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Brent's Floating Rib Midge

Midge · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Sport Fishing on the Fly dressing

  • Hook Scud, 12-18
  • Thread Copper Nano Silk 12/0

Materials

  • Body 12/0 Copper Nano Silk
  • Rib Anti-Static Bag
  • Gills White antron
  • Thorax Peacock herl
  • UV Coating Solarez

How to tie it

  1. Start the 12/0 Copper Nano Silk and tie in a narrow strip of Anti-Static Bag, binding it around the corner of the bend.
  2. Build a thin, tapered body with the thread alone, working up and down the shank. Keep the body thin; the flat thread takes time but lays smooth.
  3. Put a thin coat of Solarez over the thread body before ribbing and cure it. This underbody coat is what the rib beds into.
  4. Wrap the Anti-Static Bag forward in open turns, pulling each wrap down slightly into the coating so it does not move. Tie off. The rib now sits raised on top of the body instead of lying flat.
  5. Apply a second very thin coat of Solarez over the top and cure it so the rib stays durable.
  6. Tie in a small tuft of White Antron at the head for the gills and bind it down.
  7. Tie in a Peacock Herl by the butt, wrap the thorax behind the gills, and tie off.
  8. Whip finish.

Other versions

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