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Jiggy Jig Mop Fly

Nymph · Intermediate · 1 version

Svenddiesel Recipe

  • Hook Firehole Outdoors 516 jig hook, 14
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Slotted tungsten (1, sized to hook)
  • Body Microfibre chenille mop, cream (1)
  • Collar Dubbing loop, buggy (1 short loop)
  • Thorax Semperfli Ice Dub (1 small pinch)
  • Glue Loctite gel on the shank, Loon thin UV on the whip finish (as needed)

How to tie it

  1. Load a slotted tungsten bead onto a Firehole 516 size 14, do it before the hook goes in the vice and you save yourself a stabbed finger, then mount it.
  2. Start brown thread, secure the bead up at the front, and work back coating the whole shank in thread.
  3. Lay a line of Loctite gel along the top of the shank. Microfibre chenille absorbs everything, superglue included, and that is what holds a mop on.
  4. Snip a cream mop off the mop head and set it onto the glued shank, securing it up at the head and tidying the wraps. Leave an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch clear for the collar.
  5. Spin a dubbing loop for the collar, lay the fibres in loosely, the buggier the better, and add a little more if it looks thin.
  6. Wrap the loop in, a couple of wraps behind and a couple in front, snip the loop off and trim the fibres back so they are not over-long.
  7. Spin a little Semperfli Ice Dub onto the thread and build it into the collar for flash.
  8. Whip finish, run a drop of Loon thin resin along the top over the whip finish, and cure.

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