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Miramichi Cosseboom

Salmon/Steelhead · Wet Fly · Salmon · Intermediate · 1 version

Tyer Recipe

• Hook Up-eye salmon/wet fly hook, 4-8
• Thread Red 6/0

Materials

• Tag Silver metal tape (oval tinsel)
• Body Olive-green material (floss or silk)
• Rib Silver metal tape (oval tinsel)
• Wing Grey polar fibre (grey squirrel tail)
• Collar hackle Lemon yellow (1 hackle)

How to tie it

1. Start thread and wrap a short oval silver tag at the rear.
2. Tie in the silver rib, then build a smooth olive-green floss body forward to behind the eye.
3. Spiral the silver rib forward in 5 even turns and tie off.
4. Tie in a sparse grey squirrel tail wing over the body reaching to the bend.
5. Wind a lemon yellow hackle as a front collar and sweep it back.
6. Build a red thread head, whip finish, and cement.

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