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Conehead Crystal Bugger Rubber Legs

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 3XL streamer hook, 4-10
  • Thread Black 140 denier

Materials

  • Cone Gold conehead (1, sized to hook)
  • Tail Olive marabou (one plume)
  • Flash Pearl/olive Krystal Flash (8 strands)
  • Body Olive crystal chenille (one strand)
  • Hackle Grizzly saddle (1 feather)
  • Legs Barred olive rubber legs (2-3 pairs)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the gold cone to the eye and mount the hook. Start thread behind the cone and run it to the bend.
  2. Tie in an olive marabou tail one shank length long, with several strands of crystal flash to each side.
  3. Bind in the grizzly hackle by the tip and the crystal chenille at the bend.
  4. Wrap the crystal chenille forward to just behind the cone and tie off.
  5. Palmer the hackle forward over the body in 5-6 evenly spaced turns, then tie off behind the cone.
  6. Add two or three pairs of barred rubber legs splayed along the sides.
  7. Build a thread collar behind the cone, whip finish, and cement.

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