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Peanut Envy
Kelly Galloup designed the Peanut Envy as a tribute to Russ Madden's Circus Peanut, a widely fished articulated streamer. Galloup swapped the Estaz body of the original for Ice Dub and replaced the lead eyes with a conehead, which still gives the fly its diving motion. A tuft of marabou behind the head of each hook keeps the profile deep. The two hooks are joined with a short loop of wire carrying a glass bead. Tied here in olive with a size 4 rear hook and a size 1 front hook.
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Materials
Daiichi 2460 hook, size 4, for the rear section (or MFC Articulated Streamer Hook)
4
GSP 100 denier, white
White · 100 denier
Strung blood quill marabou, olive
Olive
Flashabou, copper, mixed into the tail
Copper
Hareline Ice Dub, olive, for both bodies and the rear head
Olive
Grizzly variant schlappen or saddle, olive, palmered on both hooks
Olive grizzly
UTC Ultra Wire, copper, Brassie size, on both hooks
Copper · Brassie
Hareline Barred Crazy Legs, golden yellow/pearl flake, on both hooks
Golden yellow/pearl flake
Strung blood quill marabou, olive, a tuft on top behind the head of each hook
Olive
AFW Surflon Micro Ultra 19-strand wire, to join the two hooks
One glass bead, threaded onto the connecting wire
Daiichi 2460 hook, size 1, for the front section (or MFC Articulated Streamer Hook)
1
Brass conehead, black nickel, large
Black nickel · Large
Aftershaft feather from the olive grizzly variant schlappen or saddle (or olive marabou), as a skirt over the connection
Olive
How to Tie the Peanut Envy
- 1
Step 1
Mount the size 4 rear hook in the vise, start the white GSP thread and run it back to the bend.
- 2
Step 2
Tie in a bunch of olive marabou at the bend for the tail, and add a few strands of copper Flashabou to the tail. Bind the butts down and trim.
- 3
Step 3
Tie in the copper wire and an olive grizzly variant schlappen or saddle feather at the base of the tail.
- 4
Step 4
Dub a full body of olive Ice Dub forward along the shank, stopping short of the eye.
- 5
Step 5
Palmer the hackle forward over the body and tie it off. Wind the wire forward through the hackle as a rib, tie it off and trim.
- 6
Step 6
Tie in barred rubber legs along each side near the front of the hook.
- 7
Step 7
Tie a tuft of olive marabou on top behind the eye as a wing, then whip finish and remove the rear hook from the vise.
- 8
Step 8
Slide the conehead onto the size 1 front hook, mount it in the vise and start the thread. Lay a length of Surflon wire along the shank, thread a glass bead onto it, pass it through the eye of the rear hook and bind both ends down along the front shank.
- 9
Step 9
At the rear of the front hook, tie in the aftershaft feather from the schlappen (or a tuft of olive marabou) as a skirt to cover the connection.
- 10
Step 10
Tie in wire and hackle, dub an Ice Dub body, then palmer the hackle and rib it with the wire, the same way as on the rear hook.
- 11
Step 11
Add rubber legs on each side and a tuft of olive marabou on top as a wing, leaving room behind the conehead.
- 12
Step 12
Dub a short head of olive Ice Dub between the wing and the conehead, then whip finish behind the cone.
Watch Tying Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4VwgQfO5k
Credit: Kelly Galloup / TheSlideinn