FLY TYING: Pike Fly with a Built-in Popper Head 🔥 (Hover Fly 2.0 by Niklaus Bauer)

Some days when pike fly fishing, the difference between succeeding or not can be to fish a fly extremely slow that also stays 100% suspending in the stops. That’s why Niklaus Bauer created the original “Hover Fly“ more than 10 years ago - a great pattern that has caught a lot of big fish but it hasn’t gotten too much attention in recent years. It was time to make the Hover Fly 2.0. MATERIAL LIST: Hook: Partridge Predator CS86 X 4/0, Partridge Z4 size 1 or Ahrex TP610 #4/0 and PR382 #1 Wire: Bauer pike wire titanium Glue: Zap brush on, Epoxy, Gulff UV resin Classic Thread: Textreme Power thread 100D Tail Connection: Fastach size 0, 3mm bead glow in the dark Tail: Dragon tail XL, Holo silver or Copper Eyes: Epoxy eyes 5,5mm glow in the dark Head: Brown Bucktail, Bauer’s Premium Nayat in Nightmare before Christmas, Flashabou in Copper, holo copper, Polarflash in Gold, Ripple ice fiber in copper and Peacook, Predatordubbing in J.K Craw Tail: White Bucktail,