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Lil Foamy

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

AvidMax dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 2488H, 18
  • Thread Olive Nano Silk 18/0

Materials

  • Bead Hareline Mottled Tungsten Bead 5/64, Olive
  • Tail Olive dyed hungarian partridge
  • Ribbing UTC Ultra Wire Small, Copper
  • Wing Case Fulling Mill Bug Foam, 2mm White
  • Dubbing Collar Hare's Ear Ice Dub, Peacock

How to tie it

  1. Slide a 5/64 olive mottled tungsten bead onto a #18 TMC 2488H, seat it behind the eye, start olive Nano Silk behind the bead, and wrap to the bend.
  2. Tie in a short tail of olive-dyed partridge fibers at the bend.
  3. Tie in a length of small copper wire at the bend.
  4. Tie in a strip of 2mm white foam at the bend to be pulled forward later.
  5. Dub a slim body of peacock Ice Dub forward to just behind the bead.
  6. Spiral the copper wire forward as a rib and tie it off, then helicopter it to break.
  7. Pull the white foam over the top as a wing case/back, tie it down behind the bead, and trim the tag.
  8. Dub a small thorax collar of Ice Dub behind the bead, whip finish, and cement.

Other versions

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