Cut Lips

Cut Lips

Hook - Gaelic Supreme Mike Martinek Rangeley Streamer 6xl 

Thread - White under floss; black head

Tail - Blue dun hackle 

Body - Lavender silk 

Rib - Silver flat tinsel 

Throat - Blue dun hackle fibers 

Wing - 2 olive hackles flanked by dun hackles

Eye - Jungle cock

Originated by Lew Oatman

Author's Note

As much as it sounds like an unfortunate accident with a wayward back cast and an unsuspecting passerby, the Cut Lips streamer is named for one of the minnow species Mr. Oatman studied. His observations of the natural prey items of trout became the basis for a series of streamers he designed which included plump tapered bodies and colors that matched the natural minnows. The cut lips minnow is a dark colored fish and has a range that includes the renowned Battenkill in Vermont and New York state’s Ausable River. The streamer is most successful in the habitat of the minnow, that being rapid flows, white water and beneath waterfalls.

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