Garbage Pail Kid

Garbage Pail Kid Recipe

Hatch

Streamer

Hook:

Hook - Gamakatsu B10S

Thread:

Thread - Veevus GSP

Tail:

Bucktail - Buck tail - Primo Large

Tail:

Bucktail - Bucktail - White - Large

Tail:

ZONKER - Zonker strip

Body:

Feather - Hackle feather - Chartreuse - Medium

Body:

Flex Hackle - Flex Hackle - 1 1/4”

Head:

CRAFT FUR - Craft Fur

Eyes:

EYES - Fish Skull Living Eyes - Earth - 8.5

Recipe By

Jay VerHelst

About the Garbage Pail Kid

This fly sounds as good as it looks and boy do Pike love it! Pink, chartreuse, red and white are all good color choices. With a Zonker strip tail to give it movement and a craft fur head these flies fish amazingly well. Size 3/0 hook for the big pike and don’t forget to UV Cure the wraps!!!

Baitfish

Streamer

How to tie the Garbage Pail Kid

Step 1: Start

Insert a 3/0 hook into vise and clamp down. Start your thread and wrap back towards the bend of the hook.

Step 2: Tail 1

Select a small clump of Chartreuse buck tail about half the width of a pencil and tie it in.

Step 3: Tail 2

Select a second clump of buck tail the same size and this time in white and tie in on top of the first.

Step 4: Feathers

Select 5 medium sized Chartreuse barred feather hackles and tie one on each side and the others over the top.

Step 5: Trim

Cut the tag ends off of the feathers and secure tightly. Add two pieces of lateral scale in chartreuse to each side of the fly. Add UV resin at this point to help protect the wraps from toothy fish!

Step 6: Tail 3

Select a Zonker strip from the pack a little longer than the feathers you selected to help give the tail a tapered look. Part the fur and tie the strip in above the feathers. Cut the tag end.

Step 7: Body

Tie in black flex hackle about 4” in length

Step 8: Palmer

Palmer flex hackle forward and tie off at the middle of the length of the hook shank. Trim excess.

Step 9: Body

Tie in Chartreuse Flex Hackle in the same way and palmer forward to the hook eye and tie in and trim the tag end. Give a few extra wraps to secure and UV Resin to make it bomb proof

Step 10: Head

Comb out and select a clump of Craft fur. The size can vary depending on the size you want the head to be but all sides of the hook eye need to be covered to make a good shaped head. Take your time and don’t leave any bare spots. Reverse tie in tightly, Whip finish and trim the threads tag end.

Step 11: Shape the head

With a buck tail tool such as MN Fly Tool Co.’s Fly tool. Push the fur backwards towards the tail of the fly. Take your time to fold it all back together and form a symmetrical head shape.

Step 12: UV Resin

Spread Resin around the hook eye on the craft fur a little at a time and cure it as you go to hold the shape you desire for the craft fur.

Step 13: Eyes

Select 2 eyes and glue them into place

Step 14: Cast

Cast this for hungry Pike!