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Pat's Bread Crust

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Curved nymph / scud hook, 1X-2X short, 12-16
  • Thread Orange 8/0

Materials

  • Orange floss or thread underbody Orange floss (underbody)
  • D-Rib Amber/brown material (body)
  • Ginger rooster hackle (trimmed) Ginger hackle (1, palmered)
  • Grizzly hen hackle Grizzly hackle (1, collar)

How to tie it

  1. Lay a smooth orange underbody from behind the eye to the bend; the hot orange glows through the body and is the whole point of the fly.
  2. Tie in a length of amber/brown D-Rib by its tip at the bend, flat side down.
  3. Wind the D-Rib forward in touching turns to the 75% mark to form a segmented, translucent shell over the orange, and tie off.
  4. Tie in a ginger rooster hackle and palmer it back over the body in open turns, then counter-secure it. Trim the fibers short and ragged to mimic the tattered barbules of a stripped quill.
  5. Tie in a grizzly hen hackle by the tip and take 2 turns as a soft leg collar, sweeping fibers rearward.
  6. Build a small head, whip finish and cement.

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