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Hunchback Green Drake

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL curved nymph hook, 10-12
  • Thread Olive 70 denier

Materials

  • Lead-free wire (weight) (8-10 turns)
  • Pheasant tail fibers (tail) Olive pheasant tail fibers (3 fibers)
  • Copper wire (rib) Copper wire (1 length)
  • Mottled turkey tail (shellback/wingcase) Golden-brown wing slip (1 section)
  • Nymph dubbing (abdomen & thorax) Olive-brown fine dubbing (pinch)
  • Hungarian partridge (legs) Natural partridge (few fibers)

How to tie it

  1. Wrap 8-10 turns of lead-free wire over the middle of the shank, start the olive thread and lock the wraps down.
  2. Tie in 3 pheasant tail fibers at the bend for a short tail, about half a shank long.
  3. Tie in the copper wire rib and lay a wide section of mottled turkey along the top for the shellback.
  4. Dub a tapered olive-brown abdomen forward to the 60% mark.
  5. Counter-wrap the copper rib forward in 5 evenly spaced turns, then helicopter it to break off the tag.
  6. Dub a fuller thorax, then pull the turkey over the top as a humped wingcase and bind it behind the eye. That raised hump gives the fly its hunched back.
  7. Fold a few partridge fibers to each side as legs, dub a small head, whip finish and coat the wingcase with UV resin or head cement.

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