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Hot Spot Nymph

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Classic Recipe

  • Hook Jig or standard nymph hook, Hanak 450BL / Tiemco 3761, #14-18, #14-18
  • Thread Brown (with a fl. orange or pink hot-spot collar) 8/0 / 70 denier

Materials

  • Hook Jig or nymph hook, Hanak 450BL or Tiemco 3761, #14-18 (1)
  • Bead Gold slotted tungsten bead (or brass), 2.4-2.8mm (1)
  • Thread Brown UTC 70 denier (-)
  • Tail Cock pheasant tail fibers (3-4 fibers)
  • Abdomen Cock pheasant tail fibers wrapped, ribbed with wire (5-6 fibers)
  • Rib Fine copper wire (1 strand)
  • Thorax Peacock herl (or peacock Ice Dub) (2 herls)
  • Hot spot / collar Fluorescent orange (or fl. pink / chartreuse) thread or Ice Dub, small collar behind the bead (-)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead to the eye. Start brown thread behind the bead and wrap to the bend.
  2. Tie in 3-4 pheasant tail fibers at the bend for a tail about half a shank-length long, and catch in a strand of fine copper wire.
  3. Tie in 5-6 pheasant tail fibers by the tips, wrap them forward as the abdomen to about the 60% point and tie off.
  4. Counter-rib the abdomen with 4-5 open turns of copper wire to reinforce the pheasant tail, then helicopter off the excess.
  5. Tie in 2 strands of peacock herl and wrap a small thorax up to just short of the bead.
  6. Build a bright hot-spot collar directly behind the bead with a few wraps of fl. orange thread (or a tiny pinch of fl. orange Ice Dub). This bright band is the whole point of the fly.
  7. Whip finish and add a drop of cement.

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