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CdC Hot Spot PT

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Barbless jig hook, 12-16
  • Thread Brown-olive (hot-spot color at head) 70-100 denier

Materials

  • Bead Slotted tungsten (copper or gold), oversized (1)
  • Tail Coq de Leon or pheasant tail fibers (small bunch)
  • Abdomen Pheasant tail fibers (small bunch)
  • Rib Copper or gold wire (1 length)
  • Thorax Peacock herl or copper Ice Dub (as needed)
  • Collar/hot spot Hot orange (or pink) CDC and/or thread (1-2 feathers)

How to tie it

  1. Slide an oversized slotted tungsten bead onto the jig hook so it sits against the eye. The heavy bead gets the fly down fast and gives the jig its head-down swim.
  2. Start thread behind the bead, run to the bend and tie in a small bunch of coq de Leon or pheasant tail fibers for the tail.
  3. Tie in the wire rib, then a bunch of pheasant tail fibers, and wrap them forward to form a slim abdomen; counter-rib the wire in 4-5 open turns for durability.
  4. Build a peacock herl or copper Ice Dub thorax just behind the bead.
  5. Tie in a hot orange CDC feather by the tip and take one or two wraps as a mobile collar right behind the bead, OR simply build a hot-orange thread hot spot; sweep the CDC back.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead and add a tiny drop of cement.
  7. The CDC collar traps air bubbles and pulses like emerging legs, while the fluorescent hot spot is the strike trigger.

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