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Antonio's Adult

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry fly (TMC 900BL / 100SP-BL), 12-18
  • Thread Gray 18/0

Materials

  • Tail Coq de Leon fibers (Small bunch)
  • Rib Extra-small copper wire (1 strand)
  • Abdomen/thorax Natural gray CDC fiber dubbing (Thin)
  • Sighter Fire-orange Fluoro Fibre (Few strands)
  • Wing Natural gray CDC fibers (1 clump)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, start thread, and run it to the bend.
  2. Tie in a small bunch of Coq de Leon fibers as a tail, splayed about a shank length long.
  3. Bind in the copper wire, then spin loose CDC fluff onto the thread as dubbing and wrap a slim abdomen to the 60% mark.
  4. Counter-wrap the wire rib forward in 5-6 turns for segmentation and durability; snip.
  5. Stack a clump of natural gray CDC upright as a wing at the 65% mark, then bind a few fire-orange Fluoro Fibre strands in front as a low sighter.
  6. Dub a small CDC thorax around the wing base, figure-8ing to stand the wing up.
  7. Whip finish at the eye and trim the sighter to a short stub.

Other versions

1 more in the app: PMD.

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