Moto's Minnow

This is one of the simplest yet most time consuming flies you could ever tie. However, it provides results that keep me patient behind the vice to have a few more. My past two winters this fly put more fish in the net than any other pattern, and when you get right down to it, it truly is an eye-catching, classical pattern. I tie these in sizes ranging from a 6 to a 14. Typically, the colder it is the smaller I go. Dead drift it under an indicator or tightline nymph this fella as a dropper and you have a presentation that fish always seem to munch.