Step 1: For tarpon, place a short-shanked hook in the vise. Vary hook/fly size for other species. Tie in one or two quality marabou feathers just before the bend in the hook. Wrap the marabou shaft five or six times with thread to raise the tail and prevent fouling.
Tying the Toad
Step 2: Palmer a zonker strip of contrasting color two or three times just forward of the marabou tail, finishing it off with several wraps of thread and head cement.
Tying the Toad
Step 3: Tie in segments of floating poly yarn to form a standard crab-style body.
Tying the Toad
Step 4: Trim the yarn body to shape with scissors. Add black monofilament eyes for floating/subsurface patterns or lead eyes for sinking patterns.
Tying the Toad
Step 5: Coat head and body wraps with head cement. Add a weed guard of 16-pound mason hard mono (optional).
