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Brigs Tiny Turtle Drake

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Jig nymph hook, 12
  • Thread Pale olive 12/0

Materials

  • Bead Old gold slotted tungsten (1, 3.8mm)
  • Tail Olive ostrich herl (ringneck pheasant tail fibers)
  • Body Dirty dark olive (dirty bug yarn)
  • Rib Sculpin olive (medium ultra wire)
  • Ecdysial line Fl. white ecdysial line (flex-floss)

How to tie it

  1. Seat the old gold slotted bead against the eye of the jig hook, mount it, and start thread.
  2. At the bend tie in a short pheasant tail tail, a bit shorter than one shank length.
  3. Bind in the sculpin olive wire rib and a strand of fluorescent white flex-floss, leaving both hanging at the bend.
  4. Dub or wrap the dirty olive bug yarn forward into a slim tapered body, stopping behind the bead.
  5. Lay the white flex-floss up the top of the abdomen as an ecdysial (split-back) line, then counter-wrap the wire rib forward over it in 5-6 turns to segment and lock it.
  6. Tie off and helicopter the wire to break it, build a small thread collar, whip finish, and cement.

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