Umpqua Chewy's Minnr Fly

The Umpqua Chewy's Minnr is a skinny-water baitfish pattern designed for one of the most demanding situations in saltwater fly fishing: presenting a convincing minnow to shallow-water fish without making a heavy, disruptive landing.

Many weighted baitfish patterns rely on protruding dumbbell eyes to add weight and help orient the hook. While effective, those eyes can create a noticeable splash when the fly hits the water—exactly what you don't want when sight casting to a wary fish in shallow water.

Chewy's Minnr takes a different approach, creating a highly fishable baitfish presentation that is easy to cast, lands softly and can be presented to shallow-water predators with less disturbance.

Made for Skinny Water

When you're sight fishing in shallow water, presentation can matter as much as the fly itself.

A heavy fly landing too close to a cruising or feeding fish can end the opportunity before the first strip.

The Chewy's Minnr is designed specifically with that problem in mind, making it an excellent choice when targeting fish on shallow flats, shorelines and other clear-water environments where a subtle presentation is important.

Soft-Landing Baitfish Presentation

Traditional minnow patterns often use dumbbell eyes for weight and hook orientation. The downside is additional bulk and a harder landing.

Chewy's Minnr eliminates the need for that traditional approach, allowing anglers to present the fly more delicately.

That softer entry can be a major advantage when you're trying to put a baitfish pattern in front of a fish without immediately alerting it.

Designed for Sight Casting

The Chewy's Minnr really shines when you can see the fish you're casting to.

Its combination of castability, baitfish profile and softer presentation makes it well suited for making accurate shots at cruising or feeding fish.

Lead the fish, make the presentation and bring the Minnr to life with the retrieve rather than relying on a heavy fly to create action.

Versatile Saltwater Minnow Pattern

Almost every predatory saltwater gamefish eats small baitfish, which gives a good minnow imitation tremendous versatility.

For Florida anglers, Chewy's Minnr can be a useful pattern when targeting fish such as:

• Redfish
• Snook
• Tarpon
• Speckled Trout
• Other baitfish-feeding inshore species

It's particularly appealing when those fish are feeding in shallow water where a bulky or heavily weighted fly may be too aggressive.

Features

• Skinny-water minnow pattern
• Designed for soft presentations
• Excellent for sight casting
• Avoids bulky traditional dumbbell eyes
• Baitfish-style profile
• Easy and enjoyable to cast
• Reduced disturbance when entering the water
• Excellent for shallow flats and shorelines
• Versatile saltwater presentation
• Umpqua quality construction

Best For

• Skinny Water
• Sight Fishing
• Redfish
• Snook
• Tarpon
• Speckled Trout
• Shallow Flats
• Mangrove Shorelines
• Baitfish Presentations
• Saltwater Fly Fishing
• Florida Inshore Fishing

Why Choose Chewy's Minnr?

The soft presentation is the major advantage.

When a fish is cruising skinny water, you may only get one good shot. A heavily weighted baitfish pattern that lands with a noticeable splash can turn an otherwise perfect cast into a missed opportunity.

Chewy's Minnr gives anglers a baitfish pattern designed to land more subtly while still providing the profile predatory fish recognize as food.

For sight fishing in shallow water, that's an important combination.

Premier Tackle Take

The Umpqua Chewy's Minnr is exactly the type of pattern we like for Florida skinny-water fly fishing.

For sight casting to redfish, snook and juvenile tarpon, being able to deliver a baitfish pattern without a heavy splash can make a real difference—especially when the fish are shallow, pressured or spooky.

We'd reach for the Chewy's Minnr when fish are feeding on small baitfish but the situation calls for a more delicate presentation than a traditional dumbbell-eye pattern provides.

Put it in front of the fish, land it softly and let the minnow presentation do the work.

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