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Pheasant Tail Cadillac-Beadhead

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · 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.

Savage Flies dressing

  • Hook nymph, 12-18
  • Thread Brown

Materials

  • Bead Brass or tungsten bead
  • Tail Pheasant tail fibers
  • Rib Copper wire
  • Body Pheasant tail fibers
  • Thorax Peacock herl
  • Legs CDC hackle

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead to the eye and start thread behind it.
  2. Tie in a pheasant tail tail one half shank long and bind a copper wire and a strand of pearl flash at the base.
  3. Wrap pheasant tail forward to the 60% mark as the body and counter-rib with the wire in 5-6 turns.
  4. Add a few turns of red hot-spot as an accent at the front of the abdomen, then wrap a peacock thorax to the bead.
  5. Pull the pearl flash and then a pheasant-tail wing case forward over the thorax, tie both down behind the bead, and split leftover tips as legs.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead, snip, and add head cement.

Tying videos

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