The Culture Night by Yuri Shumakov

I had the privilege to meet, fishing and tying flies with Yuri Shumakov in the late 1900's and early 2000's. Yuri was one of the most creative and passionate fly tier that I ever have met. All his flies, every detail on them was carefully thought through. Only the best materials were used and he himself took up a number of materials such an amazing goat hair, Serebrjanka, and a separate tube system that included the long-range tubes. He was as good at fishing for sea trout for rainbow trout and salmon in all types of water.
Culture Night is a pattern that he developed by opportunity. During the Cultural night, a night event in culture characters in Lund, the city that Yuri lived in, in southern Sweden. He found some black shiny wool yarn and the day after that the culture night overnight was born. An excellent fly for coastal trout were created. I tied lots of them and used them frequently with great success. Even rainbow trout and sea trout in rivers fell for it. The original was tied with big eyes of synthetic pearl beads but to get the weight in them I also tied different variations with chain eyes and dumbbell eyes.

Yuri died sadly to soon in the mid-2000s while fishing on the Kola Peninsula river.

Bob Kenley has written a very readable article on the website Rackelhanen about Yuri on http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10316.htm

Material

Hook: Mustad streamer Signature Saltwater S74SZ Size 6 or 8
Thread:  Black

Eye / Weight: Pearl beads or nickel/silver chain eyes or even dumbbell eyes if you want a sinkbomb.

Tail: Fluo orange or red wool yarn.

Body: Black wool yarn

Body hackle: 3 orange red golden pheasant body feather/hackle
Head:Black wool yarn
Flash: 2 strands of mirage flash

1. Start with attaching the thread on the middle of the hook shank 

2. Then take 2 or 3 (depending on how thick the woolyarn are) pieces of fluo orange or fluo red wool yarn and tie them in on top of the hook shank, like in the picture.

3. Now, take one of the body feathers /hackles from the golden pheasant and stroke the fibers down the steam of the feather wile holding the tip of the feather. You should now have the fibers of the feather tip separated so that you can tie it in where the tail starts. 

4. Take the feather steam with the hacklepliers and wind the feather forward in touching turns while you at the same time stroke the feather fiber backwards.
Attach the feather/hackle with the thread and cut of the accessed material. To get the sloping style of the hackle you may have to wind a couple of rounds with the thread around the base of the hackle while you stroke the fibers backwards.

5. Attach the black wool yarn

6.Wind the black wool yarn forward to the middle of the hook shank. Attach it and cut of the rest.
Repeat the steps in 4. for creating the middle boody hackle.

7. Attach a new strand of the black wool yarn 

8. Wind a frontboody. Attach and cut of the wool yarn. Its important that you leave about 3-4 mm mm free for the fronthackle and the head and the eyes.  

9. Tie in the fronthackle.

10. Attach the eyes. I varies the eyes depending if i want a flie that should sink faster, then i use the chaineyes or even dumbbell eyes. But mostly i prefer to fish this flie as light as possible, especially if i use it for fishing after seatrout from the coast. Don´t forget to secure the eyes with a drop of superglue.

11. Attach 2 strands of mirage flash. The length of them should exceed just behind the tail and the hackle.

12. Now we should finish the flie whit the head. Attach the black wool yarn just in fron of the fronthackle. Wind the thread in front of the eyes. 

13. Wind the woolyarn in figures of eight around the eyes. Attach it and cut of the woolyarn and then finish the flie with a couple of whip finish knots. Cut of and varnish.

You now have a rely good flies for chasing seatrout.