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Paradrake

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

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

Charlie's Fly Box dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 2487, 12
  • Thread Brown Nano Silk 18/0

Materials

  • Tail 15LB Mono and Moose Body Hair
  • Body Olive Elk Rump
  • Wing X-Caddis Deer Hair
  • Hackle Grizzly/Olive Rooster Cape or Saddle

How to tie it

  1. Lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Form the extended deer-hair body: bind a clump of deer hair at the bend, tips extending back, and rib thread forward over it in open spiral wraps to segment a buoyant extended abdomen; split a few moose fibers at the tip as tails.
  3. Bring the deer hair butts forward and stand the tips up at the 60% mark as the post; wrap a front thread dam.
  4. Dub or wrap a short thorax fore and aft of the post.
  5. Tie in the hackle at the post and wind 5-6 turns down the post, then secure.
  6. Sweep the fibers up, whip finish at the eye, and cement the post base.

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