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Czech Coyote

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · Advanced · 2 versions

Savage Flies dressing

  • Hook curved shank, 14-18
  • Thread Red, or any bright color

Materials

  • Bead Tungsten, to match hook size
  • Tail Pheasant tail fibers
  • Rib Silver wire
  • Body Coyote tail and acrylic blend dubbing
  • Thorax White ice dub

How to tie it

  1. Slide the Tungsten bead to the eye and take about 10 wraps of 0.015" lead wire, pushing them up into the back of the bead.
  2. Start the red thread behind the lead, build a dam against it, take a few wraps over it and run the thread back to where the body will start.
  3. At the rear, build a band about five thread-widths wide, wrapping back and then over itself, for a red hot spot butt.
  4. Tie in about four Pheasant tail fibers just in front of the red band as a short tail, and use the butts to level the shank behind the lead.
  5. Tie in the Silver wire rib at the rear.
  6. Wax the thread and dub the Coyote tail and acrylic blend dubbing on thinly, keeping the body sleek, and wrap forward to about one eye-length behind the bead.
  7. Rib the Silver wire forward in open turns to lock the fuzzy body down and keep the profile slim. Tie off and remove the wire.
  8. Dub a short thorax of White ice dub about as thick as the bead, then build a small flat band of red thread behind the bead as a front hot spot and whip finish.
  9. Fluff the body out lightly and trim any long strays so the fly stays slim.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Tyer Recipe.

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