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Hook: Wet Fly #8-#18
Thread: Matches Body Color 6/0
Ribbing: Blue fishing line
Back: Tinsel and peacock herl
Head: Gold, Copper or Brass Beadhead
Body: Antron Dubbing (Olive, Orange)

Tying Instructions:
First tie on your thread. After this you are going to want to apply some weight to the fly. Use a strip or more of lead and tie it down so that it sits on the top of the hook shank. This creates the rollover effect. Make sure you tie down the lead good, you don't want it to slide around at all. Then tie a piece of blue fishing line and a small strip of tinsel at the back of the hook, with the excess sticking out like a tail. The tinself should be tied on so that when it is flipped up over the body the silver side is showing. On each side of the tinsel apply a small strand of peacock herl and have it stick back like the tinsel. Then apply your body to the fly. The best color is usually orange but olive will also work. I use antron for this, but other things can be used. Cover the hook with the body all the way up to the eye of the hook. Then grab the peacock herl and tinsel and fold it over the top of the body. Align the peacock so that there is a strand on each side of the tinsel. Tie down the tinsel and peacock herl behind the eye of the hook. Now take the blue fishing line and wrap it around the hook toward the eye. This is the ribbing and should be spaced apart appropriately. Tie down the fishing line, making sure to make several wraps of thread around the fishing line because it can come out very easily. Now cut off your thread and excess fishing line. To finish the fly you must use your bodkin and pick at the bottom of the fly so that there are strands of antron sticking out the bottom of the fly. There should be a good amount of it you pick out and it shouldn't stick out any farther than where the sharp part of the hook comes to.

Fly Information:
This fly is a combination of a couple I have seen in books. The general idea is from Gary LaFontaine's rollover scud. It is called a rollover scud because when it is retrieved or when you give the line a little tug, it makes the fly roll over in the water. This roll over effect triggers many fish to take the fly. This fly is mainly for taking fish in lakes and works particularly well in high mountain lakes. You can fish it in lakes with an abundance of scuds or one that has very few. Because of the rollover effect trout will take this fly. It is also a good fly to use on fish that are feeding on zooplankton.