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Harrop's CDC Biot

Dry Fly · Emerger · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Tiemco 100 / Firehole Sticks 419 standard dry-fly hook, #16-22
  • Thread Olive 12/0 (Veevus)

Materials

  • Thread Olive Veevus 12/0 (1 spool)
  • Tail Medium dun Microfibetts (split), or lemon wood-duck fibers (2 fibers / small clump)
  • Abdomen BWO-olive-dyed turkey biot (1 biot)
  • Wing 2 natural dun CDC feathers (2 feathers)
  • Thorax BWO olive Superfine dubbing (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend. Tie in two medium-dun Microfibetts split into a V (a tiny ball of dubbing at the bend helps splay them), each about one shank length long.
  2. Tie in one olive-dyed turkey biot at the tail, notch up, and wrap forward in touching turns to the 65% point for a slim, segmented, tapered abdomen.
  3. Stack two dun CDC feathers tip-to-tip and tie them in upright at the 65% point as a single bunched wing about one shank length tall. This CDC wing replaces hackle for flotation, making it a 'no-hackle' dun.
  4. Dub a sparse BWO Superfine thorax, figure-eighting it around and in front of the wing to lock the wing upright.
  5. Whip finish behind the eye and cement the thread only.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Dun Trico.

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