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PMX Royal

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Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

InTheRiffle dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 5212, 4-12
  • Thread Black UNI 6/0

Materials

  • Tail Deer Hair or Elk Hair
  • Body Red UNI Single Strand Floss
  • Wing Deer Hair or Elk Hair
  • Thorax Peacock herl
  • Legs Natural Medium Grizzly Barred Rubber Legs
  • Wing Post White mcflylon
  • Hackle Grizzly or Brown Whiting High and Dry Rooster Cape

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread and tie in a short elk-hair tail, about half a shank long.
  2. Build a royal-style body: wrap a peacock herl butt, then a band of red floss, then a second peacock herl segment, ending at the 65% mark.
  3. Stand a white calf-hair post upright at the 65% mark and lock its base.
  4. Tie in the grizzly hackle at the base of the post.
  5. Tie in an elk-hair overwing slanting forward, Trude style, to the tail.
  6. Wind the hackle parachute-style 4-6 turns around the post and tie off.
  7. Figure-8 a pair of rubber legs to each side, whip finish and cement.

Tying videos

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