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Cascade

Salmon/Steelhead · Salmon · Steelhead · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

• Hook Salmon double or single, 6-12
• Thread Silver 8/0

Materials

• Tail Golden pheasant crest (upswept)
• Body Flat silver tinsel (smooth)
• Rib Oval silver tinsel (spiral)
• Wing Yellow bucktail (sparse)
• Hackle Blue, then orange (double collar)

How to tie it

1. Mount hook, tie in golden pheasant crest tail
2. Wrap flat silver body
3. Spiral oval tinsel rib
4. Tie in yellow bucktail wing
5. Wrap blue hackle, then orange hackle
6. Whip finish

Tying videos

• Cascade — Davie McPhail (YouTube)

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