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Crazy Charlie Tailing

Shrimp · Bonefish · Permit · Redfish · Sea Trout · Snook · Intermediate · 3 versions

InTheRiffle dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 811s, 4-08
  • Thread Pink UTC 140

Materials

  • Eyes Small to Medium Beadchain Eyes
  • Wing Pink Calf Tail
  • Flash Medium or Large Pearl Tinsel
  • Body Clear or Pink Medium D-Rib

How to tie it

  1. Start the Pink UTC 140 thread, matched to the wing colour, and secure the Small to Medium Beadchain Eyes into place.
  2. Tie in the Clear or Pink Medium D-Rib along the side of the hook and bind it back to the bend.
  3. Tie in the Medium or Large Pearl Tinsel along the side, bind it back to the D-Rib, then bring the thread forward past the bead chain.
  4. Wrap the pearl tinsel forward into a smooth body, back, and forward again to build it up; take a few wraps around the eyes, capture and trim.
  5. Wrap the D-Rib forward over the tinsel, nice and even, so the pearl shines through; a couple of wraps around the eyes, tie off and trim.
  6. Flip the fly over. Pull a clump of Pink Calf Tail no more than half a pencil in diameter, tips as even as you can get them, and tie it in at the front so it extends just a little past the shank, with tight wraps because calf tail wants to pull out. Keep it sparse.
  7. Whip finish, then push the calf tail up and fluff it out; the fly rides hook up.
  8. Add a drop of Zap-A-Gap to the head and the eyes.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Classic Recipe, Fischer's Flies.

Tying videos

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