The Purple Hazy Dragon Double Buford - From "The Voices Collection"

The Purple Hazy Dragon Double Buford - From "The Voices Collection" housed exclusively in the depths of the North Dakota Institute of the Esoxually Insane.

I was listening to the voices again..... and this one got away from me and in the end something special appeared.

I dug into some absolutely gorgeous then Musky Fool now Figure Eats Bucktail and the combination of Unicorn Poop, Purple, Pink and Chartreuse ... just got to me.

It started with some great Whiting Schlappen on a tail of a 5/0 GAmakatsu B10s Then blends of pink and Unicorn Poop dyed bucktail.

Then it needed a 1 3/4 Custom shank from .048 wire that was loaded with shades of dyed grapness and polarflash.

Up front things got ....wierd.

I hung a custom connector shank a half inch off a 6/0 Misfit Musky Hook and withing the tightly packed bucktail batches...

I buried a double rattle holder rig that allows rattles to be removed or replace and protected from the rigors of being rifled around ones head by a 450+ grains of vinyl coated fly line goodness.

From they the combination of Bucktail, Flash and feathers just kind of came together into a nicely trimmed bufordish style head.

This monstrosity was headed for the back bin but I just had to fish it and fish it did.... Great profile and movement enticed a very very healthy Tiger Musky to torpedo from the shallow depths of the riverbed and take a ferocious swipe at this Unicon-poopness of destiny.

In that very split second.. I chose.....(this is story I'm telling myself in order to not cry) I chose that the mere movement of the striped denzien of teeth and terror was enough of a success and purposly.... (tough to pretend herebut..) purposely pulled this beautiful concoction of quality bucktail OUT of the mouth of said Musky and deliver it safely back into the lap of a shellshocked and shoke, half frozen fluffy fisherman.

I thought about putting it into my regular rotation but also understand the responsibility of sharing the real developments from the Institute.  So I dried it off, cleaned it well, and will include some replacement rattles for the rig, and allow it to spread its Unicornish wings.