Sucker Punch
The latest version of the Sucker Punch - The One True Carp Fly.
The new materials list is:
Rust thread.
Bead Chain Eyes – large (5/32″), black.
Centipede Legs – Montana Fly Company, Speckled Orange #801, size Mini #0.
Wapsi Life Cycle Peacock Dubbing, Crawdub Burnt Orange Dubbing.
Hot Orange Pheasant Rump.
Hooks are awfully personal, but, this one is tied on a #4 Mustad 3407 for bonefish*, skinny water reds, tailing black drum, and sheepshead. For carp I usually use a #6 Mustad 3366.
Other color combinations I’m fishing are a shrimp pink (Softshell Crawdub, natural pheasant rump, and Speckled Tan legs) and a Texas Hill Country olive (Pale Olive Crawdub, olive pheasant rump, and Speckled Olive legs).
* ah, there I done did it… yeah, ok, so I might fish for a “gamefish” now and then. But let’s be honest: bonefish were thought of as trash for years, redfish are considered “saltwater carp” by many and I still sort of think of black drum and sheepshead as alternate species… if such a thing exists.
These are sexy. It would be interesting to see the mid-2000s Punches, too, though, for noting contrast and fly development evolution.
Jeff… I have a large backlog of things I want to add to the blog, and a fly evolution is one of them. I once told a friend I could write a whole page on nothing but why each ingredient was in this fly, and he said “I’d love to see that.”
Of course I never got around to it! I plan to finally getting around to that kind of thing on here.
LHD:
Glad to see the new version, though I also love the old one. I’d be interested in having your describe why you made the changes you did from old to new.
Mick