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Brightside Streamer

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Jig hook, 12
  • Thread White 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Silver tungsten bead (1, 4.0mm)
  • Tail White uni stretch (micro rabbit zonker strip)
  • Body White pearl material (seal-type dubbing with pearl flash)
  • Hot spot Fl. sunburst orange (pinch of dubbing behind bead)

How to tie it

  1. Seat the silver tungsten bead against the eye of the jig hook, mount it, and start thread.
  2. At the bend tie in a white micro rabbit strip tail about one shank length long.
  3. Dub a shaggy white-pearl body forward, leaving room behind the bead, and pick it out for movement.
  4. Twist a pinch of fluorescent orange dubbing on the thread and make a couple of turns as a hot spot right behind the bead.
  5. Whip finish behind the bead and add a drop of cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

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