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Masked Marauder

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Reference Recipe

  • Hook 3x-long stonefly nymph hook with tungsten bead, 8-10
  • Thread Tan 70 denier

Materials

  • Tungsten bead Copper/black tungsten bead (1)
  • Lead wire (weight) Natural lead wire (.020, several wraps)
  • Biots (tails) Pale yellow (golden stone) (2)
  • Holographic tinsel, medium (back & wing-case flash) Copper flashabou (2 strands)
  • Sewing thread (rib) Summer brown (1 length)
  • Arizona synthetic dubbing (body & thorax) Yellow tan arizona synthetic dubbing (as needed)
  • Silly legs, nymph size (legs) Barred pumpkin (2 (four legs))
  • Skinny skin / thin skin (wing case) Natural mottled turkey (1 strip)

How to tie it

  1. Slide the tungsten bead onto the hook, wrap several turns of.020 lead wire on the shank, and push them into the bead. Attach the thread just in front of the lead, then wrap back to the bend.
  2. Tie in two pale-yellow biots at the bend, one on each side, splayed as tails; trim the butts.
  3. Tie in a strand of medium copper holographic tinsel at the bend for the back, and a strand of brown sewing thread for the rib.
  4. Dub a slightly tapered abdomen of yellow-tan Arizona dubbing forward to about two-thirds up the shank.
  5. Pull the copper tinsel forward over the top of the abdomen and secure it, then counter-wrap the brown thread rib forward in evenly spaced turns and tie off.
  6. Dub the thorax with the same yellow-tan dubbing up toward the bead, stopping in the middle of the thorax and building a small thread band.
  7. Tie in barred pumpkin silly legs at that band, one strand each side (four legs total), then dub over the tie-in to splay the legs apart.
  8. Cut a strip of skinny skin slightly wider than the bead, notch a V in one end, and tie it in behind the bead for the wing case; tie a strand of holographic tinsel down its center.
  9. Whip finish behind the bead, reattach the thread in front of the bead, pull the skinny skin forward over the bead and secure, pull the center tinsel over the wing case and secure, then whip finish and add cement.

Other versions

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