The briminator is a very good fly for fishing for the various species of “bream”; the bluegill, redear, longear,goggle-eye, and the many other species that make up this variety of fishes. I usually tie this fly on the mustad 3366 hook in sizes #8 or #10. I also use the 3399A and the 3366 big eye hook, but the plain and cheap mustad 3366 is my favorite. A small bead chain eye is tied on the hook about 1/8 inch from the eye to provide some sink weight. I use the unthread 6/0 thread in some comprable color but its just a personal preferance as almost any thread will suffice.
The fly is tied using the single “hour-glass” feather from the ringed neck pheasant. The feather from the golden pheasant can also be used, but the golden has no “hour-glass feather.
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The fluff on one side of this feather is used for the tail. Just cut off the fluff and tie it at the back of the hook shank. The other side of the fluff, found at the bottom of the feather, is used to “dub” the body by simply cutting it from the feather and with thumb and forefinger spinning it round the thread and paltering it to the eyes. The remainder of the feather, the “hour-glass” is then tied in by the butt and palmered around the shank, just behind the eyes. More of the fluff is then used to palmer in front of the paltered hour glass, then thru the eyes culminating at the hook eye. A whip finish concludes the tie. (Here is the comparable feather from the golden pheasant)
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Here is the completed briminator using the hour glass feather followed by one using the golden pheasant feather.
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You can also tie this fly on a mini jig. Using the golden pheasant, I generally wrap the body in gold
metallic needle point yarn and eliminate using the “fluff” to dub the body. Here is a 1/80 jig hook using the golden pheasant. Yellow thread compliments the golden feathers.
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