Galloup’s Angler Fish

Description

Galloup’s angler fish.  The angler fish has been a code cracker on those days when nothing else seems to be working, and has been a staple trigger style fly for Kelly since he came up with it in the Fall of 2015.  The front portion of the fly is primarily composed of olive brown UV polar chenille with a couple pairs of orange barred crazy legs on each side, followed by an olive grizzly saddle tied in at the rear of the front hook that runs down to the tail of the fly.  The rear hook contains 2 palmered marabou plumes, which was the inspiration for the name of this pattern.  The actual angler fish lives in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans and uses a fleshy luminescent organ called the esca that they wiggle to imitate prey, which in turn lures the anglerfish’s prey close enough for them to devour whole.  It is this bright contrast of orange and sunburst yellow marabou in the tail that we believe elicits the strike from predatory fish, and we are really looking forward to having this fly in production for the 2017 season.  Galloup’s angler fish comes in size 1/0.