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Low Water Baetis

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, barbless (TMC 100 SP-BL), 16 (range 14-20)
  • Thread Light olive 14/0

Materials

  • Tailing fibers (Microfibbets) Olive tailing fibers (4 fibers)
  • Goose biot (abdomen) Olive goose biot (1)
  • UV resin (body coat) Clear uv resin (thin coat)
  • UV frog's hair dubbing (thorax) Olive ice dub (small pinch)
  • CDC feathers (wing) Natural dark dun cdc feathers (2)
  • Dry-fly saddle hackle Grizzly hackle (1)

How to tie it

  1. Secure the hook, start the light olive thread behind the eye, and trim the tag.
  2. Tie in four olive tailing fibers one body-length long, wrap back to the bend, then bring the thread under and between the fibers to split and splay them; return the thread forward and trim the butts.
  3. Tie in an olive goose biot by the tip at the bend with the translucent edge facing up, and add a touch of UV resin along the shank.
  4. Wrap the biot forward in slightly overlapping turns to build a slim, smooth abdomen ending about two-thirds up the shank; tie off, trim, and cure the resin with a UV light.
  5. Dub a small amount of olive UV frog's hair onto the thread and build a boxy thorax.
  6. Pair two dark dun CDC feathers curve-to-curve with tips even, tie them in as a flat wing about one body-length long extending just past the abdomen, using a pinch-and-loop to keep it flat; trim the butts.
  7. Clean up the thread base at the wing and tie in a grizzly dry-fly hackle.
  8. Take two or three wraps of hackle, keeping fibers reaching just past the hook, then tie off behind the eye and trim.
  9. Whip finish and add a tiny drop of head cement.

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