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Gut Bomb Bloodworm

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: Contested against a published dressing: CONTRADICTS our stored recipe. Two independent published dressings for this named pattern agree with each other and disagree with ours. Source: Fly Fish Food — "Gut Bomb Bloodworm" tying tutorial (Fulling Mill pattern) — https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/nymph-tutorials/gut-bomb-bloodworm

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Curved scud/midge hook, 12-18
  • Thread Red 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Black or silver bead (1 tungsten to size)
  • Body Red buzzer wrap (red wire or Frostbite)
  • Rib/segmentation Red buzzer wrap (built from wire wraps)
  • Thorax Black ostrich herl (peacock or black dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a bead to the eye, mount the hook, and start thread behind it.
  2. Run thread to the bend and tie in a length of red wire.
  3. Optionally lay a thin thread underbody, then wrap the red wire forward in touching turns to just behind the bead for a bright segmented body.
  4. Tie off and helicopter the wire to break it cleanly.
  5. Dub a small dark thorax bump right behind the bead.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead.
  7. Coat the red wire body with thin UV resin for a wet, glassy blood-red glow.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

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