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Multi-Imitation Profile. Subsurface, its spun deer-hair head traps air to wobble and mimic bottom-dwelling sculpins. On the surface, the bulky head mimics a grasshopper or large caddis.
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Active Retrieves. Subsurface drifts are typically swung or stripped through deep seams, pools, and boulder transitions where bull trout wait.
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Surface Skating. Fished dry (often greased with floatant) during late summer terrestrial hatches, skated or twitched across surface currents to provoke explosive cutthroat strikes entomology hatches 2026 06.