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20 Incher

Nymph · Trout · Advanced · 14 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 3x long nymph, 4-10
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Bead Gold, optional bead (1)
  • Tail Brown goose biots (split)
  • Rib Gold wire (spiral)
  • Abdomen Peacock herl (full)
  • Wingcase Turkey tail w/ flash (folded)
  • Thorax Hare's ear (rough)
  • Legs Hen back (each side)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the gold bead to the eye (if used), mount the hook, and start thread behind the bead. Wrap a thread base back to the bend.
  2. Split a pair of brown goose biots around the shank tip so they flare into a V one shank length long. The splay mimics a stonefly's spread tails.
  3. Catch in the gold wire at the tail base, then tie in 3-4 peacock herls by their tips.
  4. Wrap the herl forward as a fat abdomen to the 60% mark and tie off. Counter-wrap the gold wire forward in 5-6 open spirals to protect the fragile herl, then helicopter off the excess.
  5. Tie in a slip of turkey tail (flash side down) pointing over the eye, to be pulled back later as the wingcase.
  6. Dub a rough, spiky hare's ear thorax from the wingcase tie-in up to just behind the bead.
  7. Fold the turkey slip forward over the thorax and bind it down as the wingcase, shiny side up.
  8. Tie in a hen back feather each side of the thorax as legs, tips sweeping back to the hook point.
  9. Build a small head, whip finish, and cement.

Other versions

13 more in the app: Charlie Craven Step-by-Step, Fly Fish Food Tie (Flylords recipe), Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 3, Jigged Tungsten, Tungsten, Twenty Bead, Tungsten Jigged, Twenty, Twenty Rubber Legs, Twenty TB, Twenty Beadhead.

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