I developed this pattern simply by playing around with Spirit River's Lite Brite dubbing a number of years ago. The dubbing, at that time, came in small packages and was loose. The fibers were coarse and long but offered interesting colors and properties. At the time I was experimenting with streamer patterns for Chinook Salmon that offered ease in tying, durability and aggravating qualities like bright colors and flash. This stuff had all of those, but I needed to find a way to build it into a pattern. What follows is where I am now at with that endeavor.

The color combinations are about endless, and now Spirit River offers the material in hanks. Furthermore, this pattern in appropriate sizes has fooled steelhead, browns, trout and most warmwater species.

Give it a try!

MATERIAL LIST :

Hook: Mustad C68S SS (or any suitable straight eye, standard shank hook)

Thread: Mono

Wing: Spirit River Lite-Brite, stacked.

Eyes: Prismatic Stick-one

Head: Loon Outdoor's UV KNot Sense

Smash the barb and insert the hook as shown.

Start a jam knot with your mono thread behind the eye. Coat about 1/4 the surface of the hook with thread, ending just behind the eye.

Invert the hook and select the belly color for your streamer. Remove a bunch of the long fibers. Select a bunch 1/2 the diameter of what you want for your final portion.

Fold the material around the thread as shown.

Holding the tips of the doubled material, take one wrap of thread to lock the material in place against the hook.

Pull the material to the rear and bind it down over the mono thread base layer, return the thread to the eye.

Revert the hook to its normal position.

Select the body color for your streamer. Select a bunch of material as with the belly, only this time you'll want to use about twice as much.

Note: You can use as many colors as you want for the body. Just size the material bunches accordingly.

Double it around the thread.

Wrap thread to lock it in place.

Pull back and bind down.

Select dorsal color. Use a bit less than you did for the belly color.

Double around thread.

Lock in place.

Pull back and bind down. What a mess!

Whip finish the mono thread 3 times. Mono does not knot well.

Clip excess thread. Fly looks ugly eh?

Trim the material at the rear at a rough "V" angle. This will approximate the finished length of the fly. It's still ugly.

Next, with a small comb (I'm using a cheap eyelash comb), comb though the stacked materials to blend them and to remove the fibers that don't want to play nice.

Looking a bit better. A good grooming is always nice!

Take some thinning shears and lop though the material with one cut just behind the hook. This will create a density taper that I find pleasing.

Pull out the fibers that got cut.

Starting to take shape....

Select some stick-on prismatic eyes. I like the largest I can feasibly fit on the hook.

Using a small bodkin (I make many of my own), remove a single eye.

Place the eye on the head area.

I like to situate the eyes so that they account for most of the head.

Invert hook and repeat for the rear side. Be sure the eyes mirror each other.

Grab some Loon Outdoors' UV Knot Sense.

Apply a dollop on each eye and between each eye on the top and bottom. It will run a bit-so use that to your advantage.

With a needle or toothpick, move the knot sense around until the eyes are sealed and the head is pleasing.

Whack the head with a blast of UV light. I am using Loon's UV Powerlamp which will harden the head in a matter of seconds.

The completed Loren's Lite Brite!