According to Gary Williams, local legend Jim Lucky who has fished and appreciated the McKenzie River for over 50 years gets credit for the Lucky Strike Pattern.
This is a great year-round searching fly. Tie it in a bunch of sizes from 10-16. Low-riding, high-vis trout fly with peacock and moose — it doesn’t get much fishier.
Lucky Strike
Hook: TMC 100 size 10-16
Thread: 8/0 Gray unithread
Tail: Moose body hair
Parachute: Deer or elk hair
Body: Peacock herl
Hackle: Cree or variant saddle
4 responses so far ↓
1 Rob R // Nov 16, 2009 at 10:26 pm
peacock herl = powerbait
have you no mercy?
2 b-christ // Nov 17, 2009 at 8:16 pm
No shame, plenty of mercy.
3 Bpaul // Nov 18, 2009 at 7:17 am
sticking peacock in the surface film like that is merciless, I have to agree with Rob on this one
nice pattern, wish I had thought of it myself
Bp
4 Jonathon A. Waske - Fly Fishing Artist // Nov 21, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I tie a ton of my nymphs for smallmouth with peacock hearl and they produce. I finally convinced a few friends to try a tandem fly rig and it stuck!
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