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Pheasant Tail TB

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard nymph, 1XL, 12-18
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Gold tungsten bead (1, sized to hook)
  • Tail / abdomen / wingcase Natural cock pheasant tail (5-6 fibers)
  • Rib Copper thorax stripe (fine wire)
  • Thorax Peacock ice dub (2-3 herls)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold tungsten bead onto the hook, small hole first, and seat it behind the eye. Start the thread behind the bead and lay a base to the bend.
  2. Tie in 5-6 pheasant tail fibers for a tail one shank length long, then bind in the copper wire at the bend.
  3. Twist the pheasant fibers into a rope and wrap the abdomen forward to the 60% mark; tie off.
  4. Counter-wrap the copper rib 5-6 evenly spaced turns and secure.
  5. Tie in a bunch of pheasant fibers as a wingcase pointing rearward, then wrap 2-3 peacock herls into a thorax up to the bead.
  6. Pull the wingcase over the thorax, tie down behind the bead, snip, whip finish and cement.

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