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Lemon Lime Bugger

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Largemouth Bass · Pike · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook 3XL streamer, down eye, 6-10
• Thread Chartreuse 6/0 (140 denier)

Materials

• Marabou Chartreuse marabou (1 plume (tail))
• Chenille Yellow chenille (1 strand (body))
• Saddle hackle Grizzly or chartreuse saddle hackle (1 feather)
• Wire rib Gold wire (6 in)
• Bead Gold bead (1 (optional))
• Lead wire Natural lead wire (8-10 turns (optional))

How to tie it

1. If weighting, slide a gold bead to the eye, wrap 8-10 turns of lead wire over the middle of the shank, and shove them back against the bead.
2. Start thread behind the lead and bind a chartreuse marabou tail one shank length long at the bend; keep it thin.
3. Tie in the gold wire and a hackle by its tip at the tail base.
4. Tie in yellow chenille, strip the fibers off the tie-in end, and wrap it forward in touching turns to just behind the bead.
5. Palmer the hackle forward in 5-6 evenly spaced turns and tie it off behind the bead.
6. Counter-wrap the gold wire forward through the hackle in the opposite direction to lock it, wiggling side to side so it doesn't trap fibers; helicopter off the excess.
7. Build a small collar, whip finish behind the bead, and cement.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

• Lemon Lime Bugger — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Lemon Lime Bugger — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Lemon Lime Bugger — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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