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Medusa PMD Emerger

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook curved scud/emerger hook, 14-18
  • Thread pale yellow/olive 70 denier

Materials

  • Zelon shuck Amber zelon or antron (short tail)
  • Dry-fly dubbing PMD/pale olive (body)
  • Sculpin wool Cream sculpin wool (wing post)
  • Ripple Ice Hair Pearl anti static bag strip (few fibers)
  • Ice Dub Pearl ice dub (thorax)
  • CDC feathers Dun/grey cdc feathers (1-2 (parachute hackle))

How to tie it

  1. Tie in a short amber Zelon trailing shuck at the bend, half a shank long, to imitate the nymphal husk.
  2. Dub a slim, tapered PMD-olive body forward over the rear two-thirds of the shank.
  3. At the 70% mark stand up a short post of cream sculpin wool with a few pearl Ripple Ice Hair fibers.
  4. Touch-dub a little pearl Ice Dub at the wing base for a gassy thorax.
  5. Wind one or two dun CDC feathers parachute-style around the post, 3-4 turns.
  6. Whip finish at the wing base and add a pinprick of cement clear of the CDC.

Other versions

2 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2.

Tying videos

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