How To Tie The Hummie Booby with Steve Cullen

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Steve Cullen's Hummie Booby fly tying tutorial

This Week's Pattern: The Hummie Booby with Steve Cullen

This week's pattern from Steve Cullen is the Hummie Booby, a combination of two familiar and highly effective stillwater trout flies, the Humungus and the Booby. It's a cracking-looking lure that brings together the movement and flash of a traditional Humungus with the buoyancy of a set of foam booby eyes.

The Humungus has been a favourite among trout anglers for years, particularly when fish are feeding on fry. The combination of a mobile marabou tail, a flashy body and a palmered hackle makes it a great pattern to pull through the water. Add the floating eyes of a Booby and you've got a fly with another dimension, giving you a few more options in how you fish it.

Steve's version is tied on a size 8 Kamasan B175, with a white marabou tail and silver and gold Flashabou providing plenty of movement and sparkle. Silver fritz forms the body, while the barred saddle hackle gives it that familiar Humungus profile. A pair of medium Booby eyes finishes the pattern, adding buoyancy and a distinctive silhouette.

It's certainly one worth having in the box as we move through the colder months. When trout are chasing fry, try varying the speed of your retrieve and introducing pauses. The foam eyes make the fly particularly interesting on sinking-line presentations, where it can rise when the retrieve stops, depending on the balance of line, leader and fly.

Watch Steve tie the Hummie Booby

Materials used

There's plenty of room to experiment with colour combinations, but this silver and white dressing has all the ingredients of a useful fry-style lure. As always, it's worth tying a few variations and seeing what the fish prefer on the day.

You'll find a huge choice of synthetic fly tying materials, feathers and hackles, and fly tying hooks at FishingMegastore.com, as well as advice and materials in our Glasgow and Edinburgh stores.

Check out Steve Cullen's other videos on his YouTube channel.

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