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Green Lantern

Nymph · Streamer · Midge · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook barbless nymph hook (Togens), 12 (10-14)
  • Thread black 8/0

Materials

  • Pheasant tail fibers Black pheasant tail fibers (tail and beard hackle)
  • Ultra wire Chartreuse ultra wire (1 strand (rib))
  • Vicuna dubbing Black dubbing (body)
  • Glo-Brite floss #12 Fluorescent glo brite floss (head)

How to tie it

  1. Start black thread at the eye and lay a thread base down to where the barb would be, then take the thread back up.
  2. Tie in black pheasant tail fibers for the tail, no longer than a shank length, working from the eye toward the bend so they stay on top of the shank; trim the excess.
  3. Tie in the chartreuse wire for the rib at the bend, keeping it a body length with no lumps.
  4. Dub a slim body of black vicuna dubbing from the bend forward, leaving room at the front for the beard and a large head.
  5. Rib the body forward with the wire in even, open turns; tie it off and helicopter the wire free.
  6. Tie in a beard of black pheasant tail fibers underneath, tips just kissing the hook point; roll them under with your thumbnail and secure.
  7. Take the thread to the eye and wrap Glo-Brite #12 floss to build a prominent fluorescent head, wrapping back over the tag to lock it.
  8. Whip finish behind the head and add cement.

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