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Callibaetis Foam Floating Nymph

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook standard dry/nymph, 14-16
• Thread gray 8/0

Materials

• Tail Wood duck (few fibers)
• Abdomen Gray-brown material (dubbing)
• Wingcase Gray razor foam mm (thin foam strip)
• Legs Brown silly legs nymph size (partridge fibers each side)
• Thorax Gray-brown material (dubbing)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook, start thread, and run to the bend.
2. Tie in a short wood duck fiber tail, about half a shank.
3. Dub a slim gray-brown abdomen to the 60% mark.
4. Tie in a strip of gray foam at the 60% mark to fold forward as a floating wingcase. The foam bubble hangs the nymph right in the film.
5. Tie in a few partridge fibers on each side as legs.
6. Dub a thorax, pull the foam over as a wingcase, and tie it down behind the eye.
7. Whip finish.

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