Minipi Camps Web Log

I would like to let everyone know of a new fly I developed last year at Minipi.  I used it during the last part of last season when we were fishing the brooks and rivers chasing the brookies that were heading up to spawn.  I called it the “Dog Collar” because it has a sort of collar on the fly and it is as effective as an actual dog collar for snaring big brook trout.  When Jeff ‘Bear’ Andrews was at Minpi last year we affectionately referred to using the pattern as ‘walking the dog’.  Ask Bear how effective the fly was and he will tell you that it worked pretty well. He landed his biggest fish of the trip, a 7 pounder on it at Ten Pound Brook.
The fly has a clippped deer head with the back half of the head sticking up over the rest …

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