Views from the Vice – Meat Whistle

Daydreaming about making some casts to Adirondack trophy brown trout hunkered down along the bottom of the perfect piece of pocket water got me thinking about my presentation — and Wayne’s constant advice that you CANNOT get your presentation down fast enough to get to these huge two foot wild brown trout. My new years’ resolution of sorts — use more weight. Hence the jig headed Meat Whistle streamer you see above.

The Meat Whistle is a John Barr design tied with rabbit fur, marabou, rubber legs, and I threw in some hackle fibers for good measure. It is a massive streamer that can imitate anything from a crawfish to an injured minnow… and we all know how much the 24″ browns at Papa Bear’s Outdoors like both of those things don’t we? I have lots more variations in a range of sizes lining my fly boxes for my trip north in a few months. June can’t come soon enough.

Tight Lines!