Assam Dragon- Charlie Brooks

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Pwknauth
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Assam Dragon- Charlie Brooks

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Will be tying up a few Charlie Brook's fly the Assam Dragon.
The original patterns calls for seal skin strip.
What have you been using as a substitute?
thanks
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Norm Frechette
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Re: Assam Dragon- Charlie Brooks

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rabbit strip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrrgTuHQTg
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dborjas
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Re: Assam Dragon- Charlie Brooks

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I'm probably splitting hairs (yuk,yuk ), but I bet some pine squirrel micro zonker strips would do a nice job with this pattern. I have been fishing some stillwaters in my area using this material on some leech type patterns. sexy stuff.
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