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Orange Blossom Special

Streamer · Steelhead · Salmon · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Up-eye salmon/steelhead wet hook, 2-6
  • Thread Black 6/0

Materials

  • Oval silver tinsel (tag) Silver oval tinsel (few turns)
  • Golden pheasant crest (tail) Golden yellow pheasant crest (1 feather)
  • Flat and oval tinsel (body / rib) Silver oval tinsel (1 length each)
  • Bucktail (wing) Orange over white (1 sparse bunch each)
  • Hackle (collar) Hot orange hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and lay a short tag of oval silver tinsel at the bend.
  2. Tie in a golden pheasant crest as a tail curving upward.
  3. Tie in the oval rib, then wrap a flat silver tinsel body forward to the 80% mark and rib it with 5 evenly spaced turns of oval tinsel.
  4. Stack and tie in a sparse white bucktail wing, then a hot-orange bucktail wing over it, both reaching to the tail tip.
  5. Wrap a hot-orange hackle collar of two or three turns and sweep the fibers back.
  6. Form a neat black head, whip finish and lacquer.

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