Mickey Finn
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Mickey Finn
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"
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Re: Mickey Finn
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
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
Fish when you can, not when you should! Anything short of this is just a disaster.
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Re: Mickey Finn
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.
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Re: Mickey Finn
Very productive when tied tandem and trolled in the spring.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.
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Re: Mickey Finn
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.
Purdy fly, though.
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