Hot Pink Scott Biron Signature Series

Hot Pink Scott Biron Signature Series

Pink is a trigger color. It doesn’t imitate much, but it gets eaten — by coho in the salt, steelhead in winter flows, landlocked salmon at ice-out and seatrout over grass flats. Hot Pink Scott Biron Signature Series hackle gives you that color on a long, straight, streamlined saddle built to hold a wing or tail profile.

The dye is deep and even down the feather, so a pair of saddles matches side to side. That matters on a Rangeley streamer, where a mismatched wing shows the second it hits the water. It matters on a Seaducer too, where the palmered body has to look uniform from hook eye to tail.

Use the long feathers for streamer wings and splayed tails. Use the short feathers palmered as bodies and collars.

Recipe 1: Hot Pink Smelt (Rangeley style)

• Hook: 6X–8X long streamer, #4–#8
• Thread: Fluorescent red 8/0
• Tag: Flat silver tinsel
• Body: Flat silver tinsel
• Rib: Oval silver tinsel, small
• Belly: Sparse white bucktail, then a few strands of pink bucktail over it
• Throat: White hen fibers
• Wing: 2 Hot Pink Biron saddles flanked by 1 white saddle each side
• Shoulder: Silver pheasant or barred teal, one-third wing length
• Head: Fluorescent red with a black band

Tying note: This is our shop pattern. White outside the pink softens the flash in clear water. In stained water, drop the white and run 4 pink saddles.

Recipe 2: Hot Pink & White Seaducer (saltwater)

• Hook: Saltwater stainless, #2–2/0
• Thread: Pink or white flat-waxed 210D
• Tail: 4 Hot Pink Biron saddles splayed outward, 4 strands pearl flash between
• Body: 3–4 white saddle hackles palmered forward, then 2 Hot Pink saddles palmered over the front third
• Weedguard: 20 lb mono loop (optional)
• Eyes: Bead chain, small, if you want it to ride hook-up

Tying note: Strip the fluff from the hackle base before palmering. Tight wraps, fibers swept back. A good Seaducer pushes water like a baitfish twice its size.

How to fish Hot Pink

Pacific salmon in the salt: Coho in Puget Sound and along the BC and Alaska coast hit pink on the surface and just under. Fish the smelt pattern on a floating or clear intermediate line and strip fast. Coho want speed.

Steelhead and winter trout: Swing the streamer on a sink tip, slow and deep, through tailouts. Pink shows up in off-color water when natural colors disappear.

Inshore saltwater: Throw the Seaducer to snook along mangroves and dock lights and to seatrout over grass. Cast, let it sink a count of three, then strip short with long pauses. The palmered hackle breathes on the pause, and that’s when they eat.