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Poly Prince-Beadhead

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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 3761, 8-18
  • Thread Red Veevus 8/0

Materials

  • Bead 5/64" to 7/64" Gold Cyclops Bead
  • Weight 020 or .025 Lead Wire
  • Tail Brown goose biots
  • Ribbing Small or Medium Silver Tinsel
  • Body Peacock herl
  • Collar Brown India Hen Back or Natural Partridge
  • Wings White goose biots

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead to the eye and start thread behind it.
  2. Tie in two brown goose biots at the bend, splayed into a short forked tail about one-third shank past the bend.
  3. Catch in gold oval tinsel and 3-4 strands of peacock herl.
  4. Twist the herl into a rope and wrap a full body up to the bead, then tie off.
  5. Counter-wrap the tinsel forward in 4-5 open turns and secure.
  6. Wrap a soft brown hen hackle collar behind the bead and sweep the fibres back.
  7. Tie a small clump of white poly yarn flat across the top as two swept-back wings, splitting them into a shallow V, and trim to about shank length.
  8. Whip finish behind the bead and cement.

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