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Pink Hot Spot Jig B/L

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Barbless jig nymph hook, 60-degree, 12-18
  • Thread Brown or black 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Copper/black slotted tungsten (1, sized to hook)
  • Tail Coq de Leon (6-8 fibers)
  • Body Pheasant tail or dark (5-6 fibers)
  • Rib Copper thorax stripe (fine wire)
  • Hot-spot collar Fluoro pink mono (thread or Ice Dub, thin)
  • Coating Clear head cement (thin UV resin (optional))

How to tie it

  1. Seat a slotted tungsten bead behind the eye on the barbless jig hook and lay a thread base.
  2. Tie in a coq de leon tail one shank length long and bind in the copper wire.
  3. Wrap a slim dark pheasant tail body forward, leaving room behind the bead for a collar.
  4. Counter-wrap the copper rib 5-6 evenly spaced turns and secure.
  5. Build a fluoro-pink hot-spot collar right behind the bead.
  6. Whip finish and optionally coat the body with thin UV resin.

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