Blue Smelt – Tandem
969-46
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The Blue Smelt Tandem stretches the classic blue-over-white smelt profile across a two-hook trolling rig. Blue bucktail and peacock herl ride over a white belly and silver body, while the trailing rear hook extends the fly into a full-grown smelt silhouette and converts the tail-nipping strikes that plague single-hook streamers in cold water.
This is the format built for big-lake work: trolled along shorelines, drop-offs, and tributary mouths where landlocked salmon and lake trout patrol for smelt. The tandem construction adds swimming articulation as well as hooking insurance, giving the fly a subtle swaying action at trolling speed that a stiff single hook can't match.
Best for:
- Trolling big smelt lakes for salmon and lake trout
- Ice-out and fall feeding windows
- Cold-water fish that strike short
📌 Pro Tip: Early season, keep it shallow—salmon cruise the warm top layer at ice-out, and a tandem smelt run high in the column near river mouths is the most dependable pattern of the year.
