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Filthy Bastard

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL-3XL nymph hook, 8
  • Thread Black 70 denier

Materials

  • Bead Black/copper bead (tungsten, sized to hook)
  • Weight Lead (few wraps behind bead)
  • Tail Brown permanent marker (2 goose biots, split)
  • Butt Red buzzer wrap (thread or dubbing hotspot)
  • Body Brown/black material (shaggy dubbing)
  • Rib Copper thorax stripe (fine wire)
  • Legs Barred rubber legs (rubber legs, 2 pairs)
  • Thorax Brown/black material (shaggy dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a tungsten bead onto a 3XL nymph hook and add a few wraps of lead behind it for a fast sink.
  2. Start thread at the bend and tie in two brown goose-biot tails, splayed short.
  3. Build a bright red butt of thread or dubbing at the very rear as a hotspot. This is what draws the eye.
  4. Tie in fine wire, then dub a shaggy brown-black body forward to the 60% mark.
  5. Counter-rib the wire forward in 5-6 open turns and tie off.
  6. Figure-8 two pairs of barred rubber legs at the thorax, splayed fore and aft.
  7. Dub a fat, buggy thorax around the legs up to the bead, whip finish, and pick it out shaggy.

Tying videos

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