My Fly The "Meal Ticket"

A few years ago I started toying around with an idea for a fly I had come up with using a material that I loved in some other flies (look for Pat's Fur Ball, it is a great smallie fly).  This material is CCT body fur which I can best describe as a synthetic hackle like material.  It keeps a big profile but soaks up water really quick and throws that water when casted so the fly does not become water logged.  I have always loved fishing articulated streamers and it was time I created my own.  Along came the Meal Ticket, although a few of my friends call it the Toad F#*cker.  It was dubber such because on of  the fly's first trials we came across a bunch of toads mating.  That first outing was fairly successful with some really nice brookies caught on.  After a few months of tweaking the fly to keep it from tangling up as much due to the stinger hook and a few name changes for obvious reasons the fly has become what it is today....Hansen's Meal Ticket.  It can be found in Rainy's 2011 catalog.

Scroll to the bottom of the page.  My olive version is on the next page.
http://rainysflies.com/newfor2011.php?pageNum_rsNew2010=6&totalRows_rsNew2010=77