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Micro Stone Fly

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 1XL nymph hook, 14-18
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Goose or turkey biots Brown goose biots (2 for tail)
  • Brown dubbing Brown dubbing (for body)
  • Fine wire Copper wire (1 for rib)
  • Thin skin or turkey Brown thin skin mottled (1 slip for wingcase)
  • Partridge or hen Brown hen hackle (few fibers for legs)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and run thread to the bend.
  2. Tie in two brown biots splayed into a short forked tail, about half a shank long.
  3. Bind in a fine wire rib, then dub a slim brown abdomen forward to the 60% mark.
  4. Counter-rib the wire forward in 5-6 open turns for crisp segmentation and tie off.
  5. Tie in a wingcase slip, add a few soft partridge fibers as legs at the thorax, then dub a fuller thorax and pull the wingcase over and bind.
  6. Build a small head, whip finish, and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Beadhead.

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