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Crystal Stimulator Rubber Legs Kaufmann's

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook 3XL dry fly hook (TMC 200R style), 6-12
  • Thread Fluorescent orange 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Natural elk hair (1 clump)
  • Abdomen Orange permanent marker (crystal/sparkle dubbing)
  • Body hackle Furnace or brown hackle (1, palmered)
  • Legs Barred tan/brown rubber (2 pr)
  • Wing Natural elk hair (1 clump)
  • Thorax Amber/gold material (crystal dubbing)
  • Front hackle Grizzly hackle (1)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the long-shank hook and start orange thread at the bend.
  2. Bind a stacked elk-hair tail about half a shank long.
  3. Tie in a furnace hackle by the tip, dub a crystal orange abdomen over the rear two-thirds, then palmer the hackle forward in 6-7 turns and tie off at the 65% mark.
  4. Bind a full elk-hair downwing over the body, tips just past the bend, butts trimmed.
  5. Figure-8 a pair of rubber legs on each side at the thorax so two legs kick forward and two back.
  6. Tie in the grizzly front hackle, dub a short gold crystal thorax around the legs to the eye, then wind the hackle through in 4-5 turns.
  7. Tie off, build a small head, whip finish and cement.

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