Mini Trout Slider
Cheech - December 2024
As many of you know, I LOVE fishing articulated sliders, and this is kind of a new size for this bug. It’s sized down just a little bit, but it still swims amazingly! Mix some up in whatever color you feel like!
One day in the fly shop I was playing show and tell with a customer, and I was showing him a box of sliders that I was going to take to Argentina. His comment was "Where are all the Cheech Leeches.." I really didn't have a good answer for him, because it's an awesome fly to fish, but I had to let him in on my secret that the gold Articulated Trout Slider is, and has been my best streamer since it came off my vise. Another reason I had chosen to go slider heavy is because I can tie them about twice as quickly as I can tie a Cheech Leech. Yes, with the deer hair head and everything. Even though I typically don't fish articulated flies much in lakes, the gold slider has found its way Kilo and a HOG onto my line quite a bit when fishing lakes. It's violent side to side action and undulating body make it impossible for a predator to resist.
The Complex Twist Bugger has been an absolute beast for us this year, and we have made a few changes to the pattern that we'll share here. I have been using a cone head (both brass and tungsten) and a better hook, and I have even switched out one of the strands of chenille for another color of schlappen (yes, two pieces of schlappen for one fly.
