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Micro Craw Slider

Streamer · Trout · Smallmouth Bass · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook Jig or 2XL streamer hook, 8-12
• Thread Brown 6/0

Materials

• Tungsten bead or dumbbell eyes Copper/black dumbbell eyes (1)
• Rabbit or marabou Rusty brown (1 small clump for claws)
• Ice dubbing Brown/orange ice dubbing (for body)
• Rubber legs Brown silly legs nymph size (1-2 pairs)

How to tie it

1. Bead or dumbbell on, hook mounted, thread started and run to the bend.
2. Tie in a short clump of rusty rabbit or marabou at the bend, splayed slightly, to suggest crayfish claws facing back over the hook eye (the fly is fished pincers-trailing).
3. Add a pair of rubber legs at the rear, splayed to the sides.
4. Dub a fat, buggy body of brown-orange ice dubbing forward toward the bead, tapering up.
5. Add a second pair of rubber legs at the thorax, then build up dubbing to the bead.
6. Whip finish behind the bead and cement.

Other versions

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

Tying videos

• Micro Craw Slider — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Micro Craw Slider — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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