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Cheech's Sus

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook light wire grub/emerger hook, 14-18
• Thread Black 70 denier

Materials

• Tail Black ostrich herl (hen back or pheasant tail fibers)
• Rib Silver metal tape (small wire)
• Abdomen Black ostrich herl (dry-fly dubbing)
• Hot spot Red buzzer wrap (dubbing)
• Post Red buzzer wrap (flex-floss loop)
• Hackle Grizzly hackle (one feather, stacked)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start black thread, wrapping a base back to the bend.
2. Tie in a short black fiber tail and a length of small silver wire for the rib.
3. Dub a slim black abdomen forward to the 60% mark, then counter-wrap the wire in 4-5 open turns and tie off.
4. Tie in a loop of red flex-floss standing up as a post, and wind a grizzly hackle up the post and back down (hackle-stacker style).
5. Add a touch of red dubbing at the front as a hot spot, then fold the flex-floss loop with its stacked hackle forward over the thorax.
6. Bind the loop down behind the eye so the hackle fibers splay flat over the top, then whip finish and cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

• Cheech's Sus — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Cheech's Sus — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Cheech's Sus — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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