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Balanced Callibungus

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

SoggySleeves dressing

  • Hook Firehole Sticks 511 1XL 2XG, 8
  • Thread Veevus Olive 16/0

Materials

  • Bead Fulling Mill 4.2 mm black nickel tungsten
  • Tail Hairline Blood Quill Marabou Olive and White
  • Flash Flashabou Accent or Crystal Flash
  • Body Olive Ice Dub, Olive Brown Bruiser Blend, Minnow Belly White Ice Dub
  • Eyes 3.0 mm Fish Skull Living Eyes Ice
  • Resin Solarrez Bone-Dry

How to tie it

  1. Slide the bead onto the balance pin and mount the hook.
  2. Lash the pin along the shank with the bead reaching one bead width past the eye and glue it. The fly must ride level to mimic a suspended callibaetis nymph.
  3. At the bend tie in a short speckled tail half a shank long and bind in fine copper wire.
  4. Dub a slim tan-gray abdomen two-thirds of the way to the bead, then rib it with 4-5 open wire turns.
  5. Tie in a pheasant-tail wingcase, dub a slightly fatter thorax to the bead, and pull the wingcase over.
  6. Add a sparse partridge collar swept back for legs, then whip finish behind the bead.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

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