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Mother Shucker

Dry Fly · Emerger · Midge · Trout · Intermediate · 3 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook Standard dry-fly hook (e.g. TMC 100), 18-22
• Thread Gray 12/0 (50 denier)

Materials

• Razor foam or 1mm sheet foam Gray foam (1 thin strip, hook-gap wide)
• Life-Flex / spandex White uni stretch (1 short length (post))
• Dry-fly hackle Grizzly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Start thread mid-shank and lay a base back toward the bend.
2. Trim a thin gray foam strip to about hook-gap width and bind it on top of the shank at the bend so about one shank length projects back as the foam shuck/body tag.
3. Wrap the thread forward under the foam to the 75% mark and bind the foam down there to form a segmented body section.
4. Tie in a short white spandex post upright at the 75% mark and stand it up with thread turns.
5. Wind a grizzly hackle paraloop-style around the base of the post, 3-4 turns, then secure so it splays flat for flush flotation.
6. Trim the front foam so it stops short of the eye, whip finish behind the eye, and add a tiny drop of cement.

Other versions

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

Tying videos

• Mother Shucker — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Mother Shucker — napp1993 (YouTube)
• Mother Shucker — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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