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Rfsn Variation

Nymph · Trout · Advanced · 2 versions

Reference Recipe

• Hook 1XL-2XL nymph, 8-14
• Thread Black or orange 6/0

Materials

• Bead Gold bead (1, sized to hook)
• Lead wire - (few turns (optional))
• Tail Fox squirrel back hair (small tuft)
• Rear body dubbing Fox squirrel belly (creamy-tan) (as needed)
• Thorax dubbing Fox squirrel back (dark) (as needed)
• Rib Gold oval tinsel or wire (1 length)
• Soft hackle Brown partridge or hen (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Slide a gold bead to the eye and add a few turns of lead behind it for weight; start thread.
2. Tie in a small tuft of fox squirrel back hair as a tail, half a shank long, at the bend.
3. Catch in a length of gold oval tinsel or wire for the rib.
4. Dub the rear half of the body with creamy-tan fox squirrel belly fur; dub the front half (thorax) with darker fox squirrel back fur, leaving it shaggy.
5. Rib the whole body forward with 4-5 open turns of tinsel and tie off.
6. Wrap one turn of brown partridge or hen soft hackle at the front for legs and sweep it back; for a hot-spot variation, build a short orange thread collar behind the bead.
7. Whip finish and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

Tying videos

• Rfsn Variation — Fly Fish Food (YouTube)
• Rfsn Variation — Fly Fish Food (Fly Fish Food (tutorial))

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