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Lemon Lime Chironomid Pupa

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Tyer Recipe

  • Hook Curved scud/pupa hook (e.g. TMC 2457), 12-14
  • Thread Fluorescent Chartreuse 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Chartreuse (or black) bead (1, sized to hook)
  • Para Post / Antron White poly yarn (small clump (gills/breathers))
  • Uni-Flex Clear/olive uni flex (1 strand (body))
  • Holographic tinsel Red/Cranberry (small, 1 strand (rib))
  • UV resin Clear uv resin (thin coat (body))
  • Ice Dub UV shrimp pink (pinch (thorax/wing buds))

How to tie it

  1. Slide a chartreuse bead onto a #14 curved pupa hook and start the fluorescent chartreuse thread in front of the bead.
  2. Tie in a small clump of white Para Post in front of the bead as gills, set it perpendicular, and trim to about a bead-length on each side; whip finish the gills and snug the bead back against them.
  3. Restart the thread behind the bead and wrap to the bend; tie in a strand of Uni-Flex at the bend, trimming the tip under tension to keep the butt slim.
  4. Tie in a length of small red holographic tinsel at the bend.
  5. Build a slightly tapered thread underbody up the shank, then spiral the red tinsel forward as an evenly spaced rib and tie it off behind the bead.
  6. Wrap the Uni-Flex forward, tight on the first turns so the red shows through and easing off toward the front to keep the taper; tie off behind the bead.
  7. Coat the whole body top and bottom with a thin layer of UV resin, work it smooth, and cure it.
  8. Dub a small thorax collar of UV shrimp-pink Ice Dub behind the bead, tied in the round to suggest wing buds.
  9. Whip finish and trim.

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