Flies that work in winter

This Lefty’s Deceiver is a large, 3/0 fly, with white feathers and both white and chartreuse buck tail deer fibers. It’s an excellent mud minnow imitation and will draw strikes from winter redfish.

Most redfish flies intended to mimic mud minnows, their primary winter forage, are either tied with weighted eyes — Clouser-style flies — or tied un-weighted, Deceiver-style flies.

Larger flies will cast easily, and despite their size, they will land softly and float above the bottom when stripped quickly — very effective at attracting instinct strikes from redfish in all seasons, not just winter.

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