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Deceiver

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard saltwater hook, 2/0-2
  • Thread White 3/0

Materials

  • Tail White uni stretch (4-6 saddle hackles, paired convex-out)
  • Tail Flash Pearl flashabou (A few strands Flashabou each side)
  • Collar/Body White uni stretch (Bucktail, 360 degrees around shank)
  • Topping Green or blue material (Peacock herl or dyed bucktail)
  • Throat Red buzzer wrap (Short pinch of red bucktail (optional gill))
  • Eyes Silver/black material (Stick-on, epoxied (optional))

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and lay a thread base along the rear third of the shank.
  2. Pair the saddle hackles convex sides out, 2-3 per side, and bind them at the rear as a tail about a shank-and-a-half long. Add a few strands of pearl flash each side.
  3. The trick to a Deceiver is keeping the wing back here, not up front, so it never fouls the tail.
  4. Advance the thread and tie a collar of white bucktail all the way around the shank, sweeping back to hide the tie-in.
  5. Add a short red throat for the gill, then top with a sparse veil of green or blue bucktail or peacock herl.
  6. Build a tapered head, whip finish, and coat with head cement. Add stick-on eyes and a drop of epoxy if desired.

Other versions

5 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 3, Pike, Striper.

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