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Jumbo John-Beadhead

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Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

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  • Hook Nymph hook, 10
  • Thread Black 70D

Materials

  • BEAD 3.2mm fluo.orange
  • TAIL Brown goose biots
  • ABDOMEN Medium gold and copper ultra wire
  • THORAX Canadian Orange Arizona semi-seal
  • LEGS Speckled hot orange centipede legs
  • WING CASE Flash and brown scud-back, topped with UV resin

How to tie it

  1. Seat the gold tungsten bead at the eye, then wrap 10-12 turns of.020 lead behind it and shove them into the back of the bead to lock it. This is a scaled-up Copper John built as a golden stone.
  2. Start thread and tie in two brown goose biots at the bend, splayed into a short V-tail.
  3. Tie in one amber and one black wire strand at the bend. Wrap them forward together as a two-tone segmented abdomen to the 60% mark; tie off and helicopter the wire to break it.
  4. Over the top, tie in a strip of Thin Skin and a strand of peacock/orange Mylar for the flashback, both pointing rearward for now.
  5. Dub a thick brown-stone thorax noodle forward over the front third, stopping short of the bead.
  6. Figure-8 a pair of barred rubber legs on each side of the thorax so they splay out; trim to a shank length.
  7. Pull the Mylar flashback forward over the thorax, then the Thin Skin wing case over that, and tie both down behind the bead.
  8. Wrap a speckled hen saddle as a soft collar between thorax and bead, 1-2 turns, and sweep the fibers back.
  9. Whip finish behind the bead and add a drop of head cement; a coat of UV resin over the wing case adds durability.

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