Tying and fishing the Coho Deceiver

Here’s an old standard saltwater pattern, Lefty Kreh’s Deceiver, tied in a 3” size to catch Coho Salmon in saltwater. The pattern features the fluorescent chartreuse and pink that these salmon love to chase. Although it incorporates quite a few materials, any tier with moderate skills should be able to manage it.
Hook: Ahrex SA220 #6 or any standard saltwater hook #4
Thread: UTC 140 denier, color to match tail
Tail: six Chinese rooster neck hackles, fluorescent pink or chartreuse, with a single strand of holographic silver Flashabou and 3-4 strands of pearl Flashabou along the sides
Body: flat diamond braid in silver or pearl, with an underbody of white supreme hair/super hair
Wing: fluorescent pink or chartreuse bucktail, topped with 3-4 strands of peacock herl
Throat: red Krystal Flash
Head: thread to match tail color, coated with UV resin over 3/32” super-pearl adhesive eyes
Music Credit: “Embrace”by ItsWatR

[@Sigtryggr154]

Ive been fishing the sound for years and just recently took up fly fishing the sound and all I can say is I wish I had started this sooner! Love the video as I am all learning to make my own flies. These look great

[@markmiddleton9336]

The olive and white if not productive for salmon I bet would catch Smallmouth !

[@Annie-zf7xi]

Just found you channel. Great pattern for the sound and hood canal. And it works! What rod and reel combo are you using ? Thank you for sharing the fly! 😀

[@timothybird7008]

Thanks for your comment! I use an 8wt combo consisting of a Echo Boost Blue rod/Sage Spectrum reel. For 7-wt, I use an Echo Ion XL rod/Temple Fork BVK SD reel. On Both rods, I use either Rio Outbound Short or Scientific Anglers Sonar Titan intermediate lines.

[@mukffishing]

The smaller eyes are a great detail. Broke my rod tip earlier this week when the wind blew my clouser into my rod. Were you fishing the canal this Monday? Saw a south paw casting on the west side of the canal Monday morning at a spot I was going to but ended up heading a different way.

[@timothybird7008]

Same happened to me with a tungsten-head squid pattern. That wasn’t me on Monday; I was fishing on the Canal at Scenic Beach on Thursday, though, and got a nice 17” SRC

[@dowmer3093]

Nice fly tying video Tim. Coho are notorious for short strikes, I noticed you seemed to have quite a few misses with the long deceiver tail. Would it be worth experimenting with a deceiver rigged with a stinger hook? Or perhaps a tube fly version? Just thinking about how to hook those short nippy strikes with a fly such as this. Either way, nice tutorial. I like how you tie the fly and then show you fishing it. I wish more tyers would do that. Cheers.