooster Saddle
- Head: Loon Hard Head, black

[mikemurray]

Very nice fly! What kind of wire? Won’t it helicopter off after some use?

[cevisuals]

Wondering what color combinations would work for specifically targeting trout? I'm guessing an Olive/Chartreuse combo and/or Brown/Copper/Orange? Any other color combo's for targeting trout - specifically dark coloration?

[mikemcguire]

I commend the brevity of this presentation--some guys would take 2 or 3 times as long to demo a pattern like that. I usually time out before they get to the end. I take issue with calling closely wound wraps "palmering." That normally means spaced out wraps.

[cevisuals]

What's the reasoning for having the trailing hook pointing up vs pointing down?