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Bread Line Emerger

Dry Fly · Emerger · Trout · Beginner · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 1X-long dry/emerger hook (Dai-Riki #300), 14-18
  • Thread Yellow, wood duck or light brown 70 denier

Materials

  • Trailing shuck Golden brown Antron/Zelon yarn (short tuft)
  • Body Stripped turkey biot (amber, to match natural) (1 biot)
  • Thorax Ginger rabbit dubbing (small pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread and tie in a short tuft of golden-brown Antron at the bend as a trailing shuck (the fly rides low, hanging in the film like an emerger climbing out of its nymphal skin).
  2. Strip a single turkey biot from the stem and tie it in; wind it forward in slightly overlapping turns to form a neatly segmented abdomen over the rear two-thirds.
  3. Dub a small ginger rabbit-fur thorax in front of the abdomen.
  4. Build a small thread head, whip finish and add a tiny drop of cement.
  5. Fish it in the surface film. Do not overdress it with floatant on the shuck so the rear hangs down.

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