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Deschutes Madness

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Up-eye salmon/steelhead hook, 1/0-4
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Tag Silver metal tape (Fine oval tinsel)
  • Tail Purple arctic fox (Hackle fibers or a few strands over golden pheasant crest)
  • Body Hot pink and purple material (Floss (rear) with purple/pink ostrich herl front)
  • Rib Silver metal tape (Oval tinsel)
  • Hackle Purple hackle (1 feather, palmered over front / as collar)
  • Wing Purple over pink (Marabou or dyed hackle)
  • Cheeks Jungle cock (1 pair (optional))

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread at the bend. Lay a short silver oval tag.
  2. Tie in a purple tail and the silver rib.
  3. Wrap a hot-pink floss body over the rear two-thirds, keeping it smooth, then counter-rib with 5 open turns of silver.
  4. At the front third, twist purple and pink ostrich herl together and wind a fuzzy, mobile forward section. This herl front is what gives the fly its lively pulse in the swing.
  5. Wind a purple hackle as a soft collar and sweep the fibers back.
  6. Tie in a purple-over-pink marabou or hackle wing reaching to the tail, and add jungle cock cheeks if desired.
  7. Build a neat head, whip finish, and cement.

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