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Pink Hot Spot Jig

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 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 jig hook and lay a thread base.
  2. Tie in a coq de leon tail about one shank length long, then bind in the copper wire.
  3. Wrap a slim dark pheasant tail body forward to just behind the bead area, leaving room for a collar.
  4. Counter-wrap the copper rib 5-6 evenly spaced turns and secure.
  5. Build a bright fluoro-pink hot-spot collar right behind the bead with thread or a touch of Ice Dub.
  6. Whip finish and, if desired, coat the body with thin UV resin for durability.

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