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20 Incher

Nymph · Trout · Advanced · 7 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

6 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, Tungsten Jigged.

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