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Libby's Stonefly Golden Flavor

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Long-shank nymph/streamer (TMC 5263), 4-6
  • Thread Yellow 6/0 (140 denier)

Materials

  • Spandex/Life-Flex (small) Ginger spandex life flex (for tails, legs, antennae)
  • Dirty Bug Yarn Mottled golden olive dirty bug yarn (1 length (abdomen))
  • Super Select CDC Khaki (underwing) (several feathers)
  • Cow elk backstrip hair Natural deer hair (1 narrow clump (wing))
  • Super Select CDC + Hare-Tron dubbing Brown olive / ginger super select cdc hare tron dubbing (thorax)
  • Trigger Point fibers UV orange trigger point fibers (1 short tuft (indicator, optional))

How to tie it

  1. Start yellow thread at mid-shank and bind two thin ginger spandex tails at the bend, about one hook-gap long.
  2. Tie in golden-olive Dirty Bug Yarn and wrap a thick, tapering abdomen forward over the back half of the shank all the way down to the tails.
  3. Stack the khaki CDC feathers together and tie in a low underwing reaching just past the bend; nine or so feathers give a size 4 the buoyancy to float.
  4. Lay a narrow clump of natural cow elk hair over the CDC as the overwing, tips to the tail, and trim the butts.
  5. Figure-8 three pairs of ginger spandex legs across the thorax, angling forward and back.
  6. Add an optional UV orange Trigger Point sighter, then dub a beefy thorax from brown-olive CDC spun in a loop with a little ginger Hare-Tron.
  7. Sweep two ginger spandex antennae forward over the eye, form a small head, whip finish, and cement.

Other versions

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