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Barry's Carp Bitter

Streamer · Carp · Advanced · 3 versions

As tied by InTheRiffle

  • Hook Gamakatsu SL45, 4
  • Thread Orange UTC 140

Materials

  • Eyes Medium black bead chain
  • Legs Orange barred speckled Crazy Legs or Sili Legs
  • Tail Brown or orange grizzly marabou
  • Body Cream and orange angora goat dubbing (mango: 2 parts cream to 1 part hot orange)
  • Collar Tan or brown grizzly soft hackle

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and tie in a pair of medium black bead chain eyes with figure-eights, leaving a little room behind the hook eye.
  2. Take the thread back to the bend.
  3. Tie in a tail of grizzly marabou, about the length of the straight part of the shank, and trim the excess.
  4. Lash a pair of orange barred speckled Crazy Legs by their middles to one side, then pull the other half down to the opposite side and secure it; trim them to about twice the tail length.
  5. Mix two parts cream angora goat dubbing with one part hot orange, apply it to the thread (wax or wet fingers, not a dubbing loop) and dub a bulky body up to about the hook point.
  6. Tie in a tan grizzly soft hackle by the tip, trim the excess, wrap it with the fibres swept back, and tie it off.
  7. Pull the fibres back and wrap up against them a little.
  8. Dub the head with the same dubbing on the thread, not a loop, wrapping around the eyes and right up to the hook eye.
  9. Whip finish at the eye of the hook and, if wanted, rough the dubbing slightly with a dubbing brush.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Olive version as tied by Samuel Stone, Olive version as tied by AvidMax.

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