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Dy's Silver Bead Buggy Prince

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Standard nymph hook, 12-16
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Silver bead (1, sized to hook)
  • Goose biots Brown goose biots (2 (tail))
  • Peacock herl Natural peacock herl (3-4 strands (body))
  • Flat tinsel Gold oval tinsel (fine, for rib)
  • Goose biots White goose biots (2 (wing))
  • Hen hackle Brown hen hackle (1 (collar))

How to tie it

  1. Slide a silver bead to the eye and mount the hook in the vise.
  2. Start the thread and tie in two brown goose biots at the bend, splayed as a forked tail.
  3. Tie in the fine gold tinsel for the rib.
  4. Tie in peacock herl and wind a chunky body to just behind the bead; secure.
  5. Rib forward with the gold tinsel in open turns; secure and trim.
  6. Tie in two white goose biots flat over the back as a V-wing behind the bead.
  7. Wind one or two turns of brown hen hackle as a collar and sweep the fibres back.
  8. Whip finish behind the bead.

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