Hatches 2012: The Ghetto Booty by Nick Granato

Magazine — By HatchesMagazine on July 30, 2012 12:04 pm

Like many patterns, it was born of necessity while on the water.
Over the last few years, I’ve found a need for a slightly smaller fly that could be presented well to laid-up tiger muskies, to search structure, and to work the transition areas where tigers tend to lurk.
Since I often fish all types of cover within minutes of one other, changing the fly or picking up another rod is not an ideal option. I needed to develop a do-it-all kind of pattern. But instead of starting from scratch, I chose to tweak the Ghetto Tramp, a pattern that was oh-so-close but fell short in some areas.