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Big Rodney

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Daiichi 2161 (or 2151)

Materials

  • Flat silver tinsel (tag)
  • Oval tinsel Gold/silver oval tinsel (Danville #12 medium (body underwrap))
  • Golden pheasant tippets Dyed purple golden pheasant tippets (tail)
  • Floss Fluorescent hot pink floss (butt)
  • Fine oval tinsel / wire (rib)
  • Ice Dub UV purple ice dub (body)
  • Schlappen Fluorescent pink schlappen (hackle)

How to tie it

  1. Put a Daiichi 2161 in the vise and run thread from the hook-return back to the point.
  2. Wrap the whole hook with medium (Danville #12) oval tinsel in barely-touching turns to add body; at the bend take three touching turns of flat silver tinsel and return forward, forming a tag from the barb to the hook point, then trim.
  3. Tie in a golden-pheasant-tippet tail dyed purple at the hook point, rolled on top of the shank and extending to the bend; bind the butts smooth.
  4. For the butt, tie in fluorescent hot-pink floss leaving a long tag pointing back over the top; wrap the floss back and forward to build a smooth butt, then pull the reserved tag forward over the top and tie it down (this keeps the floss from stripping back when a fish bites).
  5. Tie in a fine oval-tinsel/wire rib along the bottom and run the thread to the front.
  6. Build a body of UV-purple Ice Dub in a waxed dubbing loop, spun and wound forward to the hook-return, and tie off.
  7. Counter-wrap the rib forward through the body in even turns and tie off; trim.
  8. Tie in and wind a fluorescent-pink schlappen hackle as a collar, then add the wing, whip finish and cement (the clip ends as the wing is started).

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