SLUMP BUSTER - Pine Squirrel Zonker Streamer - Great fly for river streamer fishing
Channel: McFly Angler
Date: 2017-02-17

Appropriately named the "slump buster" is really a buster of slumps.  This fly is so easy to tie, yet so effective!  You can tie up 10-20 in an hour, and is effective for so many species of fish.  Its tail moves wonderfully, the front body is wide almost like a sculpin, and its got enough weight to give some jig action.  You can catch bass, crappie, small pike, many species of saltwater fish, and mostly trout.  In fact, the last time I fished with this fly I caught a nice 24-25" wild brown trout on the Animas River, in Durango Colorado.  This is for sure one of my go to streamers for trout fishing.  Being so easy to tie, I always have a few of these in my box.  

Hook:  Umpqua U301 - size 10 - http://amzn.to/2oRVlCl
Thread: UTC ultra thread 70 - Brown/olive - http://www.jsflyfishing.com/wapsi-ultra-thread-70-denier
Weight:  4.8mm brass cone head - http://www.jsflyfishing.com/hareline-brass-cone-heads
Body: UTC sparkle braid - UV Fl. chartreuse - http://amzn.to/2ou2IxU
Tail and head: Pine squirrel strips: Sculpin olive. - http://www.jsflyfishing.com/wapsi-squirrel-strips-3-32

The vice I am using is an Anvil Atlas.  Its a full rotary vice, made solid like a tank.  And its very reasonably priced.  You can get it here if you want one.  http://amzn.to/2q4LaKa