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Burkus Flavilinea Cripple

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

• Hook standard/emerger dry-fly hook (e.g. TMC 100 or 2487), 12-14
• Thread Olive-dun 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

• Trailing shuck Brown Antron or Zelon (small clump)
• Abdomen Olive-brown turkey biot or Superfine dubbing (1)
• Wing Dun CDC or poly yarn (1 clump)
• Hackle Grizzly dyed olive-dun hackle (1 feather)
• Thorax Olive-brown Superfine dubbing (1 pinch)

How to tie it

1. Tie in a brown Antron shuck at the bend, about one shank length, to trail in the film.
2. Wrap a segmented olive-brown biot abdomen to the 60% mark.
3. Tie in a dun CDC or poly wing tuft upright at the 65% mark.
4. Wind a grizzly-dun hackle 3-4 turns and trim the underside flat so the buggy fly rides low in the surface.
5. Dub an olive-brown thorax and whip finish.

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