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CDC Biot Spinner

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook standard dry-fly hook (e.g. TMC 100 or GRT dry), 14-18
  • Thread Rusty brown 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

  • Tail Split microfibetts, dun (6 fibers)
  • Abdomen Turkey biot, rusty brown (color to match) (1)
  • Underwing CDC plume, light dun (2 feathers)
  • Overwing Krystal Organza + poly yarn, dun (small clump each)
  • Thorax Superfine dry-fly dubbing, rusty brown (1 pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Tie in a small bunch of microfibetts at the bend and split them into a tail about one and a half shank lengths long to balance the spinner flush on the film.
  2. Tie in the turkey biot by the tip with the notched (solid) edge facing up, add a drop of cement on the shank, and wrap forward to the 65% mark for a clean segmented abdomen. Why: a biot body doesn't swell when wet, so it holds a slim spinner profile.
  3. Tie in two CDC plumes plus a pinch of Krystal Organza and a strand of poly yarn about two eye-widths back from the eye, all pointing forward.
  4. Figure-eight the CDC/Organza/poly out flat to each side as spent wings.
  5. Dub a slim rusty-brown thorax with figure-eight wraps to lock the wings, and whip finish behind the eye.

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