I'm sure there are plenty of patterns that work like a scum frog, but part of the fun of flytying is coming up with a specific pattern to solve a specific problem. I've been working on one that I call the Fraschpunk -- Germanish for Punk Frog. I'll try to post a pic of it later, but basically I take a sz. 2 wide-gape stinger hook and bend it about two-thirds of the way down, so that the point is parallel to the hook shank but offset by a half inch (on a normal stinger the plane of the hook point intersects the plane of the shank). I tie some green or yellow chenille around the bent part of the shank and add multi-strand knotted rubber legs. On the straight (front) part of the shank, I spin a deer hair frog slider pattern upside down, with some extra batches of yellow deer hair on top. When I trim the head, I leave the extra yellow hairs a little long -- like a mohawk, thus 'punk' -- so they act as a weed guard. With the chenille and the legs pulling the hook to ride upside down, and the mohawk weed guard, the thing is pretty bombproof. The bad news is that I have yet to get a strike on it, but I've only fished it a couple times.
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