Pooch Persuader (Taylor)

I included this fly because it looked to me to be a promising fly to fish for estuary chum salmon (my apologies to Jay Taylor for deviating from the original design). It was, in fact a good choice for some of the early estuary fishing I did this fall for Chum, proving itself in a local Puget Sound estuary creek when the tide was outgoing. Jay Taylor says that he developed the Pooch Persuader to fish for the Chum Salmon in Hoodsport, the idea being that a sparse silhouette would appeal more to the chum then some of the more heavily dressed flies.