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Hangin

Nymph · Midge · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook TMC 100 (down-eye dry fly), 20
  • Thread Gray 30 denier (nano silk)

Materials

  • Goose biot Natural/light (Canada goose) (1 biot for abdomen)
  • Zap-a-gap - (tiny amount)
  • Superfine dubbing Adams gray (small pinch for thorax)
  • CDC feather White cdc (1 feather for wing)
  • Rooster hackle Grizzly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Place the down-eye size 20 hook in the vise, start nano silk at the eye, and wrap back to the bend.
  2. Tie in a goose biot at the bend by its tip, leaving the fine tip extending to where the body will end so the notch forms a dark rib edge.
  3. Smear a tiny bit of Zap-a-gap along the shank, then wrap the biot forward in 4-5 overlapping turns to just short of the eye, creating a segmented body with a dark rib on the trailing edge; bring the thread behind the biot, catch it with a couple of turns, and trim the butt.
  4. Dub a small pinch of Adams gray superfine onto the thread and build a small dubbing ball/thorax, leaving about one and a half eye-lengths of bare shank behind the eye.
  5. Tie in a white CDC feather at the front with the tips pointing forward over the eye, then pull it back to about a shank length long and wrap back to the front edge of the dubbing ball, leaving the wing hanging forward.
  6. Tie in a grizzly hackle just in front of the dubbing ball and make two or three turns; tie off and trim the feather.
  7. Lift the CDC wing and take a few thread turns in front of it to stand it up off the hook eye.
  8. Whip finish, trim the thread, and trim the CDC butts into a short tuft just beyond the wing.

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