Description
Bright Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patch
Bright Purple Grizzly is vivid purple with black bars. It takes the classic steelhead color and adds texture. The bars break up the outline just enough to look alive instead of painted.
Bright Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou gives you barred purple fibers for spey collars, jig skirts and leech tails. Bass anglers know purple, too. Purple jigs and worms have caught bass for a long time.
Steelhead, salmon, smallmouth, largemouth and trout.
Recipe 1: Bright Purple Grizzly Chickabou Purple Peril Spey
- Hook: Spey or salmon hook, #2–#6
- Thread: Black 8/0
- Tail: Purple hackle fibers
- Body: Purple floss or dubbing, ribbed with oval silver tinsel
- Hackle: Bright Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, 2–3 turns as a collar
- Wing: Dark squirrel tail or bucktail, low
Tying: A soft-hackled take on the classic Purple Peril. The chickabou collar gives it far more movement at a slow swing than a stiff hackle.
How to fish: On a floating line or light tip in summer and fall, swing it across runs and through tailouts. Mend to slow it down. When a steelhead grabs, wait for the line to come tight before you lift.
Recipe 2: Bright Purple Grizzly Chickabou Smallmouth Jig
- Hook: Jig hook, #4–#6
- Head: Black tungsten slotted bead, 3.8 mm
- Thread: Black 6/0
- Tail: Bright Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, full plume
- Body: Purple Ice Dub
- Legs: Purple or black rubber legs, 2 per side
- Collar: One turn of purple grizzly chickabou
Tying: Tie the tail full. The jig hook makes the fly ride point-up so it won’t snag in rocks.
How to fish: In rocky smallmouth rivers, cast upstream, let it hit bottom, then hop it along with short lifts of the rod tip. Smallmouth often eat as the jig falls after a hop. Keep slack out of the line.
Recipe 3: Bright Purple Grizzly Chickabou Sugar Momma
The Sugar Momma is Kisha Atkin’s jigged streamer, sold by Saltwater on Fly in white, tan, black and olive. This version builds on the black one: a purple body with a barred purple collar, for steelhead and for bass in stained water.
- Hook: Partridge Ideal jig hook, #8 (#6 for steelhead and bass)
- Bead: 3/16″ (4.6 mm) slotted tungsten, black or copper
- Thread: Black Semperfli Nano Silk, 50-denier
- Flash: Purple or black-pearl Angel Hair or Ice Wing
- Wing: Two black hen saddle feathers
- Spreader: Natures Spirit Predator Dub, purple or black
- Hackle: Purple-dyed mallard flank, or natural for more contrast
- Collar: Bright Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, spun in a dubbing loop
Tying:
- Slide the bead on, set the hook in the vise, and lay a thread base from behind the bead back to above the hook point.
- One eye-length behind the bead, tie in a thin bundle of flash by its middle. Fold the front half back, wrap back over it, and trim the ends ragged at 2 to 2.5 inches.
- Match two Grizzly Bright Purple Marabou saddles by their tips, size them to about 2 inches, and tie one flat against each side, curves facing in.
- Bring the thread forward. Comb a pinch of Laser Dub into a flat bundle, center it on top of the shank, take two loose turns, then cinch it so it wraps around the shank.
- Fold the front fibers back, add a small thread dam, and brush the spreader even.
- Tie in a mallard flank feather by its tip and take three or four turns up toward the bead. Tie off and trim.
- Build a 4-inch dubbing loop behind the bead. Fold one or two Bright Purple Grizzly chickabou plumes in a Magic Tool or feather prepper, clip the fibers, cut off the stems, and lay them in the loop. Spin it into a brush.
- Wrap the brush tight to the bead, tie off, whip-finish, and brush the fibers up and back.
How to fish: For steelhead, swing it on a sink-tip and let it hang in the current at the end of the swing before you strip it in. For bass, cast to rocks and wood, let it hit bottom, and hop it back. The jig hook rides point-up, so it won’t snag much. The purple barring makes a strong outline in low light and dirty water.
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