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Dubbing Emerger

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: Contested against a published dressing: The article's own summary is the contradiction: the fly is "basically hook, bead, thread and dubbing. That's it." We store three materials it does not have — a brown Antron trailing shuck, a fine gold wire rib, and a dun CDC or Antron wing bud — and we do not store the brass bead that the source… Source: Fly Fish Food — "Dubbing Emerger" (fly tying tutorial, December 2020) — https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/fly-tying-tutorials/dubbing-emerger

Reference Recipe

  • Hook curved emerger/scud, 16-20
  • Thread olive or brown 70 denier

Materials

  • Trailing shuck Brown permanent marker (antron, short)
  • Abdomen Olive/brown buggerbou mini barred (dubbing, slim)
  • Rib Gold middle (fine wire)
  • Thorax Darker olive/brown (dubbing)
  • Wing bud Dun microfibetts (CDC or antron)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread.
  2. Tie in a short, sparse brown antron shuck at the bend, half a shank long.
  3. Dub a slim, tapered abdomen forward to the 65% mark using half the dubbing you think.
  4. Counter-rib with 4-5 turns of fine gold wire and break it off.
  5. Dub a fuller, darker thorax and pull a short CDC wing bud over the top.
  6. Whip finish at the eye and cement.

Other versions

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