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Red Squirrel Rubber Legs-Beadhead

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook 2xl-3xl nymph, gold bead, 8-14
  • Thread Orange 6/0 (140 denier)

Materials

  • Gold bead Gold bead (1)
  • Red fox squirrel back guard hairs Rusty (tail)
  • Red fox squirrel belly dubbing Rusty tan (abdomen)
  • Ultra wire Gold wire (rib)
  • Barred rubber legs Brown/black rubber legs (2 pairs)
  • Red fox squirrel back dubbing Darker/spiky (thorax)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead to the eye and start thread at the bend.
  2. Tie in a small clump of squirrel back guard hairs as a tail, half a shank long, plus a length of gold wire.
  3. Dub a rusty squirrel-belly abdomen to the 55% mark, then rib it with 4-5 turns of gold wire and tie off.
  4. Pinch a pair of barred rubber legs onto each side at the thorax with figure-8s, two per side.
  5. Dub a spiky squirrel-back thorax around and through the legs up to the bead.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead, trim the legs to about one shank each, and cement.

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