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Crime Scene

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 1XL dry / emerger (TMC 100 or 2487), 14-18
  • Thread Pale olive 8/0

Materials

  • Trailing shuck Amber vinyl rib medium (Zelon or marabou fibers)
  • Abdomen PMD olive (Fine dubbing)
  • Wing/post Dun microfibetts (CDC tuft)
  • Flotation Gray flotation (Thin foam strip (optional))
  • Hackle Grizzly hackle (One feather, stacked)
  • Thorax PMD olive (Dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread; tie in a short amber Zelon trailing shuck at the bend to suggest the stuck nymphal skin.
  2. Dub a slim, tapered abdomen forward to the 60% mark.
  3. Tie in an upright CDC wing tuft (and a thin foam strip over it if you want extra float).
  4. Wind and stack the grizzly hackle through the thorax in Quigley's stacked-hackle style, sweeping fibers rearward.
  5. Dub a compact thorax over the hackle base.
  6. Whip finish behind the eye.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Caddis.

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