Stripper's Glitter Baitfish

Using one of our most popular head designs, we have replaced marabou with Kreinik fibers make for a super deadly, easy to cast, sparkly, durable, and skinny baitfish pattern.

	Hook: Gamakatsu B10S, Ahrex TP610 (Shown in images & shop favorite), Gamakatsu SL113H for Salt Thread: Veevus Power Thread 140 Tail Piece: Tailfeather Spine cut to 1" total length Tail/Belly/Wing: Kreinik Fibers Body: Spectrum Glimmer, UV Polar Chenille, Polar Reflector Joint: 1.5" of Joint Wire & 1 glass bead Throat/Head: Rainy's Evazote Foam Trim: Ice Dub UV Red
	Step 1 - Place spine in vise, attach thread, and add a small dubbing ball
	Step 2 - Grab Kreinik chunk and trim clean to your finger tips
	Step 3 - Attach Kreinik ahead of dubbing bal with 4-5 wraps and trim to desired length, roughly the size of your hook is a good reference.
	Step 4 - Back off 3-4 wraps, use your finger tips to "roll" the Kreinik around the spine creating a 360 degree skirt and wrap back to dubbing ball. Trim the front of the body wrap to 1/4" for the first inch and attach to spine.
	Step 5 - Palmer wrap forward maintaining backward angle and tie off, part vertically.
	Step 6 - Trim desired taper into your tail minding to keep the fibers from intertwining with tail fibers. Most baitfish bodies taper to a narrow point before fanning out to their tail. Dub over your thread area, tie off, and apply super glue.
	Step 7 - String on tail to the wire, add bead making the tips even on the wire. See background, add thread to hook and a defined thread bump at the start of the bend of the hook.
	Step 8 - Attach your tail piece to the top of the hook shank maintaining a loop about the size of the bead between the bead and the eye of your tail.
	Step 9 - Add a dubbing ball for your Kreinik fibers to flare off.
	Step 10 - Add Pearl or lighter belly to the underside by attaching it a bit towards the eye and rotating it around to form belly as you wrap back to the dubbing ball.
	Step 11 - Add darker tone wing to the top 180 of the fly and wrap to dubbing ball.
	Step 12 - Attach body wrap material wrapped back to the same point as the Kreinik.
	Step 13 - Palmer forward to JUST A PINCH past the hook point. Trim to your liking. This will be nigh impossible to trim once the belly and wing are in place, so keep that in mind.
	Step 14 - Attach lighter belly tone and trim to just past the front of your tail piece, or how you see fit. It does not grow back.
	Step 15 - Add wing and trim to desired length. Make you are wrapped back to just in front of the hook point as that will decided the size of your foam head.
	Step 16 - Tie in red foam slice/strip on top of shank.
	Step 17 - Barber pole wrap strip forward creating a nice, clean taper and tie foam off on the top of shank.
	Step 18 - Prepare to add foam head, notice the slight angles cut, the narrow end will be the nose.
	Step 19 - Fold foam over like a liltte taco and start with loose wraps to attach it to the hook.
	Step 20 - Use a wide spread of wraps to attach the foam to help complete the tie down without cutting through foam.
	Step 21 - Encase your thread head with a sparse layer of Ice Dub, tie off, and apply a small amount of super glue to the know BEFORE trimming.
	Step 22 - Carefully fold the foam back and CAREFULLY, CAUTIOUSLY apply super glue underneath. Watch your fingertips.
	Step 23 - Rotate your vise and hold the "taco" shell together while the glue cures for a couple minutes. Careful with your finger tips.
	Step 24 -I like to slide my finished product into a tape measure clip for 5-10 minutes for perfect finish and to allow you move on to the next fly while it cures. That is the Stripper's Glitter!