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Para. X

Dry Fly · Terrestrial · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook 2XL dry-fly hook, 8-14
• Thread tan 6/0

Materials

• Deer hair (tail and body) Natural deer hair (2 clumps)
• Round rubber legs White rubber legs small (2 pairs)
• Poly yarn (post) White poly yarn (small tuft)
• Dry-fly hackle Grizzly hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Lay a thread base to the bend and tie in a short deer-hair tail, about half a shank long.
2. Tie in a bundle of deer hair by the tips at the bend, tips rearward, and lay the butts forward out of the way.
3. Wrap the thread forward to the 70% mark, then pull the deer hair over the top and bind it down at 70% to form a segmented body.
4. Tie in an upright white post at 70% and collar its base to stand it up.
5. Tie a grizzly hackle in at the post, then bind a pair of white rubber legs on each side of the body in a splayed X.
6. Wind the hackle parachute-style around the post in 4-6 turns and tie off against the post.
7. Whip finish at the eye and add a drop of cement, keeping it off the hackle.

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