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Bear's Hex

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

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

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  • Hook Dai-Riki 710, 6
  • Thread Yellow GSP 75

Materials

  • Tail Natural moose body hair
  • Underbody Yellow bucktail
  • Body Natural deer hair
  • Wing White calf tail
  • Hackle 1 Grizzly and 1 Coachman Brown Neck Hackle

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, wrap the shank with lead-free wire, and bind it down with thread.
  2. At the bend tie in a short tan ostrich or marabou tail for the tapered gill tips, and bind in the wire rib.
  3. Dub a soft, shaggy tan-amber abdomen over the back two-thirds and pick the sides out heavily to suggest the feathery gills.
  4. Counter-wrap the rib in 6-7 open turns to segment the abdomen and snip.
  5. Tie in a dark turkey wingcase pointing rearward and dub a fuzzy tan thorax.
  6. Fold the wingcase forward, bind it, and wind 1-2 turns of soft partridge as sprawling legs.
  7. Build a small head and whip finish.

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