modern Michigan streamer · by 2014
Lynch's Drunk & Disorderly
Also called D&D, Double D
Likely origin Lynch as designer and the Michigan origin agree across Orvis, Wet Fly Swing, the Slide Inn and Frankenfly; no source gives a design year, only that it was in use by 2014.
History
Tommy Lynch, a west Michigan streamer guide who fishes the Pere Marquette and upper Manistee, designed the Drunk & Disorderly to swim like the Rapala minnows he caught big trout on as a boy. In his own account for Orvis, the idea came to him one night as he was falling asleep, and he spent about a year and a half refining it.
Its action comes from a deer-hair head trimmed into a door-wedge shape and hardened with resin, with little bulk behind it. The head digs and kicks the fly side to side when stripped. Lynch dropped marabou from early versions because it dulled that motion. The Slide Inn and other shops sell it, and Mike Schultz credits it as a model for his own Swingin' D.
Materials
| Hook | Two hooks: jig-style or streamer hook about size 2 front, size 4 trailer, joined with wire |
|---|---|
| Thread | GSP, to match head |
| Rear hook tail | Flashabou |
| Rear hook body | Polar chenille or similar flash body, rabbit zonker collar, mallard flank |
| Connection | Intruder wire with a bead or two |
| Front hook body | Flash chenille, rabbit zonker collar, mallard flank |
| Head | Spun deer belly hair trimmed into an angled wedge, coated with UV resin |
| Eyes | Stick-on or 3D eyes set in the resin |
| Rattle | Optional glass rattle |
Tying video
Drunk & Disorderly Streamer (D&D) by Tommy Lynch - Shad Rap Edition by Schultz Outfitters
Sources
- Lynch, T. "Big and Meaty: Tommy Lynch's Drunk & Disorderly Streamer." Orvis News (first run c. 2014).
- "WFS 347: Streamers for Trout with Tommy Lynch." Wet Fly Swing podcast, August 2, 2022.
- "Lynch's Drunk and Disorderly." Galloup's Slide Inn (product page).
- McSparran, R. "Tying Tommy Lynch's Drunk and Disorderly Streamer." Anglers All, September 17, 2020.
- "Swingin' D Fly by Mike Schultz." Frankenfly.
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