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Cormorant

Wet Fly · Trout · Beginner · 4 versions

Classic Recipe

• Hook Standard wet, 10-14
• Thread Black 8/0

Materials

• Wing Black marabou, tied flat back (sparse)
• Body Black thread or holographic tinsel (slim)
• Cheeks Jungle cock or sub (optional)

How to tie it

1. Slim body
2. Sparse marabou wing laid low over the top
3. Whip finish

Other versions

3 more in the app: Red Hot Spot UV, Red, UV.

Tying videos

• Cormorant — Pearly Cormorant tutorial (YouTube)
• Cormorant — Mak (Black Holographic Cormorant) (YouTube)
• Cormorant — Competition Special Cormorant tutorial (YouTube)
• Cormorant — MF Fly Tying (YouTube)
• Cormorant — IRISH/SCOTTISH FISHING & FLY TYING (YouTube)
• Cormorant — Tim Joyce Flyfishing-Essex (YouTube)
• Cormorant — Steve Cullen Fly Fishing & Fly Tying (YouTube)
• Cormorant — Lindsay Simpson Fly Fishing (YouTube)

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