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Peanut Envy
A streamer, tied #2–6, carried year round. It is tied against 1 named insect in this book, and stands in when nothing is hatching — all year. Kelly Galloup.
A jointed streamer from Kelly Galloup, built on two hooks in sizes 2–6 with olive 6/0 thread. The rear section carries marabou, palmered schlappen and rubber legs; the two halves are linked by wire and beads; the front is schlappen with a marabou collar behind a spun deer-hair head clipped to shape. All of that adds up to a lot of water push, which is the point of the fly. It imitates the sculpin, Cottus spp., a baitfish present all year in water from 33 to 72 degrees, and it also goes on when there is no hatch at all and the water has to be searched. It is fished swung and jerked along wood and undercut banks, and it earns its keep in the hour either side of dark. Carried all season, for trout and smallmouth bass.
- #2–6Hook size
- streamerType
- AllSeason
- 1Hatch matched
What it imitates
Each of these is the same hatch record the app's own panel reads, so a pattern recommended on a river card in the app is recommended for one of the insects below.
It is also tagged for no hatch at all — a searching pattern.
Tying recipe
In tying order. This dressing is the standard one — these patterns have been in the publicrecord for decades; Kelly Galloup. — and materials substitute freely: the proportions and the silhouette are the pattern, not the brand of dubbing.
| Hook | Two hooks, articulated, sizes 2–6 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Olive 6/0 |
| Rear | Marabou, palmered schlappen, rubber legs |
| Joint | Wire and beads |
| Front | Schlappen and marabou collar, deer-hair head |
| Head | Spun deer hair, clipped |
When to fish it
A jointed streamer with a lot of water push. Swung and jerked along wood and undercut banks.
Carried all year. The insects it matches are active all year, in water from 33°F to 72°F.
Target species
- Trout
- Smallmouth bass
Rivers it fishes well
Rivers with a page here that sit in the regions where the insects this pattern imitates are recorded. It is a claim about coverage, not a report of a fish caught.
- Au Sable River northern lower Michigan · July mean 72.1°F
- Catawba River the North Carolina mountains · July mean 76.7°F
- Jackson River the Virginia mountains · July mean 66.3°F
- Muskegon River northern lower Michigan · July mean 71.0°F
- Escanaba River the Upper Peninsula · July mean 68.3°F
- Saint Croix River northern Wisconsin · July mean 77.2°F
- Smith River the Virginia mountains · July mean 51.9°F
- Tygart Valley River the Virginia mountains · July mean 74.6°F
- Kalamazoo River southern lower Michigan · July mean 71.3°F
- Aaron Creek the North Carolina mountains · July mean 76.7°F
- Aaron Run the Virginia mountains · July mean 77.1°F
- Aarons Run the Virginia mountains · July mean 74.2°F
Related patterns
Same type of fly, or tied for the same insects.
- Circus Peanut streamer · #2–6 — Articulated, rubber-legged, unapologetic. A Michigan big-brown fly.
- Game Changer streamer · #2–6 — Segmented and it swims on its own. Slow water, big fish, a lot of patience.
- Muddler Minnow streamer · #4–10 — Sculpin sunk, hopper skated. Older than the sport's opinions about it.
- Woolly Bugger (Black) streamer · #2–12 — If you could only own one fly. Leech, sculpin, big nymph, all of it.
- Woolly Bugger (Brown) streamer · #2–12 — Brown with a bit of copper reads as a crayfish. Hop it along the bottom.