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Emerger Wet

Emerger · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Wet-fly/soft-hackle hook, #12-#16
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Shuck/Tail Amber vinyl rib medium (Sparse Antron wisp (optional))
  • Abdomen Hare's ear brown (Rough dubbing)
  • Rib Fine gold (Wire, 4-5 turns)
  • Thorax Peacock ice dub (1-2 herls)
  • Hackle Brown partridge (1 soft feather, 1-2 turns)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread at the bend.
  2. Tie in a short, sparse amber shuck, then bind in the gold wire.
  3. Dub a tapered hare's ear abdomen forward to the 65% mark.
  4. Counter-wrap the wire in 4-5 open turns and tie off.
  5. Twist a peacock herl or two into a short thorax against the wire tie-off.
  6. Tie in a partridge feather by the tip and take one or two soft turns as a swept-back collar, then whip finish at the eye.

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