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Brent's Stillwater Fullback Nymph

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Gamakatsu 2X-long nymph, 12
  • Thread Dark olive 8/0

Materials

  • Semperfli Sparkle Dubbing Light olive sparkle dubbing (Body)
  • Mallard flank dyed wood duck Wood duck (1 feather (shellback and tail))
  • Metz Microbarb dry-fly saddle hackle Burnt orange (1 small feather (palmered legs))
  • Head cement Clear head cement (Rear tie-off)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Dub a slightly buggy body of light olive sparkle dubbing from the bend to just behind the eye, a touch thicker at the front, and leave the thread at the front.
  3. Prepare a wood-duck-dyed mallard flank feather with straight, even tips and tie it in at the front, dull side up, measured so it can reach back over the whole body with a generous tail extending beyond the bend.
  4. Tie in a small burnt orange dry-fly hackle at the eye, good side forward.
  5. Palmer the hackle back to the bend in open turns, wrapping the thread rearward together with it so the smooth-stemmed hackle can't slip.
  6. Trim the hackle flat along the top of the body.
  7. Pull the mallard flank back over the top as a full shellback, gather it slightly by pulling back; it needn't be perfectly flat. And tie it down above the barb point, the tips forming the tail.
  8. Whip finish at the rear tie-down and put a dab of cement on it.
  9. Trim the remaining hackle from the sides so the legs come off the bottom only.

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