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streamer
Egan's Poacher — Olive
- Sizes
- #8
- Imitates
- sculpin · minnow · crayfish · leech
- Origin
- Lance Egan
A heavily-weighted jig streamer built for Euro nymphing rigs. Squirrel zonker tail, Ripple Ice Dub flash, Mega Simi Seal body, Brahma Hen Saddle hackle. Sinks fast, kicks on the drift.
Recipe
This is one dressing. Tie it in other colors to match the hatch in front of you.
- HookHanak 400 Jig — size 10 · Hanak
- BeadSlotted Tungsten — Black Nickel 4.6mm
- ThreadDanville 140D — Olive · Danville
- TailWapsi Squirrel Zonker Strip — Sculpin Olive
- BodyArizona Mega Simi Seal — Dirty Olive · Arizona Fly Fishing
- HackleWhiting Brahma Hen Saddle — Mottled Gray / Dyed Golden Olive
- Weight.025" lead wire under-body
- FlashHareline Ripple Ice Dub — Mother of Pearl
Workbench
Variants
Swipe to see In box and Add
| Size | Bead | Body | In box | Add to box |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | — | — | — | — |
At the vise
Tying notes are not on file for this pattern.
Tying video
No tying video on file.
Fishing now on
Rivers whose hatch chart names this pattern this month. Names and sizes only.
Not named on this month's hatch charts.
On the water
Stay in contact on the drift. Strikes come on the fall, so the tension of the rig matters more than the pattern itself.
History
Fishing streamers on a Euro rig has quietly become one of the deadliest techniques in competition fly fishing — and the Poacher is Lance Egan's answer. A regular bead-head Woolly Bugger is too airy, too slow-sinking for the tight-line presentation this style demands. The Poacher packs in a tungsten bead, .025" lead wire under-body, a squirrel zonker tail, dirty olive Mega Simi Seal dubbing, and a hen-saddle hackle — dense enough to drop into deep slots while still animating with every rod-tip twitch. Fish it like a nymph with subtle lifts; most strikes come on the fall.