Coachman Brown Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch

Coachman Brown Grizzly Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patch

Coachman Brown Grizzly is brown with stripes — the exact pattern of a mottled sculpin, a blue crab’s legs, and a brown trout fry. It’s the most natural-looking patch in the whole lineup.

Coachman Brown Grizzly Ewing Chickabou gives you barred brown fibers for sculpin fins, crab legs, craw claws and streamer tails. In clear water, where fish inspect before they eat, the barring tells them it’s real.

Brown trout, smallmouth, redfish, black drum, carp and permit.

Recipe 1: Coachman Brown Grizzly Chickabou Sculpin Helmet

• Hook: Articulated shank (25–35 mm) with a #2 trailer hook
• Head: Sculpin helmet, medium, brown
• Thread: Brown 140-denier
• Tail (rear hook): Coachman Brown Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, full plume
• Body: Brown and tan Ice Dub, brushed out
• Fins: Two Coachman Brown Grizzly chickabou tufts at the front, splayed out
• Collar: Brown-dyed rabbit strip or more chickabou

Tying:

Tie the trailer hook on with 30-lb wire or Intruder line. Build the fly in two parts: the chickabou tail on the rear hook, the fins and helmet on the front shank.

How to fish:

Use a 200–250 grain sink-tip. Cast to the bank, let it sink for 3–5 seconds, then strip it back with short, hard jerks. Big browns hit sculpins as they dart between rocks. Fish it hardest at dawn and on cloudy days.

Recipe 2: Coachman Brown Grizzly Chickabou Redfish Crab

• Hook: Saltwater #2–#4
• Eyes: Medium lead dumbbell, on top of the shank
• Thread: Tan 6/0
• Claws: Two small Coachman Brown Grizzly Ewing Chickabou tufts
• Legs: 4 brown-barred rubber legs
• Body: Tan and brown yarn tied crosswise, combed out and trimmed into a round crab shape
• Weedguard: 20-lb mono

Tying:

Tie the yarn in short crosswise sections, comb it out, and trim it into a disc. The chickabou claws should flare out in front of the yarn body.

How to fish:

In shallow marsh ponds and oyster flats, put it 2 feet in front of a tailing redfish and let it sink. When the red is close, give it one 3-inch strip to puff mud. Most fish eat right there. Strip-set.