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Fry Candy

Streamer · Largemouth Bass · Smallmouth Bass · Panfish · Intermediate · 1 version

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Savage Flies dressing

  • Hook dry fly, 12-14
  • Thread Black

Materials

  • Tail Moose body hair
  • Body Dirty yellow dubbing
  • Wing White calftail
  • Hackle Grizzly and brown hackle

How to tie it

  1. Put a TMC 300 (#8-10, 6XL) hook in the vise, slide a small cone head to the eye, and take about 15 wraps of.025 lead wire up to the back of the cone to seat it.
  2. Start white thread, wrap back over the lead to the bend and forward again, leaving the thread just behind the cone.
  3. Tie in a full shad-gray marabou quill as a tail at the bend and bind the butt forward.
  4. Tie in a length of small gray (pearl) Palmer Chenille at the bend, then wind the thread up behind the cone.
  5. Palmer the chenille forward to just behind the cone and tie it off; trim the excess.
  6. Stroke the excess fibers back, take a couple of wraps behind the cone, and whip finish.

Tying videos

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