(Truth be told, like alot of you I release most of my fish, but I always wanted to make a streamer called 'The Last Supper.')
There's nothing all that new here, it's just a gray rabbit strip on a TMC 7999 salmon iron, which has a little more gape than some of the other streamer hooks I've been using so maybe my hookup % will increase a bit(?) ... I also tied a couple with trailers. I think the rabbit strip, ribbed with wire, might hold up a bit better than marabou.
It has dumbbell eyes for a little heft and flared deer hair head. Mike Valla might call it a 'flure' and cancel my membership, so I will throw myself on the mercy of the court and promise to tie only traditional dry flies from here on out.
On this streamer, one thing I do to help prevent the tail from twisting and fouling the hook is to put a thin bead of silicon cement (i.e. Aquaseal, the stuff you use to fix holes in waders) on the bottom of the rabbit strip. This stays flexible while giving the tail a little support.
'The Last Supper' actually comes from Richard Brautigan's 'Trout Fishing in America.' In one especially amusing passage of the book, the narrator dreams that the artist Leonardo da Vinci was a lure maker for South Bend Tackle Co.
Leonardo brings all his artistic powers to bear on creating an earth-shaking new lure.
'He called his bosses in. They looked at the lure and all fainted. Alone, standing over their bodies, he held the lure in his hand and gave it a name. He called it 'The Last Supper.'
'...In a matter of months the fishing lure was the sensation of the twentieth century. ...Millions of 'The Last Supper' were sold in America. The Vatican ordered ten thousand and they didn't even have any trout there.
'Testimonials poured in. Thirty-four ex-presidents of the United States all said, 'I caught my limit on 'The Last Supper.'
For me, I believe 'The Last Supper' is my ticket out of here. Royalties from its sales will allow me to quit my pointless minimum-wage job and fish around the world. And to think you saw it here first.
Rob
