The Midnight Special is my latest color blend with my common pattern platform
I kept looking at the black cactus chenielle at my local shop and finally decided to buy some and create yet another color blend for my crazy fly. I thought that including some purple would set off the black cactus chenielle nicely.
Frank Amato's Night Dancer came to mind so I ended up including purple cow elk wings, red Krystal flash in the tail and black Krystal flash behind the wing. I couldn't resist adding a green butt as well.
This color blend brought steelhead to the top in short order. I raised a local steelhead to the top the day after I tied my first rendition of the Midnight Special and I just raised several more this weekend on a more famous river to the south.
Unfortunately, the steelhead I have encountered have continued to be Teflon mouthed one timers. Luckily, I am happy enough whenever I can bring steelhead to the surface, regardless of whether I hook them.
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