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Humungus Martini Cat

Dry Fly · Streamer · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL streamer/lure hook, 8-10
  • Thread White 140 denier

Materials

  • Tungsten or brass bead (or bead-chain eyes) Silver bead chain eyes medium (1, sized to hook)
  • Marabou plume (tail) White marabou (1 plume)
  • Flash (tail) Pearl/silver flashabou (4-6 strands)
  • Holographic fritz / cactus chenille (body) Silver flashabou (1 length)
  • Cock or grizzle hackle (palmer) White/grizzle (1 feather)
  • Dubbing or thread hotspot (collar) Chartreuse ice dub (pinch)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the bead to the eye, start the thread behind it and lay a smooth thread base back to the bend.
  2. Tie in a plume of white marabou at the bend for the tail, one to one-and-a-half shank lengths long, and add 4-6 strands of pearl/silver flash the same length.
  3. At the tail tie in a hackle by its tip and a length of silver holographic fritz.
  4. Wrap the fritz forward in touching turns to just behind the bead and tie off.
  5. Palmer the hackle forward through the body in 5-6 open, evenly spaced turns; secure behind the bead and snip the surplus.
  6. Dub or wrap a small chartreuse hotspot collar behind the bead, then whip finish and add a drop of head cement.

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