Description
Ninety years and still killing. The Mickey Finn dates back to 1936, when a Toronto sportswriter named John Alden Knight tied a red-and-yellow bucktail streamer that would become one of the most legendary patterns in the history of fly fishing. It got its nickname from the Prohibition-era cocktail: knockout drops for fish.
This is the Fire Tiger take on the classic — the traditional red and yellow bucktail wing over a silver mylar tinsel body, but with the color balance tuned hotter. Bright yellow bucktail sandwiches a hot red center stripe, and the tinsel body flashes on every strip.
What eats it: Brook trout that have never seen it will inhale it. Browns hunt it on the swing. Smallmouth crush it in warmwater rivers. Pickerel, pike, and chain pickerel will chase it into the boat. Even snook and specks in brackish marsh will eat a bright bucktail.
How to fish it: Cast down and across, swing it through current seams, then strip it back with sharp pulls. In stillwater, count it down and retrieve with irregular pauses. The tinsel body and hot bucktail flash trigger reaction strikes from cover.
Tied on: Daiichi 2220 4XL streamer hook. Available in #2, #4, #6, #10.
Round out the streamer box. Fish this with the rest of the FINATICS classic streamer collection:
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