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Prince Nymph Rubbber Legs-Beadhead

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · Advanced · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2XL nymph hook, 10-14
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Bead Gold bead (1, sized to hook)
  • Goose biots (tail) Brown goose biots (2)
  • Peacock herl Natural peacock herl (4 strands)
  • Flat tinsel (rib) Gold oval tinsel (1 length)
  • Round rubber legs White or barred rubber legs (2 strands)
  • Goose biots (wing) White goose biots (2)
  • Hen hackle (collar) Brown hen hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

  1. Seat the gold bead at the eye and start the thread behind it.
  2. Tie in two brown goose biots at the 75% mark, splayed past the bend.
  3. Bind in a gold tinsel rib and 4 peacock herls; rope the herl and wrap a full body to the 70% mark, leaving room for a thorax; tie off the herl but leave the tinsel.
  4. Counter-rib the tinsel forward over the abdomen, tie off at 70%, snip.
  5. Figure-8 one strand of rubber leg on each side of the shank just behind the bead so a pair of legs kicks off each side.
  6. Add a few more turns of peacock herl through and in front of the legs to build a thorax; tie off behind the bead.
  7. Take 2 turns of brown hen hackle for a collar, then lay two white goose biots flat as a V-wing over the body; bind at the bead and trim.
  8. Whip finish, cement.

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