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Pheasant Tail Half Flash TB

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.

McFly Angler dressing

  • Hook Firehole sticks 9 in 14, 60
  • Thread Veevus in brown 10/0

Materials

  • Alternative hook recommendation Daiichi #1710
  • Bead Size 3.0mm gold brass bead
  • Weight 015 sized lead wire
  • Ribbing Small sized Gold UTC Wire
  • Tail/Abdomen Pheasant Tail died brown
  • Flash Medium sized Pearl Flat Tinsel
  • Thorax Peacock Hurl
  • Cement Hard as hull head cement

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold tungsten 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 at the base.
  3. Wrap pheasant tail forward to the 65% mark and counter-rib with the copper wire in 5-6 open turns.
  4. Wrap a peacock thorax up to the bead, then tie in a short length of pearl tinsel.
  5. Pull the pearl tinsel forward over only the front half of the thorax as a half wing case and tie it down behind the bead.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead, snip, and add head cement.

Tying videos

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