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Beady Gonzalez

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Firehole Outdoors 718 (barbless jig/nymph), 20-24
  • Thread White Semperfli Nanosilk

Materials

  • UTC monofilament Black mono or thread (rib)
  • Uni-Mylar flash Peacock green and orange herl
  • Paintbrush bristle (2 fibers (tails))
  • Cashmere monkey hair (10 strands (legs))
  • UV resin (Deer Creek Diamond Fine)
  • Black marker

How to tie it

  1. Put a Firehole 718 (#20-24) in the vise and start white Semperfli Nanosilk behind the eye.
  2. Tie in two paintbrush-bristle tail fibers about a hook-gap long on top of the shank (an oval/pinch wrap locks them on top).
  3. Tie in a strand of black UTC monofilament on the near side for the rib, and advance the thread forward.
  4. Tie in a length of Uni-Mylar flash along both sides of the shank running rearward, arranged so green faces one way and orange shows when the material is pulled forward.
  5. Wind a thin, flat thread body, then spiral the mono rib forward over the flash body and tie it off; whip finish the body.
  6. Coat the flashed body with UV resin, pinching the sides to sink it into the thread wraps for a ribbed look, and cure.
  7. Build a small, flat white Nanosilk thorax.
  8. Tie in ten strands of cashmere monkey hair across the top of the thorax and split them five to a side for legs.
  9. Whip finish a small head, color the top of the fly with a black marker, add a touch of UV resin over the top, and cure.

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