Light Pink Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch

Light Pink Grizzly Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patch

Light Pink Grizzly is a soft shell-pink with fine bars. It’s the color of a flats shrimp with a pink tint, and of a scud in a rich tailwater. It’s subtle enough for spooky fish and pink enough to get noticed.

Light Pink Grizzly Ewing Chickabou gives you pale, barred fibers for bonefish flies, shrimp tails and scud legs. Pink is a classic bonefish color, and the barring makes it look real up close.

Bonefish, permit, redfish, tailwater trout and carp.

Recipe 1: Light Pink Grizzly Chickabou Bonefish Puff

• Hook: Saltwater #4–#6
• Eyes: Small bead-chain eyes, tied on top
• Thread: Pink 6/0
• Tail: Light Pink Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, short tuft, plus 2 strands pearl flash
• Body: Pink or pearl chenille, wrapped around the eyes to form a “puff” head
• Wing: A few fibers of light pink grizzly chickabou over the top

Tying: The “puff” is the chenille wrapped around and behind the eyes. It makes the fly land softly. The chickabou tail and wing give it life.

How to fish: On shallow, calm flats where bonefish spook easily, cast 5–6 feet in front of the fish. The puff lands quietly. Let it sink, then strip slowly. If the fish tips down on it, keep stripping slowly until you feel it, then strip-set.

Recipe 2: Light Pink Grizzly Chickabou Tailwater Scud

• Hook: Curved scud hook, #14–#18
• Weight: A few wraps of lead-free wire
• Thread: Pink 8/0
• Tail and antennae: Light Pink Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, short fibers
• Body: Pink-orange scud dubbing, picked out underneath for legs
• Back: Clear Scud Back, ribbed with fine mono

Tying: Scuds are curled. Keep the body slim and the back tight. A few chickabou fibers at the front and back add antennae and tail.

How to fish: In tailwaters below dams, dead-drift it under an indicator near the bottom. Pink and orange scuds are common after high-flow releases. Use a light tippet and set on any hesitation.