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Llama

Streamer · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 6X-long streamer (Mustad 3665A), 2-8
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Tail Grizzly hackle fibers (small bunch)
  • Rib Flat silver tinsel (1)
  • Body Red floss (4 strands)
  • Wing Woodchuck guard hair with underfur (1 clump)
  • Collar Grizzly hen hackle (1)
  • Eyes Painted, on black thread head (2)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend and tie in a small bunch of grizzly hackle fibers as a tail, about half a shank length long.
  2. Tie in the flat silver tinsel rib at the bend, then the four strands of red floss together.
  3. Wrap the floss forward as a smooth, slightly tapered body, stopping two eye-widths behind the eye, then spiral the tinsel rib forward in 5 evenly spaced turns.
  4. Cut a pencil-thick clump of woodchuck hair, keeping the underfur in. The mottled guard hair and soft underfur breathe like a sculpin. Tie it in as a wing extending one shank length past the bend.
  5. Tie in a grizzly hen hackle by the tip and take 2-3 turns as a collar, sweeping the fibers back.
  6. Build a neat black head, whip finish, cement, and add painted eyes.

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