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Higa's Tactical SOS

Nymph · Trout · Advanced · 4 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook jig nymph hook, 16-20
  • Thread black 8/0

Materials

  • slotted tungsten bead Silver or black bead (1 (sized to hook))
  • pheasant tail fibers Natural pheasant tail fibers (3-4)
  • wire Silver wire (small, one strand)
  • floss Red floss (one strand)
  • possum or synthetic dubbing Black dubbing (pinch)
  • Krystal Flash Pearl flashabou (2 strands)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a slotted tungsten bead onto the jig hook small hole first and seat it behind the eye. Start black thread just behind the bead.
  2. Catch in 3-4 pheasant tail fibers at the bend for the tail, one hook-gap long.
  3. Bind in the silver wire along the far side and a strand of red floss on top, leaving both hanging at the bend.
  4. Build a slim thread abdomen forward to the 70% mark. Keep it thin, half the bulk you think.
  5. Counter-wrap the wire forward in 5-6 evenly spaced turns for segmentation, then helicopter it off.
  6. Dub a small ball of black dubbing for the thorax up to the bead.
  7. Pull the red floss forward over the thorax as a wingcase and bind behind the bead. Lay two short strands of pearl Krystal Flash over the top as a sighter/gill flash, snipped to bead length.
  8. Whip finish behind the bead and add a drop of cement.

Other versions

3 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2, Nymph.

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