Golden Olive Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch

Golden Olive Grizzly Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patch

Golden Olive Grizzly is the color of a golden stonefly nymph and the flank of a yellow perch. Warm gold-olive base, dark natural bars. It’s one of those patches that looks better on the hook than in the bag.

Golden Olive Grizzly Ewing Chickabou gives you barred fibers for stonefly legs and tails, perch and baby-bass streamers, and sculpin fins. The barring adds the leg segments and body bands that make a fly look real on a slow drift.

Trout, pike, walleye, smallmouth and largemouth.

Recipe 1: Golden Olive Grizzly Chickabou Golden Stone

• Hook: 3XL curved nymph, #6–#10
• Bead: Gold tungsten, plus 10 wraps lead-free wire
• Thread: Gold or tan 6/0
• Tails: Two goose biots, amber
• Abdomen: Golden stone dubbing, ribbed with brown Stretch Tubing
• Legs: Golden Olive Grizzly Ewing Chickabou fibers tied at the thorax, swept back
• Wing case: Mottled Thin Skin, two sections

Tying:

Tie the chickabou legs in as a small clump on each side under the wing case. They move in the current like stonefly legs grabbing for rocks — something rubber legs don’t do at a dead drift.

How to fish:

In Montana freestones from late June through July, dead-drift it under an indicator through pocket water and riffle drop-offs. Set the depth so the fly ticks bottom every few seconds. Pair it with a smaller dropper nymph.

Recipe 2: Golden Olive Grizzly Chickabou Perch Streamer

• Hook: Streamer or saltwater, #1–2/0
• Thread: Olive 140-denier
• Tail: Golden Olive Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, two plumes
• Body: Yellow-olive Ice Dub, brushed out
• Collar: Orange chickabou or saddle, 2 turns (the perch’s orange fins)
• Head: Olive deer hair or wool, with 3D eyes
• Marker: Dark olive vertical bars on the body

Tying:

The Golden Olive Grizzly tail already has bars. Add three or four marker bars to the body to match. The orange collar matches the perch’s pelvic fins.

How to fish:

Perch run along weed edges. Use an intermediate or sink-tip line, strip it fast along the weedline, then stop it dead. Pike and big smallmouth often strike right on the stop.