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Lancer Damsel Weighted

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Classic Recipe

  • Hook Heavy nymph/wet hook, barbless (Fulling Mill 35005 Heavyweight Champ), #10-12, #10-12
  • Thread Medium olive 8/0 (70 denier)

Materials

  • Bead Gold (or black) tungsten bead sized to hook (approx 3.3-3.8 mm) (1)
  • Tail Olive grizzly marabou (or olive black-barred marabou) (small clump)
  • Abdomen Olive ringneck pheasant tail fibers (4-6 fibers)
  • Rib Gold (or amber) small Ultra Wire (1 strand)
  • Wing case Olive Thin Skin, coated with UV resin (1 strip)
  • Thorax Pheasant Tail Ice Dub (pinch)
  • Hot spot UV Shrimp Pink Ice Dub (small pinch)
  • Legs Olive-dyed partridge (1 feather / few fibers)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold tungsten bead onto the hook and up to the eye. Start the olive thread behind the bead and build a small thread dam to hold it forward.
  2. Run the thread to the bend and tie in a short clump of olive grizzly marabou for the tail, no longer than half the shank.
  3. At the bend tie in a strand of gold wire, then tie in 4-6 olive pheasant tail fibers by their tips.
  4. Wrap the pheasant tail forward to just behind the bead to form the abdomen; tie off.
  5. Counter-rib the gold wire forward in 5-6 evenly spaced turns and helicopter off the excess.
  6. Tie in a strip of olive Thin Skin behind the bead for the wing case, pointing forward.
  7. Dub a short thorax of Pheasant Tail Ice Dub behind the bead. Tie in a few olive partridge fibers each side as legs, sweeping back to the hook point.
  8. Pull the Thin Skin wing case back over the thorax and tie down behind the bead; add a small pinch of UV Shrimp Pink Ice Dub right behind the bead as a hot-spot collar.
  9. Whip finish behind the bead and cement. Coat the Thin Skin wing case with a thin layer of UV resin and cure.

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