Easy Chum Fry Variant Fly Tying Tutorial

The Easy Chum Fry Variant imitates a young chum salmon fry, a key food source for cutthroat trout in early spring. When fry are in the water, cutthroat feed hard and won’t pass this fly up. It’s fast to tie, uses simple materials, and has a slim profile with great movement.

We will typically look for actively feeding fish and cast this fly in the vicinity, let it sink slightly and start stripping. Chum fry quite often get pushed up to the surface by feeding fish and they will strike, slashing at them, showing themselves on the surface of the water, making your target a dead give away.

This can be fished on a full floating line fly line or an intermediate sink tip. Short strips to imitate a fleeing fish or slightly longer slower strips to imitate them meandering along can both be effective.

Easy Chum Fry Variant Fly Recipe

Hook: Ahrex Size 8 NS122 Light Stinger Hook
Thread: UTC White 140D Ultra Thread
Under Body: Wapsi .010 Lead Wire
Wing: Hareline Chum Fry Spawn Simi Seal Dubbing
Belly: Spirit River Silver Minnow UV2 Seal-X Ice Dubbing
Eyes: Wapsi Silver 5/32” Hologram Eyes

Easy Chum Fry Variant Fly Tying Video

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email info@sea-run.com, by phone at 604-931-5044 or stop by Sea-Run Fly & Tackle at #110-1140, Austin Avenue in Coquitlam BC.

Good luck on the water.

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