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Pancora-Beadhead

Streamer · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Stout streamer / wide-gap hook, 4-8
  • Thread Brown or olive 6/0

Materials

  • Bead or lead dumbbell eyes Gold / black / plated dumbbell eyes (1)
  • Rabbit strip or marabou (claws) Brown / olive rabbit strip or marabou (2 short pieces)
  • Rubber legs Barred brown rubber legs (2-3 pairs)
  • Dubbing or cross-cut rabbit (body) Brown / olive dubbing or cross cut rabbit (1 length)
  • Thin Skin / Scud Back (carapace) Mottled brown thin skin (1 strip)
  • Wire (rib) Copper wire (1 length)

How to tie it

  1. Add weight at the head, either a bead at the eye or dumbbell eyes lashed on top so the fly rides hook-up; start the thread.
  2. At the bend tie in two short rabbit-strip or marabou claws, splayed in a V, each about one shank length, with a couple of rubber legs between them.
  3. Tie in a strip of Thin Skin for the carapace and a copper rib, both pointing to the rear.
  4. Dub a fat, buggy body (or palmer cross-cut rabbit) forward to the head, adding a pair of rubber legs on each side as you go.
  5. Pull the Thin Skin carapace over the top and rib the copper wire forward over it in 4-5 evenly spaced turns to segment the shell; tie off and break off the wire.
  6. Build a head around the weight, whip finish and add a drop of cement.

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