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Limeade

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard beadhead nymph hook, 14-16
  • Thread White (gel spun) GSP

Materials

  • Bead Gold bead
  • Saddle hackle fibers (tail clump)
  • Ultra wire Chartreuse ultra wire (small)
  • Ice dub Golden brown ice dub (abdomen blend)
  • Hare's ear dubbing Caddis green (abdomen blend)
  • Pheasant tail fibers Natural pheasant tail fibers (7-8)
  • Ice dub UV pearl ice dub (thorax)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead onto the hook and start white gel-spun thread.
  2. Tie in a clump of saddle hackle fibers for the tail, wet to keep them straight, and adjust to length; wrap the thread forward to lock the butts, then back to the bend.
  3. Tie in a length of small chartreuse ultra wire at the bend.
  4. Spin a blend of golden brown ice dub and caddis green hare's ear dubbing onto the thread and wrap forward to build a tapered abdomen.
  5. Counter-wrap the chartreuse wire forward in even spirals for segmentation; tie off at the front and helicopter or break off the excess.
  6. Tie in 7-8 natural pheasant-tail fibers (evened and wet) on top as the wing case, pointing rearward; return the thread about a third of the way back.
  7. Dub a thorax of UV pearl ice dub, building it to not quite halfway back from the bead.
  8. Pull the pheasant-tail wing case forward over the thorax and secure it with a couple of wraps behind and a couple in front; trim the excess square.
  9. Take a few loose wraps over the stray fibers and pull them tight so they slide down under the bead out of sight, then whip finish.

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