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Orange Blossom

Streamer · Trout · Steelhead · Salmon · Intermediate · 2 versions

Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

Nor-vise (The NEW Norvise Channel) dressing

  • Hook Mustad SL73UBLN-36890
  • Thread Semperfli Nano Silk 12/0

Materials

  • Tail Peacock sword fibres
  • Front body Peacock herl
  • Wings Gray Fox
  • Collar Grizzly soft hen hackle
  • Head Semperfli red Fluoro Brite

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and at the bend form a tag of a few turns of oval silver tinsel followed by a short band of orange floss.
  2. Tie in a golden pheasant crest curving up as the tail with a small bunch of red hackle barbs over it, then form a butt of one turn of black ostrich herl.
  3. Tie in the oval rib, then the embossed silver tinsel, and wrap a smooth flat body forward to the 80% mark; tie off.
  4. Spiral the oval rib forward over the body in 5 evenly spaced turns and tie off.
  5. Tie in a sparse pale tan bucktail wing on top, extending to the tip of the tail.
  6. Wrap an orange hackle as a sparse collar, two or three turns, and sweep the fibers back and down.
  7. Build a neat black head, whip finish and lacquer.

Other versions

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