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Biot Sparkle

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook (TMC 100), 14-20
  • Thread To match body 8/0

Materials

  • Shuck Amber/rusty Z-Lon or sparkle yarn (short tuft)
  • Abdomen Turkey biot (color to match hatch) (1)
  • Wing Coastal deer or fine elk hair, fanned 180 deg (small clump)
  • Thorax Superfine dubbing to match (as needed)

How to tie it

  1. Tie in a short sparkle-yarn shuck at the bend to imitate the trailing nymphal husk; this trailing shuck is the pattern's main trigger for selective fish.
  2. Tie in a turkey biot and wrap it forward over the rear two-thirds to form a crisply segmented abdomen.
  3. Stack a small clump of deer or elk hair and tie it in as an upright wing at the front third, then fan it across the top to about 180 degrees like a Comparadun/sparkle-dun wing.
  4. Dub a slim thorax fore and aft of the wing base to lock it upright.
  5. Whip finish and cement at the eye.

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