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Micro Larva

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

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  • Hook Scud/emerger hook (here a Dai-Riki 135, 22
  • Thread Veevus, black 16/0

Materials

  • Bead Black opaque glass bead, midge size
  • Body Rabbit-fur dubbing, light olive

How to tie it

  1. Mash the barb, drag the scud hook through the Black opaque glass beads until one catches, push it forward to the eye and clamp the hook in the vise. Plunger-style hackle pliers make handling a hook this small much easier.
  2. Start the thread behind the bead, take a few wraps rearward and snip or break off the tag.
  3. Take the smallest pinch of light olive Rabbit-fur dubbing and twist a noodle as thin as you can, barely more than colouring the thread.
  4. Begin wrapping well down into the bend. After one full turn, pinch the thread and give the bobbin a hard clockwise spin; this cords the thread and twists the dubbing into a rope, and the corded rope wraps up into a slender, faintly segmented body.
  5. Wrap forward to the bead, take a few extra thread turns, spin the bobbin counterclockwise to uncord the thread, then a four or five turn whip finish; seat it and snip the thread.
  6. Snip any truly wild hairs close, particularly on the back, but leave the underside alone so the fibers read as legs and gills.

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