Crystal Flash (tail highlight) Olive crinkle flash fine (1 strand doubled to make two)
Holographic tinsel, small (body) Green holographic tinsel (1 length)
Saddle hackle, small (size 18) Olive or dark olive saddle hackle small (1 feather)
Copper wire, fine (rib) Copper wire (1 length)
UV resin or head cement (body coat) Clear uv resin (1 dab)
How to tie it
Slide a 7/64 inch gold tungsten bead onto a size 16 2X-long curved nymph hook and push it up to the eye. Start olive 8/0 thread and lay a base layer, trimming the excess.
Take about ten fibers of moss green marabou, keep the tail small, and tie them in at the bend so the tail is one shank length. Take a turn around the base behind the tail, then wrap forward over the butts; anything left will be covered by the body.
Fold one strand of olive Crystal Flash over the thread so you get two on each side, tie it in evenly along the tail, and trim it to tail length.
Tie in the small green holographic tinsel just behind the bead and bind it back along the shank to the tail.
Bring the thread back up near the bead and tie in the fine copper wire, binding it back down the body too.
Return the thread to the bead, then wrap the holographic tinsel forward in even touching turns to form the body. Tie it off behind the bead and trim.
Coat the tinsel body with a dab of UV resin or head cement and spread it around with a bodkin. This makes the body much more durable and helps the hackle last.
Tie in the small olive saddle hackle just behind the bead. Take a couple of turns at the head, then palmer it backward down the body with four or five open turns to the tail.
Catch the palmered hackle with the copper wire at the tail and counter-wrap the wire forward through the hackle to the bead, locking it in. Tie off behind the bead and helicopter the wire off.
Give the hackle a quick trim to tidy the body, keeping the front hackle slightly swept back. Two or three whip finishes right at the bead will flare the front fibers back. Cut the thread; head cement is optional.