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Koichi's Snowshoe Spruce Moth

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook (MFC 7000 / Tiemco 100), #12-14, #12-14
  • Thread Cream 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

  • Body Caddis-tan dubbing (MFC Frog Hair / tan Antron) (pinch)
  • Wing Natural cream snowshoe rabbit foot hair (1 clump)
  • Hackle Cream (light ginger) rooster (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Start the cream thread behind the eye and run a smooth base to the bend.
  2. Dub a slim, fuzzy caddis-tan body forward from the bend to about the 70% point.
  3. Clean and stack a clump of natural cream snowshoe rabbit foot hair and tie it in as a low, tent-style downwing over the body, tips reaching to about the hook bend; trim the butts. (Snowshoe hare floats high and needs no floatant.)
  4. Tie in a cream rooster hackle in front of the wing.
  5. Wrap the cream hackle 4-6 turns through the front third of the fly and tie off behind the eye.
  6. Build a small thread head, whip finish and cement. Optionally trim the hackle flat underneath so the fly sits flush in the film.

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