Bucktail Minnows. A series of flies with bodies, hackles and wings of bucktail hair. Bodies wound with gold or silver tinsel. Tied variously by a number of fly tiers. Designed to imitate a live minnow.
Col. Fuller. Originated by 1899 by John Shields, Sr., of Brookline, Mass. Named for the late Col. Fuller, a noted Boston sportsman, who used it with great success on the Belgrade Lakes in Maine. There is considerable variation in the tying of this fly. The original pattern had a gold tinsel body with a gold rib; peacock herl head; wing bright yellow; outer wing or shoulder, scarlet; tail black.
Dazzler. Originated in 1918 by Bert Crawford, St. Joseph, Mo. Striking bass flies of hair and feathers highly decorated with tinsel.
